Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment was written in 1866. The writer came up with the idea for the work back in 1859, when he was serving his sentence at 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 magazine “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 literary movement realism, written in the genre of a philosophical and psychological polyphonic novel, since the ideas of the characters in the work are equal to each other, and the author stands next to the characters, and not above them.
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Main characters
Rodion Raskolnikov- a poor student, a young, proud, selfless youth. He “was remarkably good-looking, with beautiful dark eyes, dark blond, above average height, thin and slender.”
Sonya Marmeladova- the native daughter of Marmeladov, a drunkard, a former titular councilor. “A small girl, about eighteen years old, thin, but quite pretty blonde, with wonderful blue eyes.”
Petr Petrovich Luzhin- Dunya’s fiancé, a calculating, “prim, dignified, with a cautious and grumpy face” gentleman of forty-five years old.
Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov– a gambler with a contradictory character who has crossed several lives. “A man of about fifty, above average height, portly.”
Porfiry Petrovich- an investigative police officer who was involved in the murder of an old pawnbroker. “A man of about thirty-five, shorter than average height, plump and even with a paunch, 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 simple-minded, “his appearance was expressive - tall, thin, always poorly shaven, black-haired. Sometimes he got rowdy and was known as a strong man."
Dunya (Avdotya Romanovna) Raskolnikova- Raskolnikov’s sister, “a firm, prudent, patient and generous, although with an ardent heart” girl. “Her hair was dark brown, a little lighter than her brother’s; the eyes are almost black, sparkling, proud and at the same time, sometimes, for minutes, unusually kind.”
Other characters
Alena Ivanovna- an old money-lender 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 over fifty, of average height and heavy build, with gray hair and a large bald spot.”
Ekaterina Ivanovna Marmeladova- a woman of noble birth (from a bankrupt noble family), Sonya’s stepmother, Marmeladov’s wife. “A terribly thin woman, thin, rather tall and slender, with beautiful dark brown hair.”
Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikova- Rodion’s mother, a woman of forty-three years old.
Zosimov- doctor, friend of Raskolnikov, 27 years old.
Zametov- Clerk at the police station.
Nastasya- cook of the landlady from whom Raskolnikov rented a room.
Lebezyatnikov- Luzhin's roommate.
Mikola– dyer who confessed to the murder of an old woman
Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova- wife of Svidrigailov.
Polechka, Lenya, Kolya- children of Katerina Ivanovna.
Part one
Chapter 1
The main character of the novel, Rodion Raskolnikov, is in a situation bordering on poverty; he has eaten 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 pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna, pondering on the way a “mysterious” matter, thoughts about which have been bothering him for a long time - the hero was going to kill.
Arriving at Alena Ivanovna, Raskolnikov pawns a silver watch, while carefully examining the furnishings of her apartment. Leaving, Rodion promises to return soon to pawn the silver cigarette box.
Chapter 2
Entering the tavern, Raskolnikov meets the titular adviser Marmeladov. Having learned that Rodion is a student, the intoxicated interlocutor begins to talk about poverty, saying that “poverty is not a vice, it is the truth, poverty is a vice, sir,” and tells Rodion about his family. His wife, Katerina Ivanovna, having three children in her arms, married him out of despair, although she was smart and educated. But Marmeladov drinks away all the money, taking the last thing out of the house. In order to somehow provide for his family, his daughter, Sonya Marmeladova, had to go to the panel.
Raskolnikov decided to take the drunken Marmeladov home, since he was no longer able to stand on his feet. The student was struck by the squalid conditions of their housing. Katerina Ivanovna begins to scold her husband for drinking away the last of his money again, and Raskolnikov, not wanting to get involved in a quarrel, leaves, for reasons unknown to himself, leaving them some change on the windowsill.
Chapter 3
Raskolnikov lived in a small room with a very low ceiling: “it was a tiny cell, about six steps long.” The room had three old chairs, a table, a large sofa in rags 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. Having learned about this, Marfa Petrovna, his wife, began to insult and humiliate Dunya. In addition, forty-five-year-old court councilor Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin with a small capital wooed Duna. The mother writes that she and her sister will soon come to St. Petersburg, since Luzhin wants to arrange the wedding as quickly as possible.
Chapter 4
Raskolnikov was greatly alarmed by his mother's letter. The young man understands that his 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 prohibit Dunya from marrying 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
While walking around the Islands, Raskolnikov decided to snack on a piece of pie and vodka. The young man had not drunk for a long time, so he almost immediately became drunk and, before reaching home, fell asleep in the bushes. He dreamed horrible dream: an episode from childhood in which men slaughtered an old horse. Little Rodion cannot do anything, he runs up to the dead horse, kisses its muzzle and, angry, rushes at the man with his fists.
Having woken 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 traders, Raskolnikov learns that the pawnbroