Crime and punishment end of the novel summary. Retelling of the novel Crime and Punishment (detailed retelling)
A little about the novel. F.M. Dostoevsky completed the novel in 1866. The author came up with the idea of writing it in 1859 - at that time the writer was serving his sentence in hard labor in the Omsk fortress-prison. At first, the author intended to create a novel-confession, but in the process of writing his plan changed. Dostoevsky wrote to the editor of the Russky Vestnik magazine (where the novel was published for the first time) that this novel had become "a psychological report of one work." "Crime and Punishment" belongs to the literary direction "realism". The genre of the work is defined as a novel, because the images of the characters in the novel are equal and equal, while the author is almost on a par, next to the characters, but does not rise above them.
Part I
Chapter 1
Rodion Raskolnikov (the main character of the novel) is a poor St. Petersburg student. He owes the owner for the apartment, he is hungry because he has not eaten for several days. And he decides to bring Alena Ivanovna, the pawnbroker, a “mortgage”. On the way to her, Raskolnikov is considering some action that he intends to carry out a little later. His visit to the old woman is only a “test”. Raskolnikov first pawns the pawnbroker a silver watch, then promises to bring a cigarette box. All this time, Rodion thinks about how to kill the old woman.
Finally, leaving Alena Ivanovna, the hero goes out into the street and is horrified at the thought of the planned crime, exclaiming:
"What a horror could have crossed my mind!"
He goes to the tavern.
Chapter 2
In the tavern, one of the visitors started talking to Rodion Raskolnikov. The drunkard Marmeladov began to tell the young man about his family, how poor they were, that his daughter Sonya Marmeladova went into prostitution to save her family.
Raskolnikov brings Marmeladov home, where he meets Katerina Ivanovna, the wife of a drunkard. Rodion leaves, leaving unnoticed by the inhabitants of the apartment his last money on the windowsill.
Chapter 3
In the morning, Rodion Raskolnikov, Nastasya, the servant of the mistress of the entire tenement house, hands a letter sent to the hero by his mother, Pulcheria Raskolnikova. She wrote that Dunya (Rodion's sister) was slandered in the Svidrigailov family, for whom the girl served as a governess. Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova humiliated and insulted Dunya when she found out that her husband, Svidrigailov, had fallen in love with a girl.
Luzhin Petr Petrovich, who has a small capital and is 45 years old, was engaged to Dunya, he is much older than Dunya. Luzhin is in a hurry to get married, takes a poor girl so that she will be grateful to him all her life. Rodion's mother informs her son that she and Dunya will soon come to him.
Chapter 4
Raskolnikov does not want Dunya to marry Luzhin. Rodion understands that his sister is making this sacrifice for him. At the same time, Raskolnikov realizes that he, a poor student, cannot help either his sister or his mother in any way. He has no right to forbid his sister to marry the wealthy Luzhin.
Again, Rodion begins to think about his theory of "the right of the strong", he thinks whether he should come to terms with his current position or
"Do something bold?"
Chapter 5
Rodion decides to go to his university friend Razumikhin to borrow some money from a friend. But, having changed his mind, the hero buys himself a piece of cake and a glass of vodka with the last money. From the drunk and eaten he was overwhelmed. Rodion falls asleep in the bushes.
And again he sees an incredibly tragic dream about an old horse slaughtered by peasants. He cries in his sleep. Waking up, Raskolnikov goes to the market near the Haymarket. There he hears how the merchant invites Lizaveta (the sister of the old usurer) to visit him. Lizaveta agrees.
Raskolnikov realizes that he will come to the old woman to kill her, that "everything has been finally decided."
Chapter 6
Raskolnikov thinks about how unfair life is all the time. In the billiard room, he accidentally hears a strange conversation between an officer and a student. These two also argue that such a nonentity as an old pawnbroker has no right to live. They say that it would be good to kill her, and distribute her money to the poor, and thereby save them.
The next day, Rodion begins to prepare for the crime. He takes an ax from the janitor's room, hides it under his coat, and wraps in paper a plank similar in size to a cigarette box. Raskolnikov is about to go to the old pawnbroker again.
Chapter 7
Raskolnikov comes to the pawnbroker, gives her a cigarette box. Alena Ivanovna turns away from him to the window in order to better examine the pawn. Rodion hits her on the head with the butt of an axe. The old woman falls and dies. At this time, the pawnbroker's sister returns. Raskolnikov is extremely frightened, in confusion he kills Lizaveta as well.
He goes to wash the ax and hears that clients have come to the pawnbroker. Rodion froze in fright. The visitors went for the janitor to open the door for them. Raskolnikov runs out onto the stairs, notices an ajar door on the lower floor and hides in an empty apartment.
Part 2
Chapter 1
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Raskolnikov wakes up from a sound sleep. He examines the gizmos taken from the pawnbroker, tries to wash them of blood, in order to hide them later. Nastasya, who is serving the mistress of the house, gives Rodion a summons to the police station.
Arriving there, Raskolnikov finds out that the hostess is demanding payment from him for housing through the police. Rodion writes a receipt, gives it to the warden. After leaving the station, the student hears two policemen discussing the murder of the pawnbroker.
What he heard shocked Raskolnikov so much that he fainted. The people who were at the station at that time decide that the young man is sick and send the young man home. And in his soul he feels "endless solitude and alienation."
Chapter 2
Rodion is tormented by remorse. He is afraid of a search, because he wants to get rid of the old woman's things. Raskolnikov goes to the city, after several unsuccessful attempts, due to the large number of people on the streets, he nevertheless hides the stolen things. Then the student comes to his friend, not knowing why. Razumikhin also decides that his friend is very ill.
Rodion leaves his friend, returns to his apartment. On the way to the house, he almost gets hit by the wheels of a passing stroller. At home, the young man in a delusional state falls into a heavy oblivion, and in the morning he completely loses consciousness.
Chapter 3
Raskolnikov woke up only a few days later. Near him in the room he sees Razumikhin with Nastasya. Rodion was given some money that his mother had sent him. Razumikhin reports that the policeman Zametov came to Raskolnikov, who was very interested in the young man's things. Razumikhin gives a friend new clothes, bought with part of the money sent by his mother.
Dr. Zosimov arrives.
Chapter 4
Zosimov, a medical student, is also a friend of Rodion. He and Razumikhin begin to discuss the murder of the old woman and her sister. Raskolnikov hears from the conversation that the dyer Mikola has been arrested. However, the police have no evidence yet.
Rodion is confused and very worried. Then an unknown decently dressed gentleman comes to him.
Chapter 5
The unknown turns out to be Petr Petrovich Luzhin, who reports that he has found housing for Rodion's mother and sister. Raskolnikov did not like Luzhin very much.
Petr Petrovich tried to present his opinion about the youth to the student, he advocates the priority of personal interest over the public one.
“Yes, from your own theory, it ultimately follows that people can be cut! And you take my beggar sister to rule over her?
- Raskolnikov tells him.
They quarrel, and the student kicks the guest out of the house. Then Rodion, in anger, drives away his friends Zosimov and Razumikhin.
Chapter 6
Arriving at the tavern, Raskolnikov again sees Zametov there. The student discusses the murder of the old woman with the policeman. Telling what he would do in the place of the killer, Rodion almost confesses to his deed. However, Zametov decides that the student is sick and does not believe that Raskolnikov killed the old woman.
Rodion walks through the city, on the bridge he sees that some woman has rushed down from the bridge, committing suicide. The student refuses thoughts of suicide.
Then he comes to the pawnbroker's apartment. There is a renovation going on. Raskolnikov decides to go to Razumikhin. Suddenly he sees a crowd gathered in the distance, goes there.
Chapter 7
Coming closer, Raskolnikov sees that Marmeladov is lying on the sidewalk, who was crushed by a passing carriage. Rodion helps carry the victim home.
In the apartment, the student sees Marmeladov's wife. Katerina Ivanovna is angry with onlookers. This is where Sonya comes in. Her clothes look provocative and out of place here. Marmeladov, dying, asks Sonya and Katerina Ivanovna for forgiveness for everything and dies.
Raskolnikov leaves the family all his money, leaves. He is overtaken by the youngest daughter of the Marmeladov Fields, who asks for Rodion's address. He tells her where he lives and leaves. Rodion comes to Razumikhin, with whom he returns to his closet. Approaching the house, friends see a light in the window of Rodion's apartment. It turned out that it was Raskolnikov's mother and sister who had arrived and were waiting for him. They rush to meet him, but the student loses consciousness.
Part 3
Chapter 1
Waking up from a faint, Rodion asks his relatives and friend not to worry about him. Raskolnikov argues with his sister over Luzhin, demands that Dunya refuse to marry this gentleman. Soon the mother and sister leave for the rooms that Luzhin rented for them.
Razumikhin escorts the women to their new rented apartment. He likes Dunya more and more.
Chapter 2
Razumikhin visits Raskolnikov's sister and mother in the morning. He asks Dunya for forgiveness for the unflattering words about her fiancé. Here they bring a note from Luzhin. In a note, he says that he will visit them soon and wants Rodion not to be there.
Pulcheria Ivanovna tells Razumikhin that, according to Luzhin, her son allegedly became interested in some kind of prostitute. Mother and sister go to Rodion.
Chapter 3
The student is better. Raskolnikov informs his mother and sister about yesterday's incident with Marmeladov, that he gave money to help Katerina Ivanovna. Mother tells about the death of Svidrigailova and about Luzhin's note.
Dunya wants her brother to come in the evening and be present at their meeting with Pyotr Petrovich.
Chapter 4
Sonya comes to Rodion. She asks him to attend Marmeladov's funeral. Raskolnikov introduces her to her sister and mother, who treated the girl with great sympathy. Pulcheria Ivanovna and her sister soon leave. Saying goodbye, Dunya bowed to Sonya, who was very embarrassed because of this.
Raskolnikov really wants to get acquainted with Porfiry Petrovich. Rodion expects to learn from him the details of the investigation into the murder of the pawnbroker.
Sonya goes home. Some gentleman follows her, who follows the girl all the way to her house, even tries to talk to her. It turns out that the gentleman lives next door to Sonya.
Chapter 5
Raskolnikov and Razumikhin together come to Porfiry Petrovich, whose guest was Zametov. The student wanted to know what the police knew, so he asks what needs to be done to claim his rights to the things he has pledged.
- the investigator told the student. Then Porfiry begins to discuss with Rodion a theory that the student recently published in a newspaper.The essence of the theory: all people are divided into extraordinary and ordinary. The extraordinary are allowed much more, they can even commit a crime at the behest of their conscience, if this helps the common good. Rodion explains:
“I only believe in my main idea. It consists precisely in the fact that people, according to the law of nature, are generally divided into two categories: into the lowest (ordinary), that is, so to speak, into the material that serves only for the generation of their own kind, and actually into people, that is, those who have the gift or the talent to say a new word in one's environment.
“... the first category, that is, the material, generally speaking, people are by nature conservative, orderly, live in obedience and love to be obedient. In my opinion, they are obliged to be obedient, because this is their assignment, and there is absolutely nothing humiliating for them here.
Then adds:
“Second category, everyone transgresses the law, destroyers, or is inclined to do so, judging by their abilities. The crimes of these people are, of course, relative and varied; for the most part they demand, in very varied statements, the destruction of the present in the name of the better. But if, for his idea, he needs to even step over a corpse, over blood, then he, in his conscience, can, in my opinion, give himself permission to step over blood - depending, however, on the idea and size her, mind you. It is in this sense alone that I am speaking in my article of their right to commit a crime.”
“And if one of the ordinary people suddenly considers that he is a genius, and even begins to remove all obstacles?”,
asks Porfiry. “There are police and prisons for this,” Raskolnikov replies.
Porfiry Petrovich asks him a question:
"And you would dare to step over?"
"Very likely"
Raskolnikov answers him.
Porfiry guesses that it was Rodion who killed the old woman, invites him to go to the police station. At the same time, Razumikhin remarks in a conversation that a friend came to the old woman three days before the murder, but not on that day. Then the friends leave.
Chapter 6
Saying goodbye to Razumikhin, Raskolnikov went up to his house. He is overtaken by a stranger who throws only one word in Rodion's face: "murderer" and leaves. The young man returns home in confusion, is forgotten in a heavy dream.
In the dream, he tries again and again to kill the pawnbroker who laughs in his face. Alena Ivanovna's apartment is filled with some people who also reproach the student for the murder.
With difficulty waking up after a nightmare, Rodion sees yesterday's stranger on the threshold of his room. This is Svidrigailov Arkady Ivanovich, a landowner who followed Sonya and recently tried to seduce Dunya.
Part 4
Chapter 1
Raskolnikov is not at all happy about Svidrigailov's sudden visit, especially since the landowner has recently compromised Rodion's sister. The hero Svidrigailov is unpleasant.
And in the course of the conversation, the guest suddenly touches on an “otherworldly” topic: he tells in confidence how the dead appeared to him in the form of ghosts several times. And thinks about what will be eternity in the next life:
"What if it's just some smoky bath with spiders."
The young man wants to expel the guest, but he tries to convince the student that he wants to transfer the money left by Svidrigailova to Dunya, promises Rodion ten thousand rubles if Raskolnikov helps the landowner to see the young man's sister. Rodion is indignant and kicks out the guest.
Chapter 2
Raskolnikov, together with his friend Razumikhin, goes to Bakaleev's rooms in the evening to visit Rodion's mother and sister. There they meet Luzhin, who is outraged that the women did not heed his request and called Raskolnikov.
Pyotr Petrovich tries to point out to the bride - in what a disastrous, difficult situation she herself and her relatives are, reproaches the girl. Dunya firmly replies that she cannot, will not choose: a brother or a fiancé.
Pyotr Petrovich mentions Svidrigailov. Dunya and the groom quarrel. As a result, the girl breaks up with Luzhin - she asks him to leave.
Chapter 3
Raskolnikov tells his mother and sister about the visit and about Svidrigailov's proposal. Dunya is afraid, does not want to meet the landowner. However, Pulcheria Ivanovna, together with her daughter, begin to dream about how and for what they can use the 3,000 rubles given to them by Svidrigailova.
Suddenly, Rodion gets up and leaves, instead of saying goodbye, he asks his relatives not to make attempts to see him. He says he will come himself if possible. Razumikhin thinks for the first time that his friend might be the murderer of the pawnbroker. He stays with Dunya and Pulcheria Ivanovna, takes care of them all.
Chapter 4
Having left his relatives, Rodion comes to Sonya Marmeladova, in her miserable closet. There he says to the girl:
“You also crossed. You also ruined your life, although your own - but it's all the same! And your sin was in vain: you never saved anyone! Let's go together. The main thing: to break what is necessary, forever, to take on suffering, and thus gain freedom and power over all trembling creatures.
Sonya, bewildered, replies that her family will simply die without her help. Raskolnikov offers the girl:
"Let's go together. The main thing: to break what is necessary, forever, to take on suffering, and thus gain freedom and power over all trembling creatures.
Then he bows at Sonya's feet and says:
“I didn’t bow to you, I bowed to all human suffering.”
The girl thinks that Rodion has gone mad.
The young man learns from the conversation that she was friends with Lizaveta, even the Gospel to Sonya remained as a memory from the murdered. Raskolnikov asks her to read about the resurrection of Lazarus, then, already leaving, he promises to tell her later who killed Lizaveta.
Svidrigailov listened to this whole conversation through a thin wall, who stopped in the apartment next to Sonya.
Chapter 5
The next day, Raskolnikov comes to Porfiry Petrovich. He turns to the investigator, asks to return the things he left with the murdered old woman. Porfiry Petrovich starts a strange conversation with him, checking the young man. Rodion is nervous, demands either to recognize him as a murderer or innocent.
However, the investigator evades a specific answer, but hints that there is some kind of surprise for Rodion in the next room.
“It is better not to arrest another criminal immediately, but to keep him at large. Then he himself will not withstand the uncertainty and will begin to circle around me, like a butterfly near a candle, and fly right into my mouth. And if you arrest him, he will only be strengthened by this and withdraw into himself.
Raskolnikov screams in hysterics that Porfiry is lying.
“But I know how you went to that apartment later! - he answers. - I have a surprise in the next room. Would you like to see?"
Chapter 6
Nikolai, a dyer from the house where the pawnbroker lived, is brought into the office. Nikolai, having struck everyone present in the investigator's office, suddenly confesses that it was he who killed Alena Ivanovna. Rodion is very surprised and goes home.
Approaching the house, the young man again sees a stranger who recently called him a murderer. The stranger apologizes for accusing Rodion, but today he believed in the innocence of the young man. This tradesman turned out to be the "surprise" that Porfiry Petrovich was preparing for Raskolnikov.
Part 5
Chapter 1
Luzhin considers Raskolnikov the reason for his quarrel with Dunya. He is thinking about how to take revenge on Dunya's brother. Pyotr Petrovich settled with Lebezyatnikov, whom he knew. Lebezyatnikov lives in a neighboring apartment with the Marmeladovs.
Luzhin lays out money on the table, allegedly wanting to count it, then asks a friend to call Sonya here. The landowner apologizes to the girl for not going to the funeral for her father, and gives her 10 rubles to help the family that has lost its breadwinner. Lebezyatnikov thought that his friend was up to something unkind.
Chapter 2
Marmeladov's widow arranged a very good commemoration for her husband. However, very few guests came. Among those who came was Raskolnikov. Katerina Ivanovna began to quarrel with the mistress of the house, Amalia Ivanovna.
The hostess began to reproach the widow for the fact that the poor woman did not invite her “decent” acquaintances to the wake, but invited “anyone”.
In the midst of a quarrel, Luzhin comes to the Marmeladovs.
Chapter 3
The landowner sees a quarrel between women, Raskolnikov among the guests. Luzhin accuses Sonya of stealing in front of everyone: she allegedly stole 100 rubles from him. The girl, in confusion, takes out 10 rubles, which Pyotr Petrovich himself recently gave her.
Katerina Ivanovna assures everyone that her eldest daughter is not a thief, that she could not steal, begins to turn the pockets of the girl's dress inside out. Suddenly, a hundred-ruble bill falls out of his pocket.
Luzhin calls Lebezyatnikov to witness the theft, who begins to understand what kind of adventure his acquaintance dragged him into. And Lebezyatnikov, in front of all the guests, declares that Luzhin himself put 100 rubles in the girl's pocket.
Petr Petrovich is indignant, shouting that he will call the police. The hostess Amalia Ivanovna puts the Marmeladovs out of the house. Raskolnikov tries to explain to the guests what meanness Luzhin has planned, leaves after Sonya.
