Yeah, it seems that Dostoyevsky was filtered through Nietzche's
   thinking - and Nietzche's contrariness to the then current
   German ways found amble intellectual Russian food in
   Dostoyevsky, akin to Alan Watts with regards to Zen Buddhism to
   the USA.

   Dostoyevsky's ethos : Nietzche :: Zen Buddhism : Alan Watts
   Russian ethos-as-seen-by-Nietzche : Germany :: Far Eastern
   ethos-as-seen-by-Alan Watts : USA. Or, more simply:
   Nietzche is Alan Watts.

   This would explain both of their respective fanbases, which are
   huge. Interestingly, both of them simplified and sanitized the
   respective ethoses (ethosi'? I dunno plural here) - removing the
   larger respective spirit and REPLACED IT with a very
   individualistic variation of the concepts.

   In short, they each killed one spirit (larger-than-self) and
   replaced it with (self) - each turning Religion into Personal
   Psychology. [and calling it Philosophy].