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Yes, that's the worst of modern Western culture, the belief that it is superior to any other and you don't even need to hear someone who doesn't share your modern worldviews. The result of such ideas is a culture that will try to destroy everything else and in the end destroy itself.

Dosteovsky was criticized by his contemporaries for propagandizing the political entanglement of the orthodox church and the russian empire. He was condemned for this by non-russian orthodox christians including at least one greek bishop. So even by the standards of his time there was conflict about the political nature of his work.

There's not one "that perspective" in history from which to evaluate anything. The person you're responding to is using modern nomenclature but the problem they're point at is one that was clear to dostoevsky's contemporaries and was raised during his life.

The other products of the same time did criticized them too. Trying to paint the past people as a monolithic mass where everyone loved your hero, simply because you like his book and do not know much of who he really was in the context, is annoying too. Many famous writers are famous because they were political actors first. It was politics that got them famous in the first place. It was also politics that killed their or their opponents lives and careers too.

Also, the good stuff he produced is as much product of the time as the bad stuff. If you can celebrate someone, you should be able to accept also some less adoring evalution.