Chapter 4
Rodion comes to the girl, tells her that he allegedly personally knows Lizaveta's killer. Sonya understands that Rodion killed. The girl asks: why did Raskolnikov commit such a sin, why did he go to kill, since he did not even appropriate the loot.
“What have you done to yourself! Sonya screams. - There is no one more unhappy than you now in the whole world! But how could you, such, decide on this?
Raskolnikov is confused in the explanations: at first he explains that he "was going to help his sister and mother", then that he "wanted to become Napoleon." However, in the end, Rodion himself begins to understand the truth:
“It’s just that I’m proud, envious, angry, vindictive, I didn’t want to work. And I decided to find out: am I a trembling creature or have the right ... ".
Sonya takes pity on him and is ready to follow him to hard labor. Rodion tries to explain his theory of the superman to her, but he begins to get confused in the explanations, realizing himself that his theory is worthless. “What should I do now!” he exclaims in despair. -
“Stand at the crossroads,” says Sonya, “kiss the land that you defiled and say to everyone, out loud: “I killed!” Accept suffering and redeem yourself with it!”
Rodion refuses: “No, I will still fight!” The young man pushes away the cross extended to him by the girl and leaves.
Chapter 5
Lebezyatnikov unexpectedly comes to Sonya, who reports that her mother, Katerina Ivanovna, seems to have gone crazy, that she took her young children out into the street, forcing the children to beg. Sonya and Rodion go to look for her.
On one of the streets, after running after one of the children, Katerina Ivanovna falls dead, her throat bleeding. The woman is carried to Sonya, where the widow dies.
At this time, Dunya sees Svidrigailov, who is trying to give the girl money, but she refuses them. Arkady Ivanovich wants to give the money to the Marmeladovs. And Raskolnikov advises his sister to take a closer look and take a closer look at Razumikhin.
Svidrigailov turns to Raskolnikov, promising to help Sonya and the children with money, and says:
“After all, Katerina Ivanovna was not a harmful louse, like an old pawnbroker”
And winks at the young man. Rodion is literally dumbfounded by these words. And Arkady Ivanovich explains that he heard all the conversations of Rodion with Sonya from behind the wall.
Part 6
Chapter 1
After the funeral of Katerina Ivanovna, Razumikhin comes to Rodion. He tells Raskolnikov that Dunya received some note that greatly agitated her, and Pulcheria Ivanovna fell ill. After the departure of a friend, an investigator suddenly comes to Raskolnikov.
Chapter 2
Porfiry Petrovich again talks for a long time with the young man, says that he does not believe in the guilt of the dyer, but he is sure that Rodion killed him. The investigator advises the student to confess to his deed, although there is no evidence of Raskolnikov's guilt. “So who killed?” Rodion asks in fear. "How did you kill? Porfiry answers. - Yes, you killed, sir, ”then he gives two days to think and leaves.
Chapter 3
In a tavern, Rodion meets Svidrigailov, who begins to talk about his adventures. This young man does not like it at all, he frowns at such dirty stories. However, Svidrigailov notes that Raskolnikov himself is no better - after all, he is a murderer.
Chapter 4
Dunya comes to Arkady Ivanovich, who tells the girl that her brother killed Alena Ivanovna and Lizaveta, promises Dunya to save Rodion if the girl becomes his mistress. She cannot agree to this.
Dunya is trying to get out. However, he discovers that the door is locked. The girl grabs a revolver and, out of fear and desperation, shoots Svidrigailov several times, but misses. Dunya throws the weapon on the floor, crying, asks to let her go.
Arkady Ivanovich opens the door, the girl runs away. And Svidrigailov picks up the revolver and hides it.
Chapter 5
Arkady Ivanovich cannot forget Dunya. In desperation, he wanders from tavern to tavern, then comes to Sonya, whom he tells that he placed the Marmeladov children in the best boarding house, then gives the girl some money and leaves.
He has nightmares at night. He sees a mouse running around the bed, then he dreams of a drowned girl whom he dishonored in his long past, then a teenage girl whom he once ruined.
Svidrigailov hurries to leave the hotel, and later, unable to bear the pangs of conscience, commits suicide by shooting himself with a revolver.
Chapter 6
Raskolnikov confesses to his sister that it was he who killed Lizaveta and the old pawnbroker, that he can no longer endure the pangs of conscience. He says goodbye to his mother and Dunya, swears to them that he will begin to live in a completely different way. Rodion is sad that he could not cross the threshold of humanity and his conscience torments him.
Chapter 7
Raskolnikov comes to Sonya, allows her to put a cross on him, then, on the advice of the girl, feeling some kind of sudden liberation in himself, he goes to the crossroads, falls to his knees, kisses the ground and is about to say: "I am a murderer." But the people gathered around began to taunt him, believing that he was drunk. And Rodion leaves from there, but comes to the police, wanting to confess to the murder. Here he hears someone talking about Svidrigailov's suicide.
Chapter 8
The news of the death of Arkady Ivanovich shakes Rodion. Raskolnikov leaves the police, but on the street he sees Sonya waving her hands in despair. The young man returns to the station and confesses to the murder.
Epilogue
Chapter 1
At the trial, Raskolnikov does not try to justify himself, but the judges soften, give him eight years of hard labor. Sonya leaves for Rodion. Pulcheria Ivanovna dies during the trial. Sonya writes to Duna and Razumikhin about how Rodion lives in Siberia.
Dunya and Razumikhin got married, they are going to go to Raskolnikov and Sonya when Rodion's friend finishes his studies at the university in order to live together in Siberia.
Chapter 2
The convicts did not accept Raskolnikov, avoided him, did not like him. And Rodion, tormented by pangs of conscience, thought that Svidrigailov turned out to be stronger in spirit than he himself, since he was able to commit suicide. The prisoners respected Sonya, even fell in love. When they met a girl, they took off their hats in front of her, bowed to the ground.
Raskolnikov fell seriously ill and ended up in the hospital. He recovered very hard and hard, just as hard and hard was the healing of the soul.
Once Raskolnikov burst into tears, kneeling in front of Sonya. The girl cried in response, suddenly realizing that Rodion loves her. She herself loved him and could not live without him.
“They were resurrected by love, the heart of one included endless sources of life for the heart of the other”
A brief retelling of the events of the novel "Crime and Punishment" reflects the most significant events that occur with the heroes of the work, and the main idea, the main idea of the novel: there is no crime without punishment. The novel itself, in its entirety, in the original will be even more interesting to the reader.
"Crime and Punishment"
retelling
Part one
In 1865, Rodion Raskolnikov, a former law student, was finally "crushed by poverty", his closet resembles not an apartment, but a closet. A young man is tormented by painful and disturbing thoughts. He is thinking about some mysterious case, and this thought has been tormenting his mind for a month and a half, the thought of killing an old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov goes to Alena Ivanovna, a pawnbroker, gives her a watch in exchange for money and promises to bring a pure silver cigarette box soon. The young man does not understand how the terrible thought of murder could come into his head, and goes into the tavern.
In the tavern, Raskolnikov meets the titular adviser Marmeladov. From the speech of the tipsy titular adviser, the young man learns that Marmeladov's wife, with three small children in her arms, Katerina Ivanovna, married a man out of hopelessness, she simply had nowhere to go, but she is smart and educated. Marmeladov drinks all the money. Somehow he entered the service, but could not stand it and started drinking again, even took the last money out of the house. Marmeladov's daughter Sonya was forced to go to the panel in order to somehow provide for her family. Raskolnikov escorts a new acquaintance home, sees the poor furnishings of the room and leaves a trifle on their windowsill.
In the morning, Rodion reads a letter from his mother, from which he learns that his sister Dunya was slandered by the Svidrigailovs. The girl worked in their house as a governess, and the mistress's husband fell in love with her. When the hostess Marfa Petrovna found out about this, she began to humiliate and insult Dunya.
Svidrigailov admitted that the governess was not to blame for anything. Forty-five-year-old Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, who has a small capital, wooed the girl. Further, Pulcheria Raskolnikova reports that they will soon come to Rodion in St. Petersburg, as Luzhin is in a hurry with the wedding and wants to open a law office in the city. The letter from home moved the hero very much, and he ran out into the street.
Raskolnikov does not want his sister to become Luzhin's wife. He understands that the relatives agreed to this marriage only in order to end poverty and help Rodion. However, the hero understands that a poor student cannot equal the rich Luzhin. And again, a thought that had tormented him for a long time creeps into his mind.
Rodion wants to go to his university friend Razumikhin and borrow money from him, but refuses this venture. A young man spends his last money on a piece of cake and a glass of vodka, after which he falls asleep in the bushes. He has a terrible dream in which men beat an old horse to death, and he is very small and cannot do anything. The boy kisses the dead horse and rushes at the man with his fists. Waking up, Raskolnikov again thinks about the murder and doubts that he will decide on it. At the market near Sennaya Square, the hero sees the old woman's sister Lizaveta. From her conversation with the merchants, he understands that the next day at seven in the evening the pawnbroker will be at home alone. Rodion thinks that for him now "everything has been finally decided."
Raskolnikov considers it unfair that the old woman does not bring any benefit to society and at the same time owns a decent fortune. He is convinced that the death of an insignificant creature can save the lives of hundreds of other people in need. After spending the whole day in a state close to delirium, the student takes an ax from the janitor's room and goes to the old woman.
When Alena Ivanovna takes the cigarette box from Rodion and turns to face the window, the young man hits her on the head with the butt of an axe. When Raskolnikov goes to the pawnbroker's room, Lizaveta unexpectedly returns. The hero is confused and kills the old woman's sister. Pulling himself together, the young man washes his hands and an ax, locks the door, which turned out to be open. Clients come to the pawnbroker. The student waits for them to leave and leaves the apartment, hiding in an empty room on the floor below.
Part two
Raskolnikov sleeps until three o'clock in the afternoon and remembers, waking up, that he did not hide the things that he took from Alena Ivanovna. He sorts through them, washes blood stains from things. Nastasya gives the hero a summons brought from the police office from the quarter. When a student comes to the station, it turns out that the owner of the apartment, through law enforcement agencies, is demanding payment for housing from him. The warden takes a receipt from the young man with the obligation to pay the debt. When Rodion is about to leave, he hears the dialogue of the police about the murder of the pawnbroker and faints. Everyone decides that he is ill and sends him home.
Raskolnikov fears a search and decides to get rid of his victim's belongings. He walks around the city, but he can't do it, because everywhere is quite crowded. Finally he hid the things. The hero comes to Razumikhin without any specific purpose of the visit. A friend thinks he is ill. Returning home, the young man almost gets hit by a wheelchair. The woman sitting in it takes the hero for a beggar and gives him two kopecks. Raskolnikov throws money into the river. All night the student is delirious, and in the morning he loses consciousness.
Rodion comes to his senses in a few days. Next to him are Razumikhin and Nastasya. The student is brought a translation from the mother. Razumikhin says that the policeman Zametov came to the hero more than once and was interested in his things. Left alone, Raskolnikov carefully examines his room and all things, worrying if there are traces of a crime left on them. Razumikhin brings a friend new clothes.
Raskolnikov receives a visit from another friend, the medical student Zosimov. From the conversation of the guests about the murder of the old pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta, Rodion learns that many are suspected, including the dyer Mikola.
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin comes to Raskolnikov's apartment. He reports that he has found accommodation for his fiancée and her mother. Luzhin makes an unpleasant impression on the students, because he loves only himself. Young people are talking about crime again. The hero learns that Porfiry Petrovich is interrogating all the old woman's clients. Raskolnikov reproaches Luzhin for wanting to marry a girl from a poor family so that she considers her husband her benefactor all her life and obeys him. Pyotr Petrovich is indignant and says that Pulcheria Alexandrovna has distorted the meaning of his words. Rodion promises to bring the guest down the stairs.
In the tavern "Crystal Palace" Rodion again meets with Zametov. Raskolnikov says what he would do in the place of the murderer of the old woman: how would he cover up the traces of the crime, where would he hide the stolen. Zametov says he does not believe that the student is involved in the crime. Walking around the city, Rodion Raskolnikov approaches the Neva and thinks about suicide. Before his eyes, a woman throws herself into the water, but she is rescued. The young man refuses to think about suicide. In a semi-delirious state, the hero goes to the house of the murdered pawnbroker, where repairs are underway. He talks to the workers about the crime, and they think he's crazy. Rodion is about to go to Razumikhin's party, but he hears noise nearby and goes there.
The carriage ran over Marmeladov. The victim is being carried home, Katerina Ivanovna is in despair, she is angry and shouts at the crowd of onlookers. Sonechka arrives, and Rodion notices that she looks ridiculous in a flashy outfit amid the wretched furnishings of the room. Marmeladov asks his daughter for forgiveness and dies. Raskolnikov gives the family all his money for the funeral. The young man is overtaken by the daughter of Katerina Ivanovna Polechka, and he gives her his address. Raskolnikov feels that he is beginning to recover. He goes to a party with a friend, after which Razumikhin escorts him home. Approaching the house, the student sees the light in his windows. Rising, he sees his mother and sister, faints.
Rodion Raskolnikov comes to his senses and asks his family not to worry about him. Young man arguing with his sister
about Luzhin, demands that Dunya give it to Pyotr Petrovich. Razumikhin likes his friend's sister, he tries to prove to her that he and Luzhin are not a couple. The student's relatives leave because Rodion wants to be alone.
In the morning, Razumikhin comes to Rodion's mother and sister, asks Dunya for forgiveness for the words about her fiancé, apologizes for his temper. Luzhin sends a note to the ladies saying that he wants to visit them, but asks that Raskolnikov not be in the house at that moment.
Raskolnikov tells about the death of Marmeladov, learns from his mother about the death of Svidrigailova. Rodion is told about Pyotr Petrovich's note, and he is ready to do as his relatives want. Dunya wants her brother to be present at the visit of her fiancé.
Sonya comes to Raskolnikov and invites him to Marmeladov's funeral. Rodion introduces her to her mother and sister, although the girl's reputation does not allow her to communicate with the ladies on an equal footing. Leaving, Dunya bows to Marmeladova. Raskolnikov asks to introduce him to Porfiry Petrovich, as he wants to take away the things that he himself pawned from the old woman. Sonya is being pursued by a stranger who is talking to her.
Raskolnikov, together with Razumikhin, goes to Porfiry Petrovich. Rodion makes fun of his friend's sympathy for Duna. Porfiry's friends see Zametov. The perpetrator wants to find out if the investigator knows about his recent visit to the victim's house. From a conversation with the police, the hero realizes that he is suspected of murder. Porfiry Petrovich reminds the student of his article published in the newspaper "Periodical speech". The article presents Raskolnikov's theory, according to which people are divided into ordinary, i.e. "material", and extraordinary.
Extraordinary people can allow their conscience to commit a crime in the name of the common good. Investigator Porfiry asks the hero about the details: for example, did he see the dyers during a visit to the pawnbroker. Rodion, afraid of making a mistake, hesitates to answer. Razumikhin says that his friend was in the house three days before the murder, and the dyers were working on the day of the crime. Porfiry says goodbye to the students.
When Raskolnikov approaches his house, an unknown man calls him a murderer and immediately leaves. The hero is again tormented by a fever. He dreams of this passerby. He beckons him to Alena Ivanovna's apartment. Rodion hits the old woman on the head with an ax, and she laughs. The young man wants to run away, but there are a lot of people around who condemn him. Raskolnikov wakes up. Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov comes to him.
Part four
Raskolnikov is not happy with Svidrigailov's visit, as he seriously spoiled the reputation of his sister. Arkady Ivanovich says that he and Rodion are very similar to each other, "one field of berries." Svidrigailov asks Raskolnikov to arrange a meeting with Dunya. His wife left her three thousand rubles, and he himself wants to give her ten thousand for the trouble she has caused. The student refuses to arrange a meeting.
In the evening, Razumikhin and Raskolnikov visit Rodion's family. Luzhin is outraged that the ladies did not consider his request. He wants to discuss the upcoming wedding, but Raskolnikov is not going to do it. Pyotr Petrovich reproaches Dunya that she does not understand her happiness, recalls the plight of the girl's family. Dunya replies that she cannot choose between her fiancé and her brother. She and Luzhin quarrel, and the girl asks her fiancé to leave.
Luzhin Dunya as a wife was completely fine, and therefore he hopes to fix everything. Rodion talks about Svidrigailov's visit. His sister is sure that the man is up to something terrible and is afraid of meeting him. Everyone begins to talk about how to spend Marfa Petrovna's money.
Razumikhin offers to engage in book publishing. Everyone is talking animatedly. Rodion Raskolnikov suddenly gets up in the middle of a conversation and leaves. He says that it is better for them not to see each other for a while. Razumikhin tries to calm the young man's relatives, saying that he has not yet fully recovered.
Rodion comes to Sonya and says that her sacrifice is in vain. The girl replies that she cannot leave her relatives, because without her they will simply die of hunger. The young man bows at Marmeladova's feet, saying that he bows to "all human suffering." Raskolnikov learns that Sonechka was friends with the late Lizaveta. On the girl's table lies the Gospel brought by the pawnbroker's sister. Student asks to read to him
about the resurrection of Lazarus. Then Rodion promises to come the next day and tell who killed Lizaveta. Their conversation is heard by Svidrigailov, who is at this time in the next room.
The next day, Rodion goes to Porfiry Petrovich and asks to return his things. The investigator checks him again. Raskolnikov cannot stand it and asks to plead guilty or not guilty of the murder. The man avoids answering. He reports that there is some kind of surprise in the next room.
The dyer Nikolai is brought in, and he, unexpectedly for everyone, confesses to the murder of the old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov returns home. On the threshold of his room appears that mysterious man who called Rodion a murderer. The man apologizes for his words. It turned out that he had heard stories about the murder in the apartment, and it was him that Porfiry had prepared as a "surprise". Raskolnikov feels calmer.
Part Five
In his quarrel with Dunya, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin considers only Raskolnikov to be guilty. He wants revenge and invites Sonya to his place. The man apologizes for not being able to come to the wake, and gives the girl ten rubles.
Katerina Ivanovna arranges a good commemoration, but many do not come to them. Is Rodion Rassolnikov. The widow quarrels with the owner of the apartment, Amalia Ivanovna. At this moment Luzhin arrives.
Pyotr Petrovich reports that Sonya stole a hundred rubles from him. As a witness, he provides his neighbor Lebezyatnikov. Sonya is lost, but very soon begins to deny the accusations and gives Luzhin his ten rubles. Katerina Ivanovna does not believe in the guilt of the girl and begins to turn her pockets inside out. A hundred-ruble bill falls from there. Lebezyatnikov says that Luzhin slipped the girl the money himself. Petr Petrovich screams, promising to call the police. Katerina Ivanovna, along with her children, is expelled from the apartment.
