The conflict and mutual fascination between Russia and the West is a theme that continues in our days, even having a direct influence on the immediate events on the global stage in the early twenty-first century. Dostoevsky portrays in depth this match, marked not only by different traditions, but also by many prejudices. Dostoyevsky's book Russia and the West illuminates the keys of the peculiar historical and spiritual development of Russia has been marking and possibly radicalizing this complex relationship. In this respect the work of Dostoevsky, halfway between thought and the prophetic vision, is one of the most powerful channels to understand the richness of cultural and moral landscape that extends to the present.