Rodion Raskolnikov comes to Sonya and says that he knows the killer. The girl understands everything. She is ready to follow him to hard labor, but he must atone for his sin. The student realizes that his theory has not been confirmed.
Lebezyatnikov reports that Katerina Ivanovna has gone mad. She made the children beg, and they ran away from her. The woman is taken to Sonya, where she dies. Dunya does not take ten thousand from Svidrigailov, and the man wants to give them to the Marmeladovs. Raskolnikov advises his sister to pay attention to Razumikhin.
Part six
Bury Katerina Ivanovna. Razumikhin tells that Pulcheria Alexandrovna is ill. Rodion wants to deal with Svidrigailov, to talk about his intentions about Dunya.
Porfiry Petrovich comes and reports that he suspects the young man of the murder, advises him to confess himself and gives him two days to think. However, there is no evidence against Rodion, and he does not confess to the crime.
Dunya goes to meet Svidrigailov. Arkady Ivanovich insists that they talk in his apartment. He tells the girl about the conversation he overheard between Sonya and Raskolnikov, promises to save Rodion in exchange for Dunya's love and affection. The girl wants to leave the house, but the door is locked. She shoots several times at Arkady Ivanovich with a revolver, but misses, asking to be released. Svidrigailov gives the girl the key to the door. Dunya drops the revolver and leaves. The man raises the revolver.
Svidrigailov walks around the taverns, then goes to Sonya. He reports that he has placed the children in a good boarding house, gives her three thousand. At night, Arkady Ivanovich sees in a dream a teenage girl who died long ago because of him. He leaves the hotel and commits suicide with Dunya's revolver.
Raskolnikov says goodbye to his mother and sister; informs Dunya that he wants to confess to the murder, promises to start a new life. Rodion regrets that he did not cross the cherished threshold of his theory, his conscience.
The hero goes to Sonya, and the girl puts her pectoral cross on him. She advises kissing the ground at the crossroads and saying out loud, "I'm a killer." Rodion follows her advice, after which he goes to the police station and confesses to his deed. There he learns about Svidrigailov's suicide.
Raskolnikov was sentenced to eight years hard labor. He has been in prison for a year and a half. Pulcheria Alexandrovna dies, and Sonechka goes to hard labor after Raskolnikov. The hero's sister marries Razumikhin. The young man wants to save money and go to Siberia so that everyone can start a different life there.
Rodion does not find a common language with the rest of the prisoners. He is ashamed that he so stupidly and incompetently ruined his life. Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov seems to the hero stronger in spirit, because he was able to commit suicide. All the prisoners fell in love with Sonya and at the meeting they took off their hats and bowed to her. Rodion falls ill, even lies in the hospital. His recovery is hard and slow. Under Raskolnikov's pillow lies the Gospel. One day the young man starts crying and hugging Sonya's knees. The girl understands that he loves her and also cries: “They were resurrected by love, the heart of one included endless sources of life for the heart of another. They decided to wait and endure... But he was resurrected, and he knew it, he felt it more fully with his whole renewed being, and she—she, after all, lived only his life!”
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The novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was written in 1866. The idea of the work came to the writer as early as 1859, when he was serving a sentence in hard labor. Initially, Dostoevsky was going to write the novel "Crime and Punishment" in the form of a confession, but in the process of work, the original idea gradually changed and, describing his new work to the editor of the journal "Russian Messenger" (in which the book was first published), the author characterizes the novel as "a psychological report of one works".
"Crime and Punishment" refers to the literary movement of realism, written in the genre of a philosophical and psychological polyphonic novel, since the ideas of the heroes in the work are equal to each other, and the author stands next to the characters, and not above them.
Compiled according to "Crime and Punishment", a summary of chapters and parts allows you to get acquainted with the key points of the novel, prepare for a literature lesson in grade 10 or a test. You can read the retelling of the novel presented on our website online or save it to any electronic medium.
Main characters
Rodion Raskolnikov- a poor student, a young, proud, disinterested youth. He "was remarkably good-looking, with beautiful dark eyes, dark blond, taller than average, thin and slender."
Sonya Marmeladova- the native daughter of Marmeladov, a drunkard, a former titular adviser. "A girl of small stature, about eighteen years old, thin, but rather pretty blonde, with wonderful blue eyes."
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin- Dunya's fiancé, prudent, "prim, portly, with a cautious and obnoxious physiognomy," a gentleman of forty-five years.
Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov- a gambler with a controversial character, who stepped over several lives. "A man in his fifties, taller than average, portly".
Porfiry Petrovich- the bailiff of investigative affairs, who was involved in the murder of an old money-lender. "A man of about thirty-five, below average height, full and even with a paunch, clean-shaven, without a mustache and without sideburns". A smart person, "a skeptic, a cynic".
Razumikhin- student, friend of Rodion. A very intelligent young man, although sometimes rustic, “his appearance was expressive - tall, thin, always poorly shaven, black-haired. Sometimes he was rowdy and was known as a strong man.
Dunya (Avdotya Romanovna) Raskolnikova- Raskolnikov's sister, "a firm, prudent, patient and generous, albeit with an ardent heart" girl. “She had dark blond hair, a little lighter than her brother; eyes almost black, sparkling, proud, and at the same time sometimes, at times, unusually kind.
Other characters
Alena Ivanovna- an old pawnbroker who was killed by Raskolnikov.
Lizaveta Ivanovna- the sister of the old pawnbroker, “a tall, clumsy, timid and humble girl, almost an idiot, thirty-five years old, who was in complete slavery to her sister, worked for her day and night, trembled before her and even suffered beatings from her.”
Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov- Sonya's father, a drunkard, "a man already over fifty, of medium height and dense build, with gray hair and a large bald head."
Ekaterina Ivanovna Marmeladova- a woman of noble birth (from a ruined noble family), Sonya's stepmother, Marmeladov's wife. "A terribly thin woman, thin, rather tall and slender, with beautiful dark blond hair."
Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikova- mother of Rodion, a woman of forty-three years.
Zosimov- doctor, friend of Raskolnikov, 27 years old.
Zametov- The clerk at the police station.
Nastasya- the cook of the hostess, from whom Raskolnikov rented a room.
Lebezyatnikov- Luzhin's roommate.
Mykola- a dyer who confessed to the murder of an old woman
Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova- Svidrigailov's wife.
Polechka, Lenya, Kolya- children of Katerina Ivanovna.
Part one
Chapter 1
The protagonist of the novel, Rodion Raskolnikov, is in a situation bordering on poverty, he ate almost nothing for the second day and owes the owner of the apartment a decent amount for rent. The young man goes to the old woman-interest-bearer Alena Ivanovna, pondering on the way a “mysterious” case, thoughts about which have been troubling him for a long time - the hero was going to kill.
Arriving at Alena Ivanovna, Raskolnikov lays down a silver watch, while carefully examining the furnishings of her apartment. Leaving, Rodion promises to return soon to pawn a silver cigarette.
Chapter 2
Entering the tavern, Raskolnikov meets the titular adviser Marmeladov there. Upon learning that Rodion is a student, the intoxicated interlocutor begins to talk about poverty, saying that “poverty is not a vice, it’s true, poverty is a vice,” and tells Rodion about his family. His wife, Katerina Ivanovna, having three children in her arms, married him out of desperation, although she was smart and educated. But Marmeladov drinks all the money, taking the last thing out of the house. In order to somehow provide for the family, his daughter, Sonya Marmeladova, had to go to the panel.
Raskolnikov decided to take the drunken Marmeladov home, as he was already poorly on his feet. The student was struck by the beggarly situation of their housing. Katerina Ivanovna begins to scold her husband that he again drank the last money and Raskolnikov, not wanting to get involved in a quarrel, leaves, for reasons not clear to himself, leaving them a trifle on the windowsill.
Chapter 3
Raskolnikov lived in a small room with a very low ceiling: “it was a tiny cell, six paces long.” There were three old chairs in the room, a table, a large sofa in tatters, and a small table.
Rodion receives a letter from his mother Pulcheria Raskolnikova. The woman wrote that his sister Dunya was slandered by the Svidrigailov family, in whose house the girl worked as a governess. Svidrigailov showed unambiguous signs of attention to her. Upon learning of this, Marfa Petrovna, his wife, began to insult and humiliate Dunya. In addition, the forty-five-year-old court adviser Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, with a small capital, got engaged to Dunya. The mother writes that soon she and her sister will arrive in St. Petersburg, since Luzhin wants to arrange a wedding as soon as possible.
Chapter 4
Raskolnikov was greatly disturbed by his mother's letter. The young man understands that the relatives agreed to the marriage of Luzhin and Dunya, only to end poverty, but the young man is against this marriage. Raskolnikov understands that he has no right to forbid Duna to marry Luzhin. And Rodin again began to think about the thought that had tormented him for a long time (the murder of the pawnbroker).
Chapter 5
Walking around the Islands, Raskolnikov decided to have a bite of cake and vodka. The young man had not drunk for a long time, so he got drunk almost immediately and, before reaching home, fell asleep in the bushes. He had a terrible dream: an episode from childhood, in which the peasants slaughtered an old horse. Little Rodion cannot do anything, he runs up to the dead horse, kisses its muzzle and, angry, rushes at the peasant with his fists.
Waking up, Raskolnikov again thinks about the murder of the pawnbroker and doubts that he will be able to decide on it. Passing by the market on Sennaya, the young man saw the old woman's sister, Lizaveta. From Lizaveta's conversation with the merchants, Raskolnikov learns that the pawnbroker will be alone at home tomorrow at seven in the evening. The young man understands that now "everything is finally decided."
Chapter 6
Raskolnikov accidentally hears a conversation between a student and an officer that the old pawnbroker is unworthy of life, and if she is killed, then with her money one could help so many poor young people. Rodion was very excited by what he heard.
Arriving home, Raskolnikov, being in a state close to delirium, begins to prepare for the murder. The young man sewed an ax loop on the inside of the coat under the left armpit so that when the coat was put on, the ax was not noticeable. Then he took out a "pawn" hidden in the gap between the sofa and the floor - a tablet, the size of a cigarette box, wrapped in paper and tied with a ribbon, which he was going to give the old woman to divert attention. Having finished the preparations, Rodion stole an ax in the janitor and went to the old woman.
Chapter 7
Arriving at the pawnbroker, Rodion was worried that the old woman would notice his excitement and would not let him in, but she takes a “mortgage”, believing that this is a cigarette box, and tries to untie the ribbon. The young man, realizing that it is impossible to hesitate, takes out an ax and lowers it on her head with a butt, the old woman settled down, Raskolnikov beats her a second time, after which he realizes that she has already died.
Raskolnikov takes the keys from the old woman's pocket and goes to her room. As soon as he found the riches of the pawnbroker in a large packing (chest) and began to fill the pockets of his coat and trousers with them, Lizaveta suddenly returned. In confusion, the hero also kills the old woman's sister. He is terrified, but gradually the hero pulls himself together, washes away the blood from his hands, ax and boots. Raskolnikov was about to leave, but then he heard footsteps on the stairs: customers had come to the old woman. After waiting until they leave, Rodion himself quickly leaves the pawnbroker's apartment. Returning home, the young man returns the ax and, going into his room, without undressing, fell into oblivion on the bed.
Part two
Chapter 1
Raskolnikov slept until three in the afternoon. Waking up, the hero remembers what he did. He looks through all the clothes in horror, checking if there are any traces of blood on them. He immediately finds the jewels taken from the pawnbroker, which he had completely forgotten about, and hides them in the corner of the room, in a hole under the wallpaper.
Nastasya comes to Rodion. She brought him a summons from the quarterly: the hero had to appear at the police office. Rodion is nervous, but at the station it turns out that he is only required to write a receipt with the obligation to pay the debt to the landlady.
Already about to leave the station, Rodion accidentally hears the conversation of the police about the murder of Alena Ivanovna and faints. Everyone decides that Raskolnikov is ill and is allowed to go home.
Chapter 2
Fearing a search, Rodion hides the old woman's valuables (a purse with money and jewelry) under a stone in a deserted courtyard surrounded by blank walls.
Chapter 3
Returning home, Raskolnikov wandered for several days, and when he woke up, he saw Razumikhin and Nastasya next to him. A young man receives a money transfer from his mother, who sent money to pay for housing. Dmitry tells his friend that while he was ill, the police officer Zametov came to Rodion several times and asked about his things.
Chapter 4
Another comrade comes to Raskolnikov - a medical student Zosimov. He starts a conversation about the murder of Alena Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta, saying that many are suspected of the crime, including the dyer Mikola, but the police do not yet have reliable evidence.
Chapter 5
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin comes to Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov reproaches the man that he is going to marry Dunya only so that the girl will be grateful to the end of her life for delivering her family from poverty. Luzhin tries to deny it. Angry Raskolnikov kicks him out.
Following him, Raskolnikov's friends also leave. Razumikhin worries about his friend, believing that “he has something on his mind! Something immovable, weighing.
Chapter 6
Having accidentally entered the Crystal Palace tavern, Raskolnikov meets Zametov there. Discussing with him the case of the murder of the old woman, Rodion expresses his opinion on how he would act in the place of the killer. The student asks what Zametov would do if he was the killer and almost directly says that it was he who killed the old woman. Zametov decides that Rodion is crazy and does not believe in his guilt.
Walking around the city, Raskolnikov decides to drown himself, but, having changed his mind, he goes half-delirious to the house of the murdered old pawnbroker. There is a renovation going on and the student is talking to the workers about the crime that has happened, everyone thinks he is crazy.
Chapter 7
On the way to Razumikhin, Raskolnikov sees a crowd gathered around the accidentally knocked down, completely drunk Marmeladov. The victim was taken home and is in critical condition.
Before his death, Marmeladov asks Sonya for forgiveness and dies in his daughter's arms. Raskolnikov gives all his money to Marmeladov's funeral.
Rodion feels that he is recovering and goes to visit Razumikhin. Dmitry accompanies him home. Approaching the house, Raskolnikov, students see light in his windows. When the friends went up to the room, it turned out that Rodion's mother and sister had arrived. Seeing loved ones, Raskolnikov fainted.
Part three
Chapter 1
Having come to his senses, Rodion asks his relatives not to worry. Talking with his sister about Luzhin, Raskolnikov demands that the girl refuse him. Pulcheria Alexandrovna wants to stay to look after her son, but Razumikhin persuades the women to return to the hotel.
Razumikhin really liked Dunya, he was attracted by her beauty: in her appearance, strength and self-confidence were combined with softness and grace.
Chapter 2
In the morning, Razumikhin visits Raskolnikov's mother and sister. Discussing Luzhin, Pulcheria Alexandrovna shares with Dmitry that in the morning they received a letter from Pyotr Petrovich. Luzhin writes that he wants to visit them, but asks that Rodion not be present during their meeting. Mother and Dunya go to Raskolnikov.
Chapter 3
Raskolnikov is feeling better. A student tells his mother and sister about giving all his money to a poor family's funeral yesterday. Raskolnikov notices that his relatives are afraid of him.
There is a conversation about Luzhin. Rodion is unpleasant that Pyotr Petrovich does not show proper attention to the bride. The young man is told about the letter of Pyotr Petrovich, he is ready to do as his relatives consider right. Dunya believes that Rodion must certainly be present during Luzhin's visit.
Chapter 4
Sonya came to Raskolnikov with an invitation to Marmeladov's funeral. Despite the fact that the girl’s reputation does not allow her to communicate on an equal footing with Rodion’s mother and sister, the young man introduces her to her relatives. Leaving, Dunya bowed to Sonya, which greatly embarrassed the girl.
When Sonya was walking home, some stranger began to pursue her, who turned out to be her neighbor (further in the story it becomes clear that it was Svidrigailov).
Chapter 5
Raskolnikov and Razumikhin go to Porfiry, as Rodion asked a friend to introduce him to the investigator. Raskolnikov turns to Porfiry with the question of how to claim his right to the things that he pledged to the old woman. The investigator says that he needs to file an announcement with the police, and that his things have not disappeared, as he remembers them among those seized by the investigation.
Discussing the murder of the pawnbroker with Porfiry, the young man realizes that he is also suspected. Porfiry recalls Raskolnikov's article. In it, Rodion sets out his own theory that people are divided into “ordinary” (the so-called “material”) and “extraordinary” (talented, able to say a “new word”)”: “ordinary people must live in obedience and have no right to cross law". “And the extraordinary have the right to commit all sorts of crimes and break the law in every possible way, in fact, because they are extraordinary.” Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he considers himself such an “extraordinary” person and if he is capable of killing or robbing, Raskolnikov replies that “it can very well be”.
Clarifying the details of the case, the investigator asks Raskolnikov if, for example, during his last visit to the pawnbroker, he saw dyers. Delaying with the answer, the young man says that he did not see. Razumikhin is immediately responsible for a friend who was with the old woman three days before the murder, when the dyers were not there yet, because they were working on the day of the murder. The students leave Porfiry.
Chapter 6
A stranger was waiting near Rodion's house, who called Rodion a murderer and, not wanting to explain himself, leaves.
At home, Raskolnikov again began to suffer from a fever. The young man dreamed of this stranger, who beckoned him to follow him to the apartment of the old money-lender. Rodion hit Alena Ivanovna on the head with an ax, but she laughs. The student tries to run away, but sees a crowd of people judging him around. Rodion wakes up.
Svidrigailov comes to Raskolnikov.
Part four
Chapter 1
Raskolnikov is not happy about the arrival of Svidrigailov, because of him Dunya's reputation has seriously deteriorated. Arkady Ivanovich expresses the opinion that he and Rodion are very similar: "one field of berries." Svidrigailov is trying to persuade Raskolnikov to arrange a meeting with Dunya, since his wife left the girl three thousand, and he himself would like to give Dunya ten thousand for all the trouble caused to her. Rodion refuses to arrange their meeting.
Chapters 2-3
In the evening, Raskolnikov and Razumikhin visit Rodion's mother and sister. Luzhin is outraged that the women did not take into account his request, and does not want to discuss the details of the wedding with Raskolnikov. Luzhin reminds Duna of the distress her family is in, reproaching the girl for not realizing her happiness. Dunya says that she cannot choose between her brother and her fiancé. Luzhin gets angry, they quarrel, and the girl asks Pyotr Petrovich to leave.
Chapter 4
Raskolnikov comes to Sonya. "Sonya's room looked like a barn, looked like a very irregular quadrangle, and this gave it something ugly." During the conversation, the young man asks what will happen to the girl now, because she now has an almost crazy mother, brother and sister. Sonya says that she cannot leave them, because without her they will simply die of hunger. Raskolnikov bows at Sonya's feet, the girl thinks that the young man is insane, but Rodion explains his act: “I didn’t bow to you, I bowed to all human suffering.”
Rodion draws attention to the New Testament lying on the table. Raskolnikov asks to read to him a chapter on the resurrection of Lazarus: “The cigarette end has long been extinguished in a crooked candlestick, dimly illuminating in this beggarly room the murderer and the harlot, who strangely come together to read the eternal book.” Leaving, Rodion promises to come the next day and tell Sonya who killed Lizaveta.
Their entire conversation was heard by Svidrigailov, who was in the next room.
Chapter 5
The next day, Raskolnikov comes to Porfiry Petrovich with a request to return his things to him. The investigator again tries to check the young man. Unable to stand it, Rodion, very nervous, asks Porfiry to finally find him guilty or not guilty of the murder of the old woman. However, the investigator avoids answering, saying that there is a surprise in the next room, but does not tell the young man which one.
Chapter 6
Unexpectedly for Raskolnikov and Porfiry, the dyer Mikola is brought in, who, in front of everyone, confesses to the murder of Alena Ivanovna. Raskolnikov returns home and on the threshold of his apartment meets that mysterious tradesman who called him a murderer. The man apologizes for his words: as it turned out, it was he who was the “surprise” prepared by Porfiry and now repented of his mistake. Rodion feels calmer.
Part Five
Chapter 1
Luzhin believes that only Raskolnikov is to blame for their quarrel with Dunya. Pyotr Petrovich thinks that in vain he did not give Raskolnikov money before the wedding: this would solve many problems. Wanting to take revenge on Rodion, Luzhin asks his roommate Lebezyatnikov, who is well acquainted with Sonya, to call the girl to him. Pyotr Petrovich apologizes to Sonya that he will not be able to attend the funeral (although he was invited), and gives her ten rubles. Lebezyatnikov notices that Luzhin is up to something, but does not yet understand what it is.
Chapter 2
Katerina Ivanovna arranged a good funeral for her husband, but many of those invited did not come. Raskolnikov was also present. Ekaterina Ivanovna begins to quarrel with the owner of the apartment, Amalia Ivanovna, because she invited just anyone, and not “better people and precisely the acquaintances of the deceased”. During their quarrel, Pyotr Petrovich arrives.
Chapter 3
Luzhin reports that Sonya stole a hundred rubles from him and his neighbor Lebezyatnikov is a witness to this. The girl is at first lost, but quickly begins to deny her guilt and gives Pyotr Petrovich his ten rubles. Not believing in the guilt of the girl, Katerina Ivanovna begins to turn out her daughter's pockets in front of everyone, and a hundred-ruble bill falls out of there. Lebezyatnikov understands that Luzhin got him into an awkward situation and tells those present that he remembered how Pyotr Petrovich himself slipped Sonya money. Raskolnikov defends Sonya. Luzhin screams and gets angry, promising to call the police. Amalia Ivanovna kicks Katerina Ivanovna out of the apartment with her children.
Chapter 4
Raskolnikov goes to Sonya, thinking about whether to tell the girl who killed Lizaveta. The young man understands that he must tell everything. Tormented, Rodion tells the girl that he knows the killer and that he killed Lizaveta by accident. Sonya understands everything and, sympathizing with Raskolnikov, says that there is no one more unhappy than him "now in the whole world." She is ready to follow him even to hard labor. Sonya asks Rodion why he went to kill, even if he didn’t take the loot, to which the young man replies that he wanted to become Napoleon: “I wanted to dare and killed ... I just wanted to dare, Sonya, that’s the whole reason!” . “I had to find out something else. Will I be able to cross or not! Am I a trembling creature, or do I have a right?
Sonya says that he needs to go and confess what he has done, then God will forgive him and "send life again."
Chapter 5
Lebezyatnikov comes to Sonya and says that Katerina Ivanovna has gone mad: the woman made the children beg, walks down the street, beats the frying pan and makes the children sing and dance. They help Katerina Ivanovna to be taken to Sonya's room, where the woman dies.
Svidrigailov approached Rodion, who was at Sonya's. Arkady Ivanovich says that he will pay for the funeral of Katerina Ivanovna, arrange children in orphanages and take care of Sonya's fate, asking her to tell Duna that she will spend the ten thousand that she wanted to give her. When asked by Rodion why Arkady Ivanovich became so generous, Svidrigailov replies that he heard all their conversations with Sonya through the wall.
Part six
Chapters 1-2
Funeral of Katerina Ivanovna. Razumikhin tells Rodion that Pulcheria Alexandrovna has fallen ill.
Porfiry Petrovich comes to Raskolnikov. The investigator states that he suspects Rodion of the murder. He advises the young man to come to the police station with a confession, giving two days to think. However, there is no evidence against Raskolnikov, and he has not yet confessed to the murder.
Chapters 3-4
Raskolnikov understands that he needs to talk with Svidrigailov: "this man hid some kind of power over him." Rodion meets Arkady Ivanovich in a tavern. Svidrigailov tells the young man about his relationship with his late wife and that he really was very much in love with Dunya, but now he has a bride.
Chapter 5
Svidrigailov leaves the tavern, after which, secretly from Raskolnikov, he meets with Dunya. Arkady Ivanovich insists that the girl come to his apartment. Svidrigailov tells Dunya about the overheard conversation between Sonya and Rodion. The man promises to save Raskolnikov in exchange for the favor and love of Dunya. The girl wants to leave, but the door is locked. Dunya takes out a hidden revolver, shoots the man several times, but misses, and asks to be released. Svidrigailov gives Dunya the key. The girl drops her weapon and leaves.
Chapter 6
Svidrigailov spends the whole evening in taverns. Returning home, the man went to Sonya. Arkady Ivanovich tells her that he may go to America. The girl thanks him for arranging the funeral and helping the orphans. The man gives her three thousand rubles so that she can live a normal life. The girl refuses at first, but Svidrigailov says that she knows that she is ready to follow Rodion to hard labor and she will definitely need the money.
Svidrigailov wanders into the wilderness of the city, where he stays at a hotel. At night, he dreams of a teenage girl who died long ago because of him, drowning herself after a man broke her heart. Going outside at dawn, Svidrigailov shot himself in the head with Dunya's revolver.
Chapter 7
Raskolnikov says goodbye to his sister and mother. The young man tells his relatives that he is going to confess to the murder of the old woman, promises to start a new life. Rodion regrets that he could not cross the cherished threshold of his own theory and his conscience.
Chapter 8
Raskolnikov goes to Sonya. The girl puts a cypress pectoral cross on him, advising him to go to the crossroads, kiss the ground and say out loud "I am a killer." Rodion does as Sonya said, after which he goes to the police station and confesses to the murder of the old pawnbroker and her sister. In the same place, the young man learns about Svidrigailov's suicide.
Epilogue
Chapter 1
Rodion is sentenced to eight years in hard labor in Siberia. Pulcheria Alexandrovna fell ill at the beginning of the process (her illness was nervous, more like insanity) and Dunya and Razumikhin took her away from St. Petersburg. The woman invents a story that Raskolnikov left and lives on this fiction.
Sonya leaves for a batch of prisoners, in which Raskolnikov was sent to hard labor. Dunya and Razumikhin got married, both plan to move to Siberia in five years. After some time, Pulcheria Alexandrovna dies of longing for her son. Sonya regularly writes to Rodion's relatives about his life in hard labor.
Chapter 2
In hard labor, Rodion could not find a common language with other prisoners: everyone did not like him and avoided him, considering him an atheist. The young man reflects on his fate, he is ashamed that he ruined his life so ineptly and stupidly. Svidrigailov, who managed to commit suicide, seems to the young man stronger in spirit than himself.
Sonya, who came to Rodion, fell in love with all the prisoners, at a meeting they took off their hats in front of her. The girl gave them money and things from relatives.
Raskolnikov fell ill, is in the hospital, recovering heavily and slowly. Sonya visited him regularly, and one day Rodion, crying, threw himself at her feet and began to hug the girl's knees. Sonya was frightened at first, but then she realized "that he loves, loves her endlessly." “They were resurrected by love, the heart of one included endless sources of life for the heart of the other”
Conclusion
In the novel "Crime and Punishment" Dostoevsky examines the issues of human morality, virtue and the human right to kill one's neighbor. Using the example of the protagonist, the author shows that any crime is impossible without punishment - the student Raskolnikov, who, wishing to become as great a personality as his idol Napoleon, kills the old pawnbroker, but cannot bear the moral torment after the deed and himself confesses his fault. In the novel, Dostoevsky emphasizes that even the greatest goals and ideas are not worth a human life.
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PART 1
“At the beginning of July, in an extremely hot time, in the evening, one young man came out of his closet, which he hired from tenants in S-th Lane, into the street and slowly, as if in indecision, went to the K-nu bridge.”
He avoids meeting with the landlady, as he has a large debt. “It’s not that he is so cowardly and downtrodden ... but for some time he was in an irritable and tense state, similar to hypochondria ... He was crushed by poverty.” A young man thinks about some business he has planned (“Am I capable of this?”). “He was remarkably good-looking, with beautiful dark eyes, dark-haired, taller than average, thin and slender,” but so badly dressed that in such rags it would be a shame for another person to go out into the street. He goes “to test his enterprise”, and therefore he is worried. Approaches the house, which "was all in small apartments and was inhabited by all sorts of industrialists." Climbing the stairs, he feels fear and thinks about how he would feel, “if it really somehow happened to get to the point”
He calls, a “tiny dry old woman, about sixty years old, with sharp and angry eyes, with a small pointed nose and simple hair, opens it for him. Her blond, slightly graying hair was greasyly oiled. On her thin and long neck, resembling a chicken leg, some kind of flannel rag was wrapped around, and on her shoulders, despite the heat, all the disheveled and yellowed fur katsaveyka dangled. The young man reminds him that he is Raskolnikov, a student who had been here a month earlier. He enters a room furnished with old furniture, but clean, says that he brought a mortgage, and shows an old flat silver watch, promises to bring another little thing the other day, takes the money and leaves.
Raskolnikov torments himself with thoughts that what he conceived is "dirty, dirty, disgusting." In the tavern, he drinks beer, and his doubts are dispelled.
Raskolnikov usually avoided society, but in the tavern he talks with a man “already over fifty years old, of average height and heavy build, with gray hair and a large bald head, with a yellow, even greenish face swollen from constant drunkenness and with swollen eyelids, because of which tiny eyes shone. It "had both meaning and intelligence." He introduces himself to Raskolnikov as follows: “I am a titular adviser, Marmeladov.” He says in response that he is studying. Marmeladov tells him that “poverty is not a vice, it is the truth”: “I know that drunkenness is not a virtue, and even more so.
But poverty, sir, poverty is a vice. In poverty, you still retain your nobility of innate feelings; in poverty, no one ever does. For poverty, they are not even driven out with a stick, but swept out of human company with a broom, so that it would be all the more insulting; and justly, for in poverty I myself am the first ready to offend myself. He talks about his wife, whose name is Katerina Ivanovna. She is "a lady, though generous, but unfair." With her first husband, who was an officer, she ran away without receiving parental blessings. Her husband beat her, he liked to play cards. She gave birth to three children. When her husband died, Katerina Ivanovna, out of hopelessness, remarried Marmeladov.
She is constantly at work, but "with a weak chest and inclined to consumption." Marmeladov was an official, but then he lost his job. He was also married and has a daughter Sonya. In order to somehow support herself and her family, Sonya was forced to go to the panel. She lives in the apartment of the tailor Kapernaumov, whose family is "tongue-tied". Marmeladov stole the key to the chest from his wife and took the money, with which he drank for the sixth day in a row. He was at Sonya's, "he went to ask for a hangover," and she gave him thirty kopecks, "the last, all that was." Rodion Raskolnikov takes him home, where he meets Katerina Ivanovna. She was "a terribly thin woman, thin, rather tall and slender, with beautiful dark blond hair ...
Her eyes shone as if in a fever, but her gaze was sharp and motionless, and this consumptive and agitated face produced a painful impression. Her children were in the room: a girl of about six was sleeping on the floor, a boy was crying in the corner, and a thin girl of about nine was calming him down. There is a scandal over the money that Marmeladov drank away. Leaving, Raskolnikov takes from his pocket “how much copper money he got from the ruble exchanged in the drinking-room,” and leaves it on the window. On the way, Raskolnikov thinks: “Oh, Sonya! What a well, however, they managed to dig! and enjoy!
In the morning, Raskolnikov "with hatred" examines his closet. “It was a tiny cell, about six paces long, which had the most miserable appearance with its yellowish, dusty wallpaper everywhere lagging behind the wall, and so low that it became terrifying for a slightly tall person, and everything seemed to be you hit your head on the ceiling. The furniture matched the room. The hostess has already "two weeks since she stopped letting him eat." The cook Nastasya brings tea and says that the hostess wants to report him to the police. The girl also brings a letter from her mother. Raskolnikov is reading. The mother asks him for forgiveness for not being able to send the money.
He learns that his sister, Dunya, who worked as a governess for the Svidrigailovs, has been at home for a month and a half. As it turned out, Svidrigailov, who "had long ago had a passion for Dunya," began to persuade the girl to a love affair. This conversation was accidentally overheard by Svidrigailov's wife, Marfa Petrovna, who blamed Dunya for what happened and, having kicked her out, spread gossip throughout the county. For this reason, acquaintances preferred not to have any relationship with the Raskolnikovs. However, Svidrigailov "came to his senses and repented" and "provided Marfa Petrovna full and obvious evidence of this Dunechkina's innocence."
Marfa Petrovna informed her acquaintances about this, and immediately the attitude towards Raskolnikov changed. This story contributed to the fact that Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin (“he is a businesslike and busy man and hurries to St. Petersburg”) wooed Dunya, and “this is a firm, prudent, patient and generous girl, although with an ardent heart.” There is no love between them, but Dunya "for her duty will set herself to make her husband's happiness." Luzhin wanted to marry an honest girl who did not have a dowry, “who had already experienced a plight; because, as he explained, a husband should not owe anything to his wife, but it is much better if the wife considers her husband to be her benefactor.
He is going to open a public law office in St. Petersburg. Mother hopes that in the future Luzhin will be able to be useful to Rodion, and is going to come to St. Petersburg, where Luzhin will soon marry his sister. He promises to send him thirty-five rubles.
Raskolnikov read the letter and wept. Then he lay down, but thoughts haunted him. He "grabbed his hat, went out" and headed towards Vasilyevsky Island through V-th Avenue. Passers-by mistook him for a drunk.
Raskolnikov realizes that his sister, in order to help him, her brother, is selling herself. He intends to interfere with this marriage, he is angry with Luzhin. Arguing with himself, sorting through each line of the letter, Raskolnikov remarks: “Luzhin’s purity is the same as Sonechkin’s purity, and maybe even worse, uglier, meaner, because you, Dunechka, still count on excess comfort, and there it’s just about starvation, it’s a matter of! He cannot accept his sister's sacrifices. Raskolnikov torments himself for a long time with questions that "were not new, not sudden, but old, sore, old." He wants to sit down and is looking for a bench, but then he suddenly sees a drunken teenage girl on the boulevard, who, obviously, having drunk, dishonored and kicked out.
She falls onto the bench. “Before him was an extremely young face, about sixteen years old, maybe even only fifteen, small, blond, pretty, but all flushed and as if swollen.” A gentleman has already been found who is trying on a girl, but Raskolnikov interferes with him. “This gentleman was about thirty, dense, fat, blood-and-milk, with pink lips and a mustache, and very smartly dressed.” Raskolnikov is angry and therefore shouts to him: “Svidrigailov, get out!” - and pounces on him with his fists. The policeman intervenes in the fight, listens to Raskolnikov, and then, having received money from Raskolnikov, takes the girl home in a cab. Rodion Raskolnikov, talking about what awaits this girl in the future, comes to the understanding that her fate awaits many.
He goes to his friend Razumikhin, who "was one of his former university comrades." Raskolnikov studied hard, did not communicate with anyone and did not take part in any events, he "as if he was hiding something to himself." Razumikhin, “tall, thin, always poorly shaven, black-haired”, “was an unusually cheerful and sociable guy, kind to the point of simplicity. However, under this simplicity both depth and dignity lurked. Everyone loved him. He did not attach importance to life's difficulties. “He was very poor and decidedly himself, alone, supported himself, earning money by some work.” It happened that he did not heat the room in winter and claimed that he slept better in the cold. He now temporarily did not study, but was in a hurry to improve things in order to continue his studies. About two months ago, the friends saw each other briefly on the street, but did not disturb each other with communication.
Razumikhin promised to help Raskolnikov "learn lessons." Not understanding himself why he is dragging himself to a friend, Raskolnikov decides: “After that, I’ll go when it’s already over and when everything goes in a new way.” And he catches himself thinking that he is seriously thinking about what he has planned, he thinks as about a matter that he must bring to the end. He goes where his eyes look. In a nervous chill, he "passed Vasilyevsky Island, went to the Malaya Neva, crossed the bridge and turned to the islands." He stops and counts the money: about thirty kopecks. He calculates that he left about fifty kopecks with Marmeladov. In the tavern he drinks a glass of vodka and eats a pie already on the street. He stops “in complete exhaustion” and falls asleep in the bushes before reaching the house. He sees in a dream that he, a little boy, about seven years old, is walking with his father outside the city.
Not far from the last of the city gardens stood a tavern, which always aroused fear in him, since a lot of drunken and pugnacious peasants wandered around. Rodion and his father go to the cemetery, where the grave of his younger brother is located, past the tavern, next to which stands a “skinny savras peasant nag” harnessed to a large cart. From the tavern, a drunken Mikolka is heading towards the cart, who offers to sit on it to a noisy, spreeful crowd. The horse cannot move the cart with so many riders, and Mikolka begins to whip it with a whip.
Someone tries to stop him, and two guys flog the horse from the sides. With several blows of the crowbar, Mikolka kills the horse. Little Raskolnikov runs “up to the Savraska, grabs her dead, bloody muzzle and kisses her, kisses her eyes, lips,” and then “in a frenzy, he rushes with his fists at Mikolka.” The father takes him away. Waking up covered in sweat, Raskolnikov asks himself: is he capable of murder? Yesterday he did a “test” and realized that he was not capable. He is ready to renounce his "damned dream", he feels free.
Heading home through Sennaya Square. He sees Lizaveta Ivanovna, the younger sister of "the same old woman Alena Ivanovna, collegiate registrar and pawnbroker, who had a visit yesterday." Lizaveta “was a tall, clumsy, timid and humble girl, almost an idiot, thirty-five years old, who was in complete slavery to her sister, worked for her day and night, trembled before her and even suffered beatings from her.” Raskolnikov hears that Lizaveta is being invited to visit tomorrow, so that the old woman “will stay at home alone,” and realizes that “he no longer has any freedom of mind or will, and that everything has suddenly been decided completely.”
There was nothing unusual in the fact that Lizaveta was invited to visit, she traded in women's things, which she bought from "visiting impoverished" families, and also "took commissions, went about business and had a lot of practice, because she was very honest and always spoke extreme price.
Student Pokorev, leaving, gave the address of the old woman to Raskolnikov, "if he had to pawn something in case." About a month and a half ago, he took there the ring that his sister gave him when parting. At first glance, he felt an “irresistible disgust” for the old woman and, taking two “tickets”, went to the tavern. Entering the tavern, Raskolnikov inadvertently overheard what the officer and student were talking about the old pawnbroker and Lizaveta. According to the student, the old woman is a “glorious woman”, since “you can always get money from her”: “She is rich, like a Jew, she can give out five thousand at once, and she does not disdain a ruble mortgage.
She has had many of ours. Only a terrible bitch. The student tells that the old woman keeps Lizaveta in "perfect enslavement". After the death of the old woman, Lizaveta should not receive anything, since everything is written off to the monastery. The student said that without any shame of conscience he would have killed and robbed the "damned old woman", because so many people are disappearing, and in the meantime "a thousand good deeds and undertakings ... can be corrected for the old woman's money." The officer noticed that she was “unworthy of life,” but “there is nature here,” and asked the student the question: “Will you kill the old woman yourself or not?” "Of course no! the student replied. “I’m for justice ... It’s not about me here ...”
Raskolnikov, worried, realizes that in his head “just born ... exactly the same thoughts” about murder for the sake of higher justice, like an unfamiliar student.
Returning from the Hay, Raskolnikov lies motionless for about an hour, then falls asleep. In the morning Nastasya brings him tea and soup. Raskolnikov prepares to kill. To do this, he sews a belt loop under his coat to secure the ax, then wraps a piece of wood with a piece of iron in paper - he makes an imitation of a "mortgage" to distract the old woman's attention.
Raskolnikov believes that crimes are so easily revealed, since “the criminal himself, and almost everyone, at the moment of the crime, undergoes some kind of decline in will and reason, replaced, on the contrary, by phenomenal childish frivolity, and precisely at the moment when the most necessary mind and caution. According to his conviction, it turned out that this eclipse of the mind and the decline of the will seize a person like an illness, develop gradually and reach its highest moment shortly before the commission of the crime; continue in the same form at the very moment of the crime and for some time after it, judging by the individual; then they pass, just as any disease passes. Not finding the ax in the kitchen, Raskolnikov "was terribly amazed," but then stole the ax from the janitor's room.
On the way, he walks "sedately" so as not to arouse suspicion. He is not afraid, because his thoughts are occupied with something else: “so, it’s true, those who are being led to execution cling in their thoughts to all the objects that they meet on the road.”
He does not meet anyone on the stairs, he notices that on the second floor in the apartment the door is open, as it is being renovated. When he reaches the door, he rings. They don't open it for him. Raskolnikov listens and realizes that someone is standing outside the door. After the third call, he hears that the constipation is being relieved.
Raskolnikov frightened the old woman by pulling the door towards him, as he was afraid that she would close it. She did not pull the door towards her, but did not release the handle of the lock. He almost pulled the handle of the lock, along with the door, onto the stairs. Raskolnikov goes to the room, where he gives the old woman the prepared “mortgage”. Taking advantage of the fact that the pawnbroker went to the window to examine the “mortgage” and “stands behind him,” Raskolnikov takes out an ax. “His hands were terribly weak; he himself heard how they, with every moment, became more and more dumb and stiff. He was afraid that he would release and drop the ax ... suddenly his head seemed to be spinning. He hits the old woman on the head with a butt.
“It’s as if his strength was not there. But as soon as he lowered the ax once, then strength was born in him. After making sure that the old woman is dead, he carefully takes out the keys from her pocket. When he finds himself in the bedroom, it seems to him that the old woman is still alive, and, grabbing an ax, he runs back to strike again, but he sees a “string” around the neck of the murdered woman, on which hang two crosses, an icon and a “small greasy suede purse with steel rim and ring. He puts the wallet in his pocket. Among the clothes he looks for golden things, but does not have time to take much. Suddenly, Lizaveta appears, and Raskolnikov rushes at her with an ax. After that, fear takes over. Every minute he grows disgusted with what he has done.
In the kitchen, he washes away traces of blood from his hands and an ax, from his boots. He sees that the door is ajar, and therefore “locked it”. He listens and understands that someone is rising "here". The doorbell rings, but Raskolnikov does not answer. Behind the door, they notice that it is hooked, from the inside, they suspect that something has happened. Two of the visitors go downstairs to call the janitor. One stays at the door, but then also comes down. At this moment, Rodion Raskolnikov leaves the apartment, goes down the stairs and hides in the apartment where the renovation is going on.
When people go up to the old pawnbroker, Raskolnikov runs from the scene of the crime. At home, he needs to discreetly put the ax back. Since the janitor is not visible, Raskolnikov puts the ax back in its original place. He returns to the room and, without undressing, throws himself on the sofa, where he lies in oblivion. “If anyone had entered the room at that time, he would have immediately jumped up and screamed. Scraps and fragments of some thoughts swarmed in his head; but he could not grab a single one, he could not stop at a single one, despite even his efforts ... "
PART TWO
The first thought that flashes through Raskolnikov when he wakes up is that he will "go crazy." Chills him. He jumps up and looks at himself at the window to see if there are any clues, repeats the inspection three times. Seeing that the fringe on his pantaloons is stained with blood, he cuts it off. He hides the stolen things in a hole under the paper. When he takes off his boot, he notices that the tip of his toe is covered in blood. After that, he checks everything a few more times, but then falls on the sofa and falls asleep. Waking up from a knock on the door. A janitor appears with a summons to the police. Raskolnikov has no idea why he is called. He decides that they want to lure him into a trap in this way.
He intends to confess if asked about the murder. At the station, the scribe sends him to the clerk. He informs Raskolnikov that he was summoned in the case of the recovery of money by the landlady. Raskolnikov explains his situation: he wanted to marry the daughter of the landlady, spent, slapped bills; when the master's daughter died of typhus, her mother began to demand payment of bills. “The clerk began to dictate to him the form of an ordinary recall in such a case, that is, I can’t pay, I promise then (someday), I won’t leave the city, I won’t sell or give away property, and so on.”
In the precinct they are talking about the murder of an old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov faints. When he comes to, he says he doesn't feel well. Once on the street, he is tormented by the thought that he is suspected.
After making sure that he did not have a search in his room, Raskolnikov takes the stolen things and "loads his pockets with them." He heads to the embankment of the Catherine Canal to get rid of all this, but refuses this intention, because "they might notice there." Goes to the Neva. Coming to the square from V-th Avenue, he notices the entrance to the courtyard, "a deaf fenced off place." He hides the stolen things under a stone, without even looking at how much money was in his wallet, for the sake of which "he took all the torment and deliberately went to such a vile, nasty deed." Everything that he meets along the way seems to be hateful to him.
He comes to Razumikhin, who notices that his friend is sick and delirious. Raskolnikov wants to leave, but Razumikhin stops him and offers to help. Raskolnikov leaves. On the embankment, he almost falls under a passing carriage, for which the coachman whips him on the back with a whip. The merchant's wife gives him two kopecks, as she takes him for a beggar. Raskolnikov throws a coin into the Neva.
Goes to bed at home. Delirious. It seems to him that Ilya Petrovich is beating the landlady, and she is screaming loudly. Opening his eyes, he sees the cook Nastasya in front of him, who brought him a bowl of soup. He asks why they beat the hostess. The cook says that no one beat her, that it is the blood in him that screams. Raskolnikov falls into unconsciousness.
When Raskolnikov woke up on the fourth day, Nastasya and a young guy in a caftan, with a beard, who "looked like an artel worker" were standing at his bedside. The hostess looked out of the door, who “was shy and endured conversations and explanations with difficulty, she was about forty years old, and she was fat and fat, black-browed and black-eyed, kind from fat and from laziness; and even very pretty with herself. Razumikhin enters. The guy in the caftan actually turns out to be an artel worker from the merchant Shelopaev. The artel worker reports that through their office a transfer from his mother came to Raskolnikov's name, and gives him 35 rubles.
Razumikhin tells Raskolnikov that Zosimov examined him and said that it was nothing serious that he now dined here every day, since the hostess, Pashenka, honors him with all her heart, that he found him and got acquainted with the affairs, that he vouched for him and gave Chebarov ten rubles. He gives Raskolnikov a loan letter. Raskolnikov asks him what he was talking about in delirium. He replies that he was muttering something about earrings, chains, about Krestovy Island, about a janitor, about Nikodim Fomich and Ilya Petrovich, for some reason he was very interested in socks, fringe from pantaloons. Razumikhin takes ten rubles and leaves, promising to return in an hour. After examining the room and making sure that everything he hid remained in place, Raskolnikov falls asleep again. Razumikhin brings clothes from Fedyaev's shop and shows them to Raskolnikov, while Nastasya makes her remarks about the purchases.
To examine the sick Raskolnikov, a medical student named Zosimov comes, “a tall and fat man, with a puffy and colorless-pale, smooth-shaven face, with blond straight hair, wearing glasses and with a large gold ring on his finger swollen from fat. He was twenty-seven years old ... All those who knew him found him a difficult person, but they said that he knew his business. There is a conversation about the murder of an old woman. Raskolnikov turns to the wall and examines the flower on the wallpaper, as he feels that his arms and legs are going numb. Razumikhin, meanwhile, reports that the dyer Mikolai has already been arrested on suspicion of murder, and Koch and Pestryakov, who had been detained earlier, were released.
Mikolay drank for several days in a row, and then brought a case with gold earrings to the owner of the tavern, Dushkin, which he, in his words, “raised on the panel.” After drinking a couple of glasses and taking change from one ruble, Mikolay ran away. He was detained after a thorough search for “a nearby outpost, in an inn,” where he wanted to hang himself drunk in a shed. Mikolay swears that he did not kill, that he found the earrings behind the door on the floor where he and Mitriy were painting. Zosimov and Razumikhin are trying to reconstruct the picture of the murder. Zosimov doubts that the real killer has been detained.
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin arrives, “older in years, prim, portly, with a cautious and obese physiognomy”, and, looking around Raskolnikov’s “cramped and low“ sea cabin ”, reports that his sister and mother are coming. “In general terms, Pyotr Petrovich was struck by something special, as it were, namely, something that seemed to justify the name “groom”, so unceremoniously given to him now. In the first place, it was obvious, and even too noticeable, that Pyotr Petrovich was in a hurry to take advantage of a few days in the capital in order to have time to dress up and put on make-up while waiting for the bride, which, however, was very innocent and permissible.
Even his own, perhaps even too self-satisfied, his own consciousness of his pleasant change for the better could be forgiven for such an occasion, for Pyotr Petrovich was on the line of the groom. Luzhin regrets that he found Raskolnikov in such a state, reports that his sister and mother will temporarily stay in the rooms maintained by the merchant Yushin, who found them an apartment, but temporarily he himself lives in the rooms of Mrs. Lippevechsel in the apartment of a friend, Andrey Semenych Lebezyatnikov. Luzhin talks about progress driven by self-interest.
“If, for example, I have been told up to now: “love,” and I loved, then what came of it? Pyotr Petrovich continued, perhaps with excessive haste, “it turned out that I tore my caftan in half, shared it with my neighbor, and both of us remained half naked, according to the Russian proverb: “You follow several hares at once, and you won’t achieve a single one.” Science says: love yourself first of all, for everything in the world is based on personal interest. If you love yourself alone, then you will do your business properly and your caftan will remain intact. Economic truth, however, adds that the more private affairs are arranged in a society and, so to speak, whole coats, the more solid foundations for it and the more a common cause is arranged in it.
Therefore, by acquiring solely and exclusively for myself, I thereby acquire, as it were, for everyone and lead to the fact that my neighbor receives a slightly more torn caftan, and no longer from private, individual generosity, but as a result of universal prosperity. Talk about murder again. Zosimov reports that they are interrogating those who brought things to the old woman. Luzhin discusses the reasons for the growth of crime. Raskolnikov and Luzhin quarrel. Zosimov and Razumikhin, leaving Raskolnikov's room, notice that Raskolnikov does not react to anything, "except for one point, from which he loses his temper: murder ...". Zosimov asks Razumikhin to tell him more about Raskolnikov. Nastasya asks Raskolnikov if he will drink some tea. He frantically turns his back to the wall.
Left alone, Raskolnikov puts on a dress bought by Razumikhin and leaves to roam the streets unnoticed by anyone. He is sure that he will not return home, because he needs to end his former life, he "does not want to live like this." He wants to talk to someone, but no one cares about him. He listens to the singing of women at the house, which was "all under drinking and other eating establishments." Gives the girl "for a drink." He talks about who was sentenced to death: let it be on a high rock above the ocean, let it be on a small platform on which only two legs fit, but just to live. He reads newspapers in a tavern.
With Zametov, who was in the station during Raskolnikov's fainting and later visited him during his illness, they begin to talk about the murder. “Raskolnikov’s motionless and serious face was transformed in an instant, and suddenly he again burst into the same nervous laughter as before, as if he himself was completely unable to restrain himself. And in an instant he recalled, with extreme clarity of feeling, one recent moment when he stood outside the door, with an ax, the lock jumped, they were cursing and breaking behind the door, and he suddenly felt like shouting at them, cursing with them, sticking out their tongue, teasing them laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh!" Zametov notes that he is "either crazy or ...".
Raskolnikov talks about counterfeiters, and then, when the conversation returns to the murder, he says what he would do in the place of the killer: he would hide the stolen things in a remote place under a stone and not get them for a couple of years. Zametov again calls him crazy. “That one's eyes sparkled; he turned terribly pale; his upper lip trembled and twitched. He leaned as close as possible to Zametov and began to move his lips, saying nothing; this went on for half a minute; he knew what he was doing, but he couldn't help himself. The terrible word, like the constipation in the door of that time, jumped on his lips: it was about to break; just about to let him down, just about to utter it!” He asks Zametov: “What if I killed the old woman and Lizaveta?”, And then leaves. On the porch he runs into Razumikhin, who invites him to a housewarming party. Raskolnikov wants to be left alone, as he cannot recover due to being constantly annoyed.
On the bridge, Raskolnikov sees a woman who rushes down, watches as she is being pulled out. Thinking about suicide.
He finds himself at "that" house, in which he has not been since "that" evening. "An irresistible and inexplicable desire drew him in." He examines the stairs with curiosity, notices that the apartment, which was renovated, is locked. In the apartment where the murder took place, the walls are covered with new wallpaper. “For some reason, Raskolnikov did not like this terribly; he looked at this new wallpaper with hostility, as if it were a pity that everything had changed so much. When the workers asked Raskolnikov what he needed, he “got up, went out into the hallway, grabbed the bell and pulled.
The same bell, the same tin sound! He pulled a second, third time; he listened and remembered. The former, excruciatingly terrible, ugly feeling began to be remembered more and more vividly, he shuddered with every blow, and it became more and more pleasant for him. Raskolnikov says that “there was a whole puddle here,” and now the blood has been washed away. Going down the stairs, Raskolnikov goes to the exit, where he meets several people, among them a janitor, who asks him why he came. “Look,” Raskolnikov replies. The janitor and the others decide that it is not worth messing with him, and they drive him away.
Raskolnikov sees a crowd of people who have surrounded a man who has just been crushed by horses, "poorly dressed, but in a" noble "dress, covered in blood." The master's carriage stands in the middle of the street, and the driver laments that he shouted, they say, to beware, but he was drunk. Raskolnikov recognizes the unfortunate Marmeladov. He asks for a doctor and says that he knows where Marmeladov lives. The crushed man is carried home, where three children, Polenka, Lidochka and a boy, listen to Katerina Ivanovna's memories of their past life. Marmeladov's wife undresses her husband, and Raskolnikov sends for the doctor. Katerina Ivanovna sends Paul to Sonya, shouting at those gathered in the room. Marmeladov at death. They send for the priest.
The doctor, having examined Marmeladov, says that he is about to die. The priest confesses the dying man, and then communes him, everyone prays. Sonya appears, “also in rags; her outfit was cheap, but decorated in a street style, according to the taste and rules that have developed in her own special world, with a bright and shameful outstanding goal. She "was small, about eighteen years old, thin, but rather pretty blonde, with wonderful blue eyes." Before his death, Marmeladov asks for forgiveness from his daughter. Dies in her arms. Raskolnikov gives Katerina Ivanovna twenty-five rubles and leaves. In the crowd, he stumbles upon Nikodim Fomich, whom he has not seen since the scene in the office.
Nikodim Fomich says to Raskolnikov: “However, how did you wet yourself with blood,” to which he remarks: “I am covered in blood.” Raskolnikov is overtaken by Polenka, who was sent for him by his mother and Sonya. Raskolnikov asks her to pray for him and promises to come tomorrow. He thought: “Strength, strength is needed: without strength you can’t take anything; but strength must be obtained by force, and that’s what they don’t know.” “Pride and self-confidence grew in him every minute; already in the next minute it was not the same person that was in the previous one. He comes to Razumikhin.
He escorts him home and during the conversation admits that Zametov and Ilya Petrovich suspected Raskolnikov of the murder, but Zametov now repents of this. He adds that the investigator, Porfiry Petrovich, wants to get to know him. Raskolnikov says that he saw one man die and that he gave all the money to his widow.
Approaching the house, they notice a light in the window. Raskolnikov's mother and sister are waiting in the room. Seeing him, they joyfully rush to him. Rodion loses consciousness. Razumikhin reassures women. They are very grateful to him, because they heard about him from Nastasya.
PART THREE
Having come to his senses, Raskolnikov asks Pulcheria Alexandrovna, who intended to stay overnight with her son, to return to where she and Dunya had stopped. Razumikhin promises that he will stay with him. Raskolnikov tells his sister and mother, whom he has not seen for three years, that he kicked out Luzhin. He asks his sister not to marry this man, because he does not want such a sacrifice from her. Mother and sister are confused. Razumikhin promises them that he will settle everything. “He stood with both ladies, grabbing them both by the hands, persuading them and presenting them with reasons with amazing frankness and, probably, for greater persuasion, almost at every word of his, firmly, tightly, as in a vise, squeezed both of their hands to the point of pain. and seemed to be devouring Avdotya Romanovna with his eyes, not at all embarrassed by this ...
Avdotya Romanovna, although not of a shy nature, met with amazement and almost even fright the gazes of her brother's friend, sparkling with wild fire, and only the boundless power of attorney, inspired by Nastasya's stories about this strange man, kept her from attempting to run away from him and drag her after her. his mother." Razumikhin escorts both ladies to the rooms where they are staying. Dunya tells her mother that "you can rely on him." She "was remarkably good-looking - tall, surprisingly slender, strong, self-confident - which was expressed in every gesture of her and which, however, did not in the least detract from her movements of softness and grace. Her face was similar to her brother, but she could even be called a beauty. Her hair was dark brown, a little lighter than her brother's; his eyes are almost black, sparkling, proud, and at the same time, sometimes, at times, unusually kind.
She was pale, but not sickly pale; her face shone with freshness and health. Her mouth was a little small, while her lower lip, fresh and scarlet, protruded a little forward. Her mother looked younger than her forty-three years. “Her hair was already beginning to turn gray and thin, small radiant wrinkles had long appeared near her eyes, her cheeks were sunken and dried up from care and grief, and yet this face was beautiful. It was a portrait of Dunechkin's face, only twenty years later. Razumikhin brings Zosimov to the women, who tells them about Raskolnikov's condition. Razumikhin and Zosimov leave. Zosimov remarks: “What a delightful girl this Avdotya Romanovna is!” This causes an angry outburst from Razumikhin.
In the morning, Razumikhin realizes that “something unusual happened to him, that he took into himself one impression, hitherto completely unknown to him and unlike all the previous ones.” He is afraid to think about yesterday's meeting with Raskolnikov's relatives, as he was drunk and did a lot of things that were not permissible. He sees Zosimov, who reproaches him for talking a lot. After that, Razumikhin goes to Bakaleev's rooms, where the ladies are staying. Pulcheria Alexandrovna asks him about her son. “I have known Rodion for a year and a half: gloomy, gloomy, arrogant and proud,” says Razumikhin, “lately (or maybe much earlier) I have been suspicious and a hypochondriac.
Magnanimous and kind. He does not like to express his feelings and will sooner do cruelty than the heart will express in words. Sometimes, however, he is not a hypochondriac at all, but simply cold and insensitive to the point of inhumanity, really, as if in him two opposite characters are alternately replaced. Terribly taciturn sometimes! He has no time for everything, everything interferes with him, but he himself lies, does nothing. Not mocking, and not because there was not enough wit, but as if he did not have enough time for such trifles. Doesn't listen to what they say. Never interested in what everyone is interested in at the moment. He values himself terribly highly and, it seems, not without some right to do so.
They talk about how Raskolnikov wanted to get married, but the wedding did not take place due to the death of the bride. Pulcheria Alexandrovna says that in the morning they received a note from Luzhin, who was supposed to meet them at the station yesterday, but sent a lackey, saying that he would come the next morning. Luzhin did not come, as promised, but sent a note in which he insists that Rodion Romanovich “no longer be present at the general meeting”, and also brings to their attention that Raskolnikov gave all the money that his mother gave him, “ girl of notorious behavior, ”the daughter of a drunkard who was crushed by a carriage. Razumikhin advises to do as Avdotya Romanovna decided, according to which it is necessary that Rodion come to them at eight o'clock. Together with Razumikhin, the ladies go to Raskolnikov. Climbing the stairs, they see that the door of the hostess is ajar and someone is watching from there. As soon as they are level with the door, it suddenly slams shut.
The women enter the room where Zosimov meets them. Raskolnikov put himself in order and looked almost healthy, “only he was very pale, absent-minded and gloomy. Outwardly, he looked like a wounded person or enduring some kind of severe physical pain: his eyebrows were shifted, his lips were compressed, his eyes were inflamed. Zosimov notes that with the arrival of his relatives, he developed “a heavy hidden determination to endure an hour or two of torture, which cannot be avoided ... He later saw how almost every word of the ensuing conversation touched some wound of his patient and stirred it; but at the same time, he was somewhat surprised at today’s ability to control himself and hide his feelings of yesterday’s monomaniac, because of the slightest word yesterday he almost fell into a rage.
Zosimov tells Raskolnikov that recovery depends only on himself, that he needs to continue his studies at the university, since "work and a goal firmly set for himself" could greatly help him. Raskolnikov is trying to calm his mother, telling her that he was going to come to them, but “the dress was delayed”, since it was in the blood of one official who died and whose wife received from him all the money that his mother sent him. And he adds at the same time: “I, however, had no right, I confess, especially knowing how you yourself got this money.
To help, you must first have the right to have such a right. Pulcheria Alexandrovna reports that Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova has died. Raskolnikov notes that they will still have time to "talk." “One recent terrible sensation like a dead cold passed through his soul; again, it suddenly became completely clear and understandable to him that he had just told a terrible lie, that not only would he never have time to talk enough now, but he could no longer talk about anything else, never with anyone. Zosimov leaves. Raskolnikov asks his sister if she likes Razumikhin.
She replies, "Very." Rodion recalls his love for the master's daughter, who was always sick, loved to give to the poor and dreamed of a monastery. The mother compares her son's apartment to a coffin and remarks that because of her, he has become such a melancholic. Dunya, trying to justify herself to her brother, says that she is getting married primarily for her own sake.
Raskolnikov reads Luzhin's letter, which his sister and mother show him, and notices that Luzhin "writes illiterately." Avdotya Romanovna stands up for him: "Peter Petrovich does not hide the fact that he studied with copper money, and even boasted that he had paved his own way." Dunya asks his brother to come to them in the evening. She also invites Razumikhin.
Sonya Marmeladova enters the room. “Now she was a modestly and even poorly dressed girl, still very young, almost like a girl, with a modest and decent manner, with a clear, but, as it were, somewhat frightened face. She was wearing a very simple house dress, on her head was an old hat of the same style; only in the hands was, in yesterday's way, an umbrella. Raskolnikov "suddenly saw that this humiliated creature had already been humiliated to such an extent that he suddenly felt sorry."
The girl says that Katerina Ivanovna sent her to invite Raskolnikov to the wake. He promises to come. Pulcheria Alexandrovna and her daughter do not take their eyes off the guest, but when they leave, only Avdotya Romanovna says goodbye to her. On the street, a mother tells her daughter that she looks like her brother not in face, but in soul: "... both of you are melancholic, both gloomy and quick-tempered, both arrogant and both generous." Dunechka comforts her mother, who is worried about how the evening will go. Pulcheria Alexandrovna admits that she is afraid of Sonya.
Raskolnikov, in a conversation with Razumikhin, notices that the old woman had in pawn his silver watch, which passed to him from his father, as well as a ring that his sister gave him. He wants to take these things. Razumikhin advises to address this to the investigator, Porfiry Petrovich.
Raskolnikov escorts Sonya to the corner, takes her address and promises to come in. Left alone, she feels something new in herself. "A whole new world unknown and vaguely descended into her soul." Sonya is afraid that Raskolnikov will see her miserable room.
A man is following Sonya. “He was a man of about fifty, taller than average, portly, with broad and steep shoulders, which gave him a somewhat stooped appearance. He was smartly and comfortably dressed and looked like a portly gentleman. In his hands was a beautiful cane, with which he tapped, with every step, on the sidewalk, and his hands were in fresh gloves. His broad, cheeky face was rather pleasant, and his complexion was fresh, not Petersburg.
His hair, which was still very thick, was quite blond and a little grey, and his broad, thick beard, descending like a shovel, was even lighter than his head hair. His eyes were blue and looked coldly, intently and thoughtfully; red lips." He follows her and, having found out where she lives, is glad that they are neighbors.
On the way to Porfiry Petrovich, Razumikhin is visibly agitated. Raskolnikov teases him, laughing out loud. That is how, with a laugh, he enters Porfiry Petrovich.
Raskolnikov offers his hand to Porfiry Petrovich, Razumikhin, waving his hand, accidentally knocks over a table with a glass of tea standing on it and, embarrassed, goes to the window. In the corner, Zametov sits on a chair, who looks at Raskolnikov "with some kind of confusion." “Porfiry Petrovich was at home, in a dressing gown, in very clean linen and worn-out shoes. He was a man of about thirty-five, below average height, plump and even with a belly, clean-shaven, without a mustache and without sideburns, with tightly cut hair on a large round head, somehow especially convexly rounded at the back of the head.
His plump, round and slightly snub-nosed face was the color of a sick man, dark yellow, but rather cheerful and even mocking. It would even be good-natured, if the expression of the eyes, with a kind of liquid, watery sheen, covered by almost white eyelashes, blinking as if winking at someone, did not interfere. The look of these eyes somehow strangely did not harmonize with the whole figure, which even had something of a woman in itself, and gave it something much more serious than at first glance one could expect from it. Raskolnikov is sure that Porfiry Petrovich knows everything about him.
He talks about his pledged things and hears that they were found wrapped in one piece of paper, on which his name and the day of the month when the pawnbroker received them were written in pencil. Porfiry Petrovich notices that all the pawnbrokers are already known and that he was waiting for the arrival of Raskolnikov.
There is a dispute about the nature and causes of crimes. The investigator recalls Raskolnikov's article entitled "On Crime", which appeared in the "Periodical speech" two months ago. Raskolnikov wonders how the investigator found out about the author, because she is "signed with a letter." The answer follows immediately: from the editor. Porfiry Petrovich reminds Raskolnikov that, according to his article, “the act of committing a crime is always accompanied by illness,” and all people “are divided into “ordinary” and “extraordinary.”
Raskolnikov explains that, in his opinion, “everyone is not only great, but also a little out of the rut people, that is, even a little bit able to say something new” should be criminals. Any victims and crimes can be justified by the greatness of the purpose for which they were committed. An ordinary person is not able to behave like someone who "has the right." Very few extraordinary people are born, their birth must be determined by the law of nature, but it is still unknown. The ordinary one will not go to the end, he will begin to repent.
Razumikhin is horrified by what he heard, from the fact that Raskolnikov's theory allows "blood to be shed in conscience." The investigator asks Raskolnikov a question whether he himself would have decided to kill "in order to somehow help all of humanity." Raskolnikov replies that he does not consider himself either Mohammed or Napoleon. “Who in Rus' doesn’t consider himself Napoleon now?” the investigator chuckles. Raskolnikov asks if he will be interrogated officially, to which Porfiry Petrovich replies that "for the time being this is not required at all."
The investigator asks Raskolnikov what time he was in the house where the murder took place, and whether he saw two dyers on the second floor. Raskolnikov, not knowing what the trap is, says that he was there at eight o'clock, but did not see the dyers. Razumikhin shouts that Raskolnikov was in the house three days before the murder, and the dyers were painting on the day of the murder. Porfiry Petrovich apologizes for mixing up the dates. Razumikhin and Raskolnikov go out into the street "gloomy and gloomy." Raskolnikov took a deep breath...
On the way, Raskolnikov and Razumikhin are discussing a meeting with Porfiry Petrovich. Raskolnikov says that the investigator has no facts to accuse him of the murder. Razumikhin is indignant that all this looks "offensive". Raskolnikov understands that Porfiry is "not at all so stupid." “I get a taste for other points!” he thinks. When they approach Bakaleev’s rooms, Raskolnikov tells Razumikhin to go up to his sister and mother, and he hurries home, because it suddenly seemed to him that something could remain in the hole where he hid the old woman’s things immediately after the murder. Finding nothing, he goes out and sees a tradesman who is talking about him with a janitor. Rodion is interested in what he needs.
The tradesman leaves, and Raskolnikov runs after him, asking him the same question. He throws in his face: “The killer!”, And then leaves, Raskolnikov follows him with his eyes. Returning to his closet, he lies for half an hour. When he hears that Razumikhin is rising to him, he pretends to be asleep, and he, having barely looked into the room, leaves. He begins to think, feeling his physical weakness: “The old woman was only a disease ... I wanted to cross as soon as possible ... I didn’t kill a person, I killed a principle! I killed the principle, but I didn’t cross over, I remained on this side ...
He only managed to kill. And even then he didn’t manage, it turns out ... ”He calls himself a louse, as he talks about it, since“ for a whole month, the all-good Providence bothered, calling to witness that he does not take it for his own, they say, flesh and lust, but has in sight of a magnificent and pleasant goal ”:“ ... I myself, maybe even nastier and more disgusting than a killed louse, and had a premonition that I would say this to myself after I had killed! He comes to the conclusion that he is a "trembling creature", as he thinks about the correctness of what he did.
Raskolnikov has a dream. He is on the street where there are a lot of people. On the sidewalk, a man waves to him. In him, he recognizes the old tradesman, who turns and slowly moves away. Raskolnikov follows him. Climbing stairs that seem familiar to him. He recognizes the apartment where he saw the workers. The tradesman is obviously hiding somewhere. Raskolnikov enters the apartment. An old woman is sitting on a chair in the corner, whom he hits on the head with an ax several times. The old woman laughs. He is overcome with rage, with all his strength he beats and beats the old woman on the head, but she only laughs more than that. The apartment is full of people who are watching what is happening and do not say anything, waiting for something. He wants to scream, but wakes up. There is a man in his room. Raskolnikov asks what he needs. He introduces himself as Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov.
PART FOUR
While Raskolnikov is wondering if he is sleeping, his guest explains that he has come to meet him and asks him to help him "in one enterprise" directly related to Dunya's interest. Svidrigailov is trying to prove that it is not true that he pursued an innocent girl in his house, as he is capable of deep feelings. Raskolnikov wants the uninvited guest to leave, but he intends to speak out. Raskolnikov listens to Svidrigailov, who considers himself innocent of the death of his wife. In his youth, Svidrigailov was a cheater, reveled, made debts, for which he was sent to prison. Marfa Petrovna redeemed him for "thirty thousand pieces of silver." For seven years they lived in the village without going anywhere.
On a name day, his wife gave him a document about these 30 thousand, issued in someone else's name, as well as a significant amount of money. He admits that he has already seen a ghost three times after the death of his wife, to which Raskolnikov invites him to go to the doctor. Svidrigailov suggests that “ghosts are, so to speak, bits and pieces of other worlds, their beginning. A healthy person, of course, does not need to see them, because a healthy person is the most earthly person, and therefore, he must live one local life, for completeness and for order.
Well, a little sick, a little disrupted the normal earthly order in the body, and immediately the possibility of another world begins to affect, and the more sick, the more contact with another world, so that when a person dies completely, he will go directly to another world ". He says that Avdotya Romanovna should not get married, that he is going to propose to her himself. He offers his assistance in upsetting Dunya's wedding with Luzhin, he is ready to offer Avdotya Romanovna ten thousand rubles, which he does not need. It was precisely because his wife "concocted" this union that he quarreled with her. Marfa Petrovna also indicated in her will that three thousand rubles be transferred to Dunya. He asks Raskolnikov to arrange a meeting with his sister. After that, he leaves and runs into Razumikhin at the door.
On the way to Bakaleev, Razumikhin asks who Raskolnikov was with. Raskolnikov explains that this is Svidrigailov, a "very strange" person who "decided on something," and remarks that Dunya must be protected from him. Razumikhin admits that he went to Porfiry, wanted to call him for a conversation, but nothing happened. In the corridor they run into Luzhin, so the three of them enter the room. Mother and Luzhin are talking about Svidrigailov, whom Pyotr Petrovich calls "the most depraved and perished in vices man of all such people."
Luzhin says that Marfa Petrovna mentioned that her husband was acquainted with a certain Resslich, a petty pawnbroker. She lived with a deaf-mute fourteen-year-old relative who hanged herself in the attic. At the denunciation of another German woman, the girl committed suicide because Svidrigailov abused her, and only thanks to the efforts and money of Marfa Petrovna did her husband manage to escape punishment. From Luzhin's words, it becomes known that Philip's servant Svidrigailov also drove him to suicide. Dunya objects, testifies that he treated the servants well. Raskolnikov reports that Svidrigailov came to him an hour and a half ago, who wants to meet Dunya in order to make her a profitable offer, and that, according to the will of Marfa Petrovna, Dunya is entitled to three thousand rubles.
Luzhin notices that his demand has not been fulfilled, and therefore he will not talk about serious matters under Raskolnikov. Dunya tells him that she intends to make a choice between Luzhin and her brother, she is afraid to make a mistake. According to Luzhin, "love for a future life partner, for a husband, must exceed love for a brother." Raskolnikov and Luzhin sort things out. Luzhin tells Duna that if he leaves now, he will never return, recalling his expenses. Raskolnikov kicks him out. Going down the stairs, Pyotr Petrovich still imagines that the matter "is still, perhaps, not completely lost and, as for some ladies, it is even" very, very" fixable."
“Peter Petrovich, having made his way out of insignificance, was painfully accustomed to admiring himself, highly valued his mind and abilities, and even sometimes, alone, admired his face in the mirror. But more than anything in the world, he loved and valued his money, obtained by labor and all means: they equaled him with everything that was higher than him. He wanted to marry a poor girl in order to dominate her. A beautiful and intelligent wife would help him make a career.
After Luzhin left, Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunechka rejoice at the break with Pyotr Petrovich. Razumikhin is completely delighted. Raskolnikov conveys to those present his conversation with Svidrigailov. Dunya is interested in the opinion of her brother. It seems to her that Svidrigailov needs to meet. Razumikhin's head is already spinning plans for his and Dunya's future. He says that with the money that the girl will get, and with his thousand, he will be able to do book publishing. Dunya supports Razumikhin's ideas. Raskolnikov also speaks approvingly of them.
Unable to get rid of thoughts of murder, Raskolnikov leaves, remarking at parting that perhaps this meeting of theirs will be the last. Dunya calls him "an insensitive, vicious egoist." Raskolnikov waits for Razumikhin in the corridor, and then asks him not to leave his mother and sister. For a minute they looked at each other in silence. Razumikhin remembered this moment all his life. Raskolnikov's burning and intent gaze seemed to intensify with every moment, penetrating into his soul, into his consciousness. Suddenly Razumikhin shuddered. Something strange seemed to pass between them ... Some idea slipped through, as if a hint; something terrible, ugly, and suddenly understood on both sides ... Razumikhin turned as pale as a dead man. Returning to Raskolnikov's relatives, Razumikhin reassured them as best he could.
Raskolnikov comes to Sonya, who lived in a wretched room, which "looked like a barn, looked like an irregular quadrangle." There was almost no furniture: a bed, a table and two wicker chairs, a chest of drawers of simple wood. "Poverty was visible." Raskolnikov apologizes for showing up so late. He came to say "one word" because they might never see each other again. Sonya says that it seemed to her that she saw her father on the street, she admits that she loves Katerina Ivanovna, who, in her opinion, is “pure”: “She believes so much that there should be justice in everything, and demands ... And at least torment her, but she will not do anything unjust."
The hostess intends to put her and her children out of the apartment. Sonya says that Katerina Ivanovna is crying, she is completely mad with grief, she keeps saying that she will go to her city, where she will open a boarding school for noble maidens, fantasizes about the future “wonderful life”. They wanted to buy shoes for the girls, but there was not enough money. Katerina Ivanovna is ill with consumption and will soon die. Raskolnikov “with a tough grin” says that if Sonya suddenly falls ill, the girls will have to follow her own path.
She objects: “God will not allow such horror!” Raskolnikov rushes about the room, and then goes up to Sonya and, bending down, kisses her leg. The girl recoils from him. “I didn’t bow to you, I bowed to all human suffering,” says Raskolnikov and calls her a sinner who “killed and betrayed herself in vain.” He asks Sonya why she doesn't commit suicide. She says that her family will be lost without her. He thinks that she has three paths: "to throw herself into a ditch, to fall into a lunatic asylum, or ... or, finally, to throw herself into debauchery, which intoxicates the mind and petrifies the heart."
Sonya prays to God, and on her chest of drawers is the Gospel, which was given to her by Lizaveta, the sister of the murdered old woman. It turns out they were friends. Raskolnikov asks to read from the Gospel about the resurrection of Lazarus. Sonya, having found the right place in the book, reads, but falls silent. Raskolnikov understands that it is difficult for her “to expose everything that is her own. He realized that these feelings really, as it were, constituted a real and already long-standing, perhaps, her secret. Sonya, overpowering herself, begins to read intermittently. "She was approaching the word about the greatest and unheard of miracle, and a feeling of great triumph seized her." She thought that Raskolnikov would now hear him and believe.
Raskolnikov admits that he abandoned his relatives, offers Sonya: “Let's go together ... I came to you. We are cursed together, let's go together!" He explains to her that he needs her, that she “also crossed ... was able to cross”: “You laid hands on yourself, you ruined your life ... yours (it's all the same!) You could live in spirit and mind, but end on the Haymarket... But you can't stand it, and if you're left alone, you'll go crazy like me. You are already like a lunatic; therefore, we should go together, on the same road! Let's go to!" Sonya doesn't know what to think. Raskolnikov says: “Later you will understand ... Freedom and power, and most importantly, power! Over all the trembling creature and over the whole anthill! He adds that tomorrow he will come to her and give the name of the killer, since he chose her. Leaves. Sonya is delirious all night. Svidrigailov overheard their entire conversation, hiding in the next room behind the door.
In the morning, Rodion Raskolnikov enters the bailiff's office and asks to be received by Porfiry Petrovich. “The most terrible thing for him was to meet this man again: he hated him without measure, endlessly, and was even afraid of somehow revealing himself with his hatred.” During a conversation with Porfiry Petrovich, Raskolnikov feels how anger gradually grows in him. He says that he came for interrogations, that he is in a hurry to the funeral of an official crushed by horses. He is clearly nervous, but Porfiry Petrovich, on the contrary, is calm, winking at him from time to time, smiling.
Porfiry Petrovich explains to Raskolnikov why they don’t start a conversation for so long: if two people who mutually respect each other converge, then for half an hour they cannot find a topic for conversation, as they “stiffen in front of each other, sit and mutually embarrassed”. He penetrates the psychology of Raskolnikov, he understands that he is a suspect. Porfiry Petrovich indirectly blames Raskolnikov. He says that the killer is temporarily at large, but he will not run away from him anywhere: “Did you see the butterfly in front of the candle? Well, so it will all be, everything will be around me, like around a candle, spinning; freedom will not be sweet, it will begin to think, get confused, confuse itself all around, as in nets, alarm itself to death!”
After another monologue by Porfiry Petrovich, Raskolnikov tells him that he is convinced that he is suspected of committing a crime, and declares: “If you have the right to legally prosecute me, then persecute me; arrest, then arrest. But I will not allow myself to laugh in my eyes and torture myself. Porfiry Petrovich tells him that he knows about how he went to rent an apartment late at night, how he rang the bell, was interested in blood. He notices that Razumikhin, who just now tried to find out something or other from him, “is too kind a person for this,” tells a “painful case” from practice, and then asks Raskolnikov if he wants to see a “surprise-sir”, which he is under lock and key. Raskolnikov is ready to meet anyone.
There is a noise behind the door. A pale man appears in the office, whose appearance was strange. “He looked straight ahead of him, but as if not seeing anyone. Determination flashed in his eyes, but at the same time a deathly pallor covered his face, as if he had been led to execution. His pale lips twitched slightly. He was still very young, dressed like a commoner, of medium height, thin, with hair cut in a circle, with thin, as if dry features. This is the arrested dyer Nikolai, who immediately confesses that he killed the old woman and her sister. Porfiry Petrovich finds out the circumstances of the crime.
Remembering Raskolnikov, he says goodbye to him, hinting that they do not see each other for the last time. Raskolnikov, already at the door, ironically asks: “Will you show me a surprise?” He understands that Nikolai lied, the lie will be revealed and then they will take him. Returning home, he estimates: "I was late for the funeral, but I have time for the wake." Then the door opened, and "a figure appeared - yesterday's man from under the ground." He was among the people standing at the gate of the house where the murder took place on the day when Raskolnikov came there. The janitors did not go to the investigator, so he had to do it. He asks for forgiveness from Raskolnikov "for the slander and malice", says that he left Porfiry Petrovich's office after him.
PART FIVE
Luzhin's vanity after the explanations with Dunechka and her mother is pretty wounded. He, looking at himself in the mirror, thinks that he will find himself a new bride. Luzhin was invited to the funeral together with his neighbor Lebezyatnikov, whom he "despised and hated even beyond measure, almost from the very day he settled, but at the same time he seemed to be somewhat afraid." Lebezyatnikov is an adherent of "progressive" ideas. Once in St. Petersburg, Petr Petrovich decides to take a closer look at this man, find out more about his views in order to have some idea of \u200b\u200bthe "young generations".
Lebezyatnikov defines his vocation in life as a "protest" against everyone and everything. Luzhin asks him if he will go to Katerina Petrovna's wake. He replies that he won't. Luzhin remarks that after Lebeziatnikov beat Marmeladov's widow a month ago, he must be ashamed. We are talking about Sonya. According to Lebezyatnikov, Sonya's actions are a protest against the structure of society, and therefore she deserves respect.
He tells Luzhin: “You simply despise her. Seeing a fact that you mistakenly consider worthy of contempt, you are already denying a human being a humane look at him. Luzhin asks to bring Sonya. Lebeziatnikov leads. Luzhin, who was counting the money that lay on the table, makes the girl sit opposite him. She cannot take her eyes off the money and is ashamed that she is looking at them. Luzhin invites her to arrange a lottery in her favor, gives her a ten-ruble bank note. Lebezyatnikov did not expect that Pyotr Petrovich was capable of such an act. But Luzhin conceived something vile, and therefore rubbed his hands in excitement. Lebezyatnikov recalled this later.
Katerina Ivanovna spent ten rubles on the wake. Perhaps she was led by the "pride of the poor" when they spend their last savings, "just to be "not worse than others" and so that those others would not "condemn" them somehow. Amalia Ivanovna, the landlady, helped her in everything that concerned the preparations. Marmeladov's widow is nervous due to the fact that there were few people at the funeral, and only the poor at the wake. He mentions Luzhin and Lebezyatnikov in the conversation.
Raskolnikov arrives at the moment when everyone is returning from the cemetery. Katerina Ivanovna is very happy about his appearance. She finds fault with Amalia Ivanovna, treats her "extremely casually."
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The action takes place in St. Petersburg, in the hot summer season. Rodion Raskolnikov is a law student, currently forced to leave his studies due to lack of funds.
Raskolnikov is crushed by poverty. He owes the owner for the apartment and is afraid to meet her. He does not like that he is worried about such trifles, while he wants to commit the murder of an old pawnbroker.
The thought of murder has been tormenting his mind for a month and a half. Raskolnikov goes to this old woman, Alena Ivanovna, to make a "test". He brings his father's watch as a pledge and promises to soon bring a silver cigarette box. After Raskolnikov leaves the old woman, he is overcome with unbearable disgust. He wants to see people, and he goes into the tavern.
In the tavern, Raskolnikov is approached by a man who introduces himself as Marmeladov's titular adviser. This is a downcast person who drinks terribly. Marmeladov tells Raskolnikov the story of his life.
He has a daughter from his first marriage named Sonya. But out of compassion, Marmeladov offered his hand and heart to the unfortunate widow, who remained after the death of her husband with three children in complete poverty. Her relatives, the nobles, refused to accept her because she violated their will and married for love.
Marmeladov says that Katerina Ivanovna went for him out of desperation, sobbing and wringing her hands. He thinks of himself in a completely derogatory way. Marmeladov did not drink for a long time, fulfilling his duty towards the family, but, as he says, he “could not please” with this either.
Once he lost his job due to staff reductions and then he began to drink. Then he found work, but drunkenness no longer leaves him. The family fell into complete poverty. Katerina Ivanovna is ill with consumption. But she is a noblewoman, proud, keeps cleanliness, washes him and children's things at night.
Marmeladov suffers immensely because his daughter Sonya was forced to go to the panel. Katerina Ivanovna reproached her, saying that she was a parasite. How can a poor girl make money? She sewed shirts for Mr. Klopstock, and he not only did not give fifteen kopecks, but drove her away with a cry that the collar was not sewn properly.
Once, when Marmeladov was lying "drunk", he heard how Katerina Ivanovna, with her reproaches, pushed Sonya onto a terrible path.
The daughter went out into the street, and after a while brought the money. Silently, wrapping herself in their family's green scarf, Sonya lay down. Katerina Ivanovna then hugged her legs and cried. Marmeladov says that the Lord will first call Sonya and forgive her all her sins because she "loved a lot."
Raskolnikov escorts Marmeladov home, sees Katerina Ivanovna, unfortunate children, leaves a trifle on their windowsill and leaves.
Rodion receives a letter from his mother, Pulcheria Alexandrovna. From the letter it is clear that Raskolnikov's mother and sister Dunya live very poorly (the mother receives a tiny pension), but they do everything to help Rodion with money. Dunya worked as a governess for the Svidrigailovs.
Svidrigailov burned with passion for her, and his wife Marfa Petrovna decided that Dunya was in a reprehensible relationship with him. In fact, Dunechka tried to reason with Svidrigailov, writing to him about the inadmissibility of immoral behavior. Marfa Petrovna expelled Dunya, disgracing her to the whole city. However, for some unknown reason, Svidrigailov suddenly confessed to everything and as proof
submitted a letter to Dunya to him.
Svidrigailova restored justice, told everyone about the worthy behavior of Dunechka. Marfa Petrovna contributed to the marriage of forty-five-year-old Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, a lawyer, a wealthy and business man, to Dunechka.
He wants to have an educated, beautiful, but poor wife. Dunya prays all night and accepts the offer. Pulcheria Raskolnikova reports that they will soon come to Rodion in St. Petersburg. Luzhin is in a hurry with the wedding and wants to open a law office in St. Petersburg. At the same time, Luzhin did nothing to help his bride and her old mother, he undertook to deliver their chest to St. Petersburg.
When Raskolnikov finished reading the letter, his face was wet with tears. He goes out into the street and goes to Vasilevsky Island.
Raskolnikov understands that his sister agreed to the marriage only because of his, Raskolnikov's, plight. Rodion believes that this is the same sacrifice that Sonya Marmeladova made.
Raskolnikov sees a girl in a torn dress, she is drunk. The hero realizes that she was deceived and abused. A dandy follows the girl, and Raskolnikov knows his intentions. He calls the dandy Svidrigailov, then turns to the policeman to help bring the unfortunate woman home, and gives him money.
The policeman immediately understands everything and wants to help. Suddenly Raskolnikov seemed to be stung by something, and he wonders why he got involved in helping. “Yes, let them swallow each other alive, what’s the matter to me,” he thinks and shouts to the policeman to leave everything.
The policeman decides that Raskolnikov is probably crazy. Rodion, thinking about Dunya, categorically does not want to accept her sacrifice. There will be no marriage, he decides. But here he asks himself the question: what can he do so that Dunya's marriage with Luzhin does not take place?
Raskolnikov's brain is engulfed by his gloomy idea. Raskolnikov suddenly remembers where he is going. His university friend Razumikhin lives on Vasilyevsky Island.
It is unpleasant for Raskolnikov that he went to Razumikhin and wanted to correct the matter with him alone. His friend was a kind and simple guy whom everyone loved very much. He supported himself, no one helped him. Razumikhin was no less poor than Raskolnikov, but he never lost his presence of mind.
On Vasilyevsky Island, Raskolnikov enters some bushes and falls asleep. He has a dream: he is a boy, his father is next to him, they are in their hometown. Raskolnikov sees a church with a green dome.
Suddenly, a crowd of drunks falls out of the tavern, and some disgusting Mikolka beats an old horse to death because she could not gallop to carry the drunkards, whom he put in a cart.
He abandons his "damned idea", no matter how true it is, like arithmetic. He decides not to kill. However, for some reason Raskolnikov goes home by a detour and on Sennaya Square he hears the conversation of the old woman's sister Lizaveta with the townspeople, who persuade her to come to them tomorrow at seven o'clock in the evening. He understands that the next day at seven in the evening the old pawnbroker will be at home alone.
Raskolnikov feels that for him now "everything has been finally decided." He comes home feeling condemned to death.
Raskolnikov lies in a semi-delirious state on his sofa until the next day. Dostoevsky tells the story of how Rodion got the idea of murder.
In the winter, student Pokorev gave him the old woman's address in case he had to pawn something. A month and a half ago he remembered the address and went to the old woman.
As he left, an idea popped into his head. He went into a tavern and heard a conversation between a student and an officer who exactly matched his thoughts.
The student convinced the officer that the old woman - a spider, drinks the blood of the unfortunate, so you need to kill her, and help people with money.
One tiny crime cannot but be atoned for by a thousand good deeds. It's simple arithmetic, he argued. The officer objected that "it's nature here." But the student said that nature is corrected and directed, and without this there will be no great man. The officer asked the question: will the student kill or not?
The student replied that of course not, he said everything for fairness. The officer concluded in the end that since he himself does not decide, then there is no justice here.
They also talked about the old woman's half-sister Lizaveta. Although she is ugly, she is very kind and everyone likes her. The student, laughing, said that she "was pregnant every minute."
From sleep, Raskolnikov is awakened by a cry from the street: someone is shouting that the seventh hour is long ago. Rodion had previously developed a plan for the murder: he had to put the ax into the loop, which he would sew inside the coat to the sleeve. He was going to take the ax from the kitchen.
However, the maid Nastasya turns out to be there, and Raskolnikov cannot take the ax. He is humiliated and crushed by his own ineptitude. But then something flashed into his eyes from the janitor's closet.
He sees an axe, takes it and goes to the old woman. On the way, Rodion examines everything that comes across on the way. He thinks that this is probably how the one who is being taken to the death penalty feels.
Instead of the promised cigarette box, Raskolnikov gives the old woman a wooden block wrapped in newspaper and tied. While Alena Ivanovna is trying to untie the knots and turns to face the window, Raskolnikov feels that there is not a minute to lose, and hits her on the head with the butt of an ax.
He goes to another room, takes out money and jewelry, but hears that someone is walking in the room where the dead woman lies. Raskolnikov goes there and sees Lizaveta. She does not scream, only, like a child, she closes herself from him with her left hand. The blow falls on the crown of the head.
Rodion washes his hands and axe, realizes that the door is unlocked, and locks it. Suddenly he hears footsteps on the stairs and feels that they are coming this way. One person comes, then another.
The first is the German Koch, he swears, calls the old woman a witch, says that she appointed a time for him, and now she is gone. The second is student Pestryakov, he realizes that the door is locked from the inside with a latch. He goes for the janitor, and leaves Koch on guard.
He gets angry, curses, and suddenly, for some unknown reason, runs down. Understanding little, Raskolnikov descends. He hears how people are already rising, but at that moment workers fly out of the apartment on the floor below (they were doing repairs there), and Raskolnikov hides in this apartment. He leaves the house unnoticed by anyone.
Raskolnikov sleeps in a fever in his room until three o'clock in the afternoon and, waking up, remembers that he did not hide the things that he took from Alena Ivanovna. He hides them in a hole behind the wallpaper.
The maid Nastasya gives him a summons from the police office. Raskolnikov is horrified, but goes to the station. It turns out that the owner of the apartment, through the police, requires him to pay for housing.
Raskolnikov says that he is a student, dejected by poverty, talks about his relationship with the hostess's daughter, a sick girl who could not walk. The girl died, and the Mistress promised not to use the bill signed by Raskolnikov.
Now she has broken her promise. They sympathize with Rodion, explain what he should write. When Raskolnikov is about to leave, he hears the dialogue of the police about the murder of the pawnbroker and faints. This causes suspicious looks, but Raskolnikov's fainting is explained by his painful condition.
Raskolnikov wanders around the city, trying to get rid of the old woman's belongings. He puts them in a recess under a large stone, which he finds in one of the gates. He goes to Razumikhin and asks for work.
Razumikhin offers him to translate from German, but Raskolnikov behaves strangely, refuses everything and leaves. Razumikhin sees that his friend is extremely ill. On the way he was whipped by a coachman. There is laughter all around. Only one merchant's wife with her daughter, who walked under a green umbrella, asks him to accept the money "for Christ's sake."
Raskolnikov throws away this money after a while and feels that he has cut himself off from the whole world. He comes home and falls into oblivion.
Rodion comes to his senses on the fourth day. All this time Razumikhin was with him, who, realizing that it was bad with Raskolnikov, found out his address.
Razumikhin made friends with the hostess, explained that she had put the bill into circulation only because he was caught Razumikhin made friends with the hostess, explained that she had put the bill into circulation only because a businessman had come across who asked if it was possible "to carry out the bill."
The hostess replied that it was possible, because the mother and sister, living from hand to mouth, would do anything, even death, for the sake of their son and brother. The friend also says that his mother sent him a money order.
Instead of Raskolnikov's rags, Razumikhin brings him other, decent clothes so that Rodion can give lessons.
Raskolnikov is paid a visit by the medical student Zosimov, who was asked to come by Razum in. From the conversation of the guests about the murder of the old pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta, Rodion learns that many are suspected: Koch and the student Pestryakov, who went to call the janitor, as well as the dyer Mikolka, who worked in the apartment located on the floor below.
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin comes into Raskolnikov's room. He is jarred by the poverty of the situation. Puddles does not state his views. These are new ideas that charity is harmful, and society needs to be based on private interest.
If earlier, says Luzhin, they taught that it was necessary to “love your neighbor,” then the only thing that came out of this was that a person tore the caftan in half, and the neighbor turned out to be only a torn caftan.
Now the new economic idea says that you must first love yourself. Then there is no need to tear the caftan, and the more whole caftans remain in society, the better it will be for the “neighbor”: he will receive something not from “single generosity, but from general prosperity.”
All new ideas, says Luzhin, are best seen in St. Petersburg. Razumikhin, who does not like all this very much, enters into an argument with Luzhin. The only thing Luzhin cannot understand is why crimes in the upper classes of society have been on the rise lately.
For example, the old pawnbroker was obviously not killed by a commoner, because peasants do not pawn expensive things. Raskolnikov, who has remained silent until now, says with hatred that Luzhin should not be surprised: if his theory is brought to its logical end, it will turn out that people can be cut.
Luzhin is outraged. He says that the economic idea is not an invitation to murder. But Raskolnikov drives Luzhin out.
In the tavern "Crystal Palace" Rodion accidentally meets with Zametov, the clerk of the police station. Raskolnikov behaves defiantly, as if hinting that he killed the old woman.
Rodion feels that he cannot live like this, that all this must be ended. But how? He is thinking about suicide. But next to him, some woman throws herself into the water, they save her and explain that she "drunk herself to hell." The desire to drown himself leaves Raskolnikov.
He goes to the old woman's apartment. They are doing renovations. Raskolnikov behaves strangely: rings the bell, asks why they washed the blood from the floor. Among several people gathered near the house, someone thinks that he is crazy, and one tradesman says that he should be taken to the office.
Raskolnikov walks all alone, not knowing what to do. Then he hears a noise nearby.
The hero hurries to the noise and sees that Marmeladov has landed under the horse. Raskolnikov fusses, shows where to carry the crushed man. Katerina Ivanovna tries to help, Marmeladov tries to ask her forgiveness. Neighbors gather around, staring with curiosity at human grief.
Katerina Ivanovna sends her daughter Polechka for Sonya - a pretty blonde with blue eyes, thin, almost like a teenager. She comes in her flashy street clothes and stands humbly in the crowd, waiting for her to come up to say goodbye to her dying father.
Marmeladov asks the priest. He tells Katerina Ivanovna that the Lord is merciful. She replies that she is merciful, but not for them. Katerina Ivanovna shows him a scarf with bloody stains - evidence of her consumption - and hungry children.
Marmeladov suddenly sees Sonya, asks her to forgive him. He dies in her arms. Raskolnikov gives Katerina Ivanovna all his money for Marmeladov's funeral. When Rodion descends the stairs, he thinks that all is not lost and that his life has not died with the old woman. For now he lived; Raskolnikov says to himself.
Polechka catches up with Rodion and asks for his address. He talks to her, asks if she loves sister Sonya, asks her to love her very much, and also to pray for him. Polechka kisses him and promises to love him very much.
Raskolnikov goes to Razumikhin, who is celebrating a housewarming party. He invited him earlier and gave the address. Raskolnikov refused, but now he is coming. Razumikhin escorts him home. Approaching the house, he sees the light in his windows: his mother and sister have arrived. Having risen to himself and seeing them, he faints.
Raskolnikov ardently proves that Puddles are not a couple for Dunya. His mother does not support him, but Razumikhin agrees with him. He really likes Dunya, and Luzhin is disgusted. Razumikhin sees off Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya. He promises to help them in everything.
In the morning, Razumikhin comes to the apartment of Raskolnikov's mother and sister, asks Dunya for forgiveness for the words about her fiancé, apologizes for his temper. Luzhin sends a note to the ladies saying that he wants to visit them, but demands that
Raskolnikov was not at the meeting.
Raskolnikov tells about the death of the former official Marmeladov, learns from his mother about the death of Svidrigailov's wife, Marfa Petrovna. Incomprehensible rumors circulate that Svidrigailov somehow contributed to the death of his wife. Raskolnikov is told about Luzhin's note. He is ready to do what his family wants. Dunya wants her brother to be present at the groom's visit.
Sonya comes to Raskolnikov and invites him to Marmeladov's funeral. She feels extremely awkward in the company of decent ladies. Rodion introduces her to her mother and sister, and by her behavior shows that she should be equal with everyone. Leaving, Dunya bows to Sonya.
In front of the house, Raskolnikov and Sonya talk for some time together. A respectable blond gentleman passes by. Raskolnikov asks Razumikhin to introduce him to the investigator Porfiry Petrovich, his relative, he explains this by the fact that he is concerned about the fate of the things that the old woman Sonya was pursuing, some unfamiliar gentleman is pursuing and talking to her.
Raskolnikov, together with Razumikhin, goes to Porfiry Petrovich. Rodion makes fun of his friend's sympathy for Dunya, generally trying to show that he is very cheerful so that the investigator sees this.
Porfiry Petrovich also portrays gaiety, but sometimes he behaves as if he is catching Raskolnikov, hinting at something to him. Raskolnikov is nervous. It is extremely unpleasant for him that Zametov is present at Porfiry's.
In a conversation, the investigator says that he has been interested in Raskolnikov for a long time, since he had the pleasure of reading his article two months ago. Rodion is surprised: he did not know that the article was published. In it, says Porfiry, he was particularly interested in one thought, expressed at the end, by a hint.
This is the idea that people are divided into ordinary and extraordinary, that is, the great, who are allowed to do all sorts of atrocities, that is, crimes.
Raskolnikov thus outlined his main idea in the article. He believes that the ordinary live in obedience and therefore cannot change the world (Raskolnikov calls them the masters of the present), while the extraordinary break the law and contribute to changing the world for the better (he calls them the masters of the future).
Great men, like Napoleon, can allow their conscience to commit a crime, shed blood in the name of the common good, the advent of the New Jerusalem.
Porfiry Petrovich doubts the coming of the New Jerusalem. Razumikhin is horrified that Raskolnikov wrote such an article. The interrogator caustically asks if confusion can occur when someone forgets what category he belongs to.
Raskolnikov replies that only ordinary people can confuse, but such people will not go far, they will soon cut themselves. Porfiry suggests that it was not someone who imagined himself Napoleon who killed Alena Ivanovna: they say, there is a long trip ahead - money is needed.
In addition, Porfiry is trying to confuse Raskolnikov: he asks when he last visited the old woman, if he saw the dyers then. Rodion, afraid of making a mistake, hesitates to answer. Razumikhin says that his friend was in the house three days before the murder, and the dyers were working on the day of the crime. Porfiry apologizes for his forgetfulness. Raskolnikov and Razumikhin leave.
When Rodion approaches his house, an unknown tradesman calls him a murderer and leaves. Raskolnikov is in a fever, he dreams that he goes out into the street, follows the tradesman, he brings him to Alena Ivanovna's apartment. There is silence. Raskolnikov sees a hood hanging on the wall. An old woman sits under him, he looks into her face - she bursts into soundless laughter.
He hits the old woman on the head with an ax - she continues to laugh. He wants to run, but there are a lot of judging people around. Raskolnikov wakes up in horror, sees that the door is opening. Perhaps this is a continuation of the dream. A man enters the door, who introduces himself as Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov.
Raskolnikov Svidrigailov is extremely unpleasant because of his attitude towards Dunya. Svidrigailov, however, says that he and Raskolnikov are "of the same field", there is something in common between them. He asks if Raskolnikov believes in ghosts.
For example, Marfa Petrovna appears to him. Svidrigailov says that the investigation into the death of Marfa Petrovna found only a blow that occurred after a hearty dinner with a bottle of wine. But Svidrigailov himself nevertheless hints that he played a certain role in the death of his wife.
He says: not everyone sees ghosts, but this does not mean at all that they do not exist. Ghosts are seen only by those in whom the normal earthly order has been violated: fragments of other worlds are revealed to them, and as soon as a person dies completely, he will pass into this world.
Eternity appears to Svidrigailov in the form of a bathhouse with spiders and cockroaches. He explains his visit by the fact that he wants to ask Raskolnikov to organize a meeting with his sister. Marfa Petrovna left her three thousand rubles, and he himself wants to give her ten thousand for the trouble she has caused. However, Raskolnikov refuses the benefits of Svidrigailov.
Razumikhin and Raskolnikov come to Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya in the evening. Luzhin is outraged that his request to meet without Raskolnikov was not fulfilled. He says that he wanted to discuss the upcoming wedding, but under Raskolnikov he is not going to do this. Pyotr Petrovich reproaches Dunya that she does not understand her happiness, recalls the plight of the girl's family, says that she does not appreciate him much.
Dunya is indignant: she puts him on the same level with her brother, a man so dear to her in life, and he thinks that she appreciates him little? It all ends with Dunya asking Luzhin to get out.
Raskolnikov tells Duna about Svidrigailov's visit. She is sure that he is up to something terrible, and is afraid of meeting him. Everyone begins to argue how to use the money left to Dunya by Marfa Petrovna.
Happy Razumikhin makes plans for their future life. He says that they will all work, open their own publishing house. Only Raskolnikov cannot take part in the general joy, it is too hard for him.
He unexpectedly gets up in the middle of a conversation and leaves, saying that it would be better for them not to see each other for a while. Razumikhin tries to calm his mother and sister, explaining that he has not fully recovered yet.
Raskolnikov comes to Sonya. She is extremely embarrassed: he, a wonderful person who helped her family, is next to her, in her nasty room. Raskolnikov says that he knows about the beating of her by Katerina Ivanovna.
Sonya passionately defends her, says that she is pure, she is looking for justice. Sonya reproaches herself for the fact that she once did not give Katerina Ivanovna the collars that she liked so much.
Raskolnikov says that now it is clear why she lives like this. He asks her a question: why did she go to the panel instead of, say, immediately into the pool with her head?
Sonya is not surprised by the question, and Raskolnikov understands that this dilemma confronted her herself. But Sonya chose a path that brings her a lot of suffering, but saves Katerina Ivanovna and her unfortunate children.
Raskolnikov at some point kisses Sonya's leg, saying that he is all human suffering
bowed. But Rodion wants to prove to her that her sacrifice is in vain: Katerina Ivanovna will die, and Polechka will follow Sonya's path.
The girl exclaims that God will not allow such horror. “He allows others,” remarks Raskolnikov, and adds that God, perhaps, does not exist at all. Sonya, very religious, looks sternly at the hero.
Rodion learns that Sonya was friends with the late Lizaveta. On the table she has the Gospel brought by the sister of the pawnbroker. Raskolnikov is looking for a story about the resurrection of Lazarus. Sonya notices that he is looking in the wrong place. Raskolnikov asks to read it to him. She reads and thinks that he will now believe.
Rodion calls Sonya on his path, because she, like him, “transgressed”, “could transgress.” But she “killed herself in vain,” and this is her sin, he believes. We need power over everyone, says Raskolnikov. He promises Sonya to come the next day and announce who killed Lizaveta. Their conversation is overheard by Svidrigailov, who rents the next room.
The next day, Raskolnikov goes to Porfiry Petrovich's office. The interrogator plays with him, building traps, driving him into a frenzy. Raskolnikov shouts that he will not allow him to play with him, calls Porfiry open. He demands to be told directly whether he is considered guilty. Porfiry does not speak. But he promises Raskolnikov some kind of "surprise", which is sitting in the next room.
At this moment, the dyer Mikolka is brought in, and he, unexpectedly for everyone, confesses to the murder. Raskolnikov triumphs. Porfiry is clearly unhappy with this.
Then, near Raskolnikov's house, the mysterious man who called him the murderer approaches him. He apologizes for his words. This man stood in the crowd when Raskolnikov came to the house of the murdered old woman. He informed the police. It was him that Porfiry prepared as a "surprise". Raskolnikov feels calmer.
Luzhin wants to return Dunya at all costs. To this end, he decides to compromise Raskolnikov. Rodion, according to Luzhin, is discredited by the fact that he communicates with a girl of notorious behavior, that is, with Sonya. Luzhin had already told Pulcheria Alexandrovna that Raskolnikov gave this girl the money that had cost Pulcheria Alexandrovna such labors.
He decides to present Sonya in a disgusting way. Luzhin asks Lebezyatnikov, who lives in the same house as the Marmeladovs, to invite Sonya. Lebezyatnikov is a socialist, a representative of the younger generation, following new, "progressive" ideas.
Luzhin is sitting at a table on which lies an impressive wad of money. Sonya arrives. Ornately speaking, Luzhin gives Sonya ten rubles to help Katerina Ivanovna, in accordance with his material capabilities, as he explains.
At this time, a commemoration for Marmeladov is being held in the room of Katerina Ivanovna. Luzhin apologizes that he cannot come, and quietly puts a folded hundred-ruble note into Sonya's pocket. Lebezyatnikov, who believes that helping people is harmful, nevertheless praises Pyotr Petrovich for his nobility.
Katerina Ivanovna, who, because of her nobility, wants everything to be worthy, arranges a commemoration with the money that Raskolnikov gave.
At the commemoration, a scandal begins: the landlady Amalia Lippevehzel and Katerina Ivanovna quarrel. At this moment Luzhin arrives.
Pyotr Petrovich informs all those gathered that Sonya stole a hundred rubles from him. As a witness, he provides his neighbor Lebezyatnikov. Katerina Ivanovna shouts that he is a fool, that Sonya is one of those who will give everything, but she herself will go barefoot.
Marmeladova asks Raskolnikov for protection, but he is silent. Sonya turns her pocket inside out, and a hundred-ruble note falls out of it. Luzhin is ready to call the police. But Lebezyatnikov saves the situation: he very emotionally says that Luzhin himself slipped the girl money.
Raskolnikov explains to everyone that he did it on purpose, wanting to compromise him. Sonya runs away in tears. Pyotr Petrovich leaves. Amalia Lippevehzel kicks Katerina Ivanovna out of the apartment with her children.
Raskolnikov goes to Sonya to proudly announce who killed Alena Ivanovna and Lizaveta. Instead, however, he feels he must confess to the murder.
First, he asks Sonya a provocative question: if she were to decide whether to live with Katerina Ivanovna with children - or live and do abominations to Luzhin, what would she choose? Sonya replies that she cannot know God's providence, no one has put her here as a judge, and that he is asking something that cannot be asked.
After a while, Raskolnikov feels that the decisive moment has come when he must confess what he has done. Rodion tells Sonya that he knows the killer well, says that he is a friend with him, asks to look at him carefully. Sonya understands. But she cannot understand how he, "such", could kill.
Raskolnikov begins to analyze what happened to him. Sonya asks: maybe he killed to help his hungry mother? Raskolnikov replies that if that were the case, he would be happy now. Rodion says that he wanted to become Napoleon.
The devil killed the old woman, and he, Raskolnikov, killed himself. Sonya with suffering tells Rodion that he did a terrible thing to himself: he retreated from God, and God betrayed him to the devil. Raskolnikov asks if Sonya will leave him.
She replies that she will follow him to hard labor. Raskolnikov declares that he may not be going to hard labor yet. But Sonya says that he will "be tormented" if he does not go.
Lebezyatnikov arrives and reports that Katerina Ivanovna has gone mad. She dressed the children in stupid hats, made them sing and beg. She ran to some influential person to complain, and when he did not react, she threw an inkwell at him.
Raskolnikov and Sonya find Katerina Ivanovna on the street. She asks Rodion for advice on what to sing to the children, and asks them to sing in French "Malbrook is going on a campaign." If the children do not sing in French, how will everyone understand that they are from a noble family?
Katerina Ivanovna falls and hurts herself, soon she begins to bleed in her throat; she is attributed to Sonya. The woman refuses the priest, saying that Sonya does not have an extra penny. Finally she dies. Svidrigailov announces that he wants to place Katerina Ivanovna's children in good pensions and put money into their account. He tells Raskolnikov that it is still possible to deal with him, Svidrigailov.
Raskolnikov wants to deal with Svidrigailov, to find out his intentions about Dunya. He finds him in some tavern. Talking with him, he becomes convinced that Svidrigailov is an insignificant villain and voluptuary.
Porfiry Petrovich comes to Raskolnikov. He knows that Raskolnikov is a murderer. The investigator calculated him psychologically and understands the ideological motives that led him to this.
He also explains the story with Mikolka by psychology: Mikolka was one of the schismatics, he was once brought up in a passionate faith, and then in St. Petersburg he forgot about it. When he was arrested, Mikelka remembered his faith, decided that he must accept suffering, and therefore joined in the murder. In addition, Mikolka knew that he would be “sued” anyway.
Porfiry invites Raskolnikov to come to the office himself with a confession and promises that he will help Raskolnikov to reduce his term.
Dunya goes to meet Svidrigailov. She is afraid of him and takes a gun with her. Svidrigailov offers her money in exchange for favors. In addition, Svidrigailov had already told Dunya everything he knew about Raskolnikov.
He offers to make him a passport and send him abroad. Dunya does not agree to anything and asks to let her go. Svidrigailov does not let her leave. She shoots at him, but misses. He asks to shoot again, Dunya aims, but then throws the gun aside and says that he cannot. Svidrigailov opens the door and urges Dunya to leave him. She runs away.
Svidrigailov walks around the taverns, then goes to Sonya. He reports that he has placed the children of Katerina Ivanovna in a good boarding school, gives her three thousand. Then he wanders around the city, enters some dirty tavern. At night, he sees in a dream a teenage girl whom he once insulted and who died because of him. He leaves the hotel and commits suicide.
Raskolnikov says goodbye to his mother and sister; informs Dunya that he wants to confess to the murder, promises to start a new life. Rodion regrets that he could not cross the cherished threshold that he spoke about in his theory - his conscience.
Before going to the police station, Raskolnikov goes to Sonya. She blesses him.
Rodion Raskolnikov was sentenced to eight years hard labor. He has been in prison for a year and a half. Pulcheria Alexandrovna dies, and Sonya goes after Raskolnikov. Dunya marries Razumikhin. They
they want to save money and go to Siberia so that they can all start a different life together.
Raskolnikov keeps himself apart from the rest of the prisoners. He cannot forgive himself for backtracking on his idea and confessing to the murder. Prisoners do not like him very much for pride. But everyone loves Sonya.
One Easter, Raskolnikov falls ill. During his illness, he reads the Gospel. He has a dream that terrible disease-causing trichines appeared, which began to move into people. The infected became possessed, but at the same time considered themselves the smartest in the world. They began to unite in armies to fight, but in the end they simply devoured each other.
After an illness, Raskolnikov sits on the banks of the river. He knows Sonya is ill and is concerned. Suddenly Marmeladova comes.
Rodion cries and hugs her knees. Sonya understands now that he loves her. “They were resurrected by love, the heart of one contained endless sources of life for the heart of the other. They decided to wait and endure ... But he was resurrected, and he knew it, felt it more fully with all his renewed being, and she - she, after all, lived only his life!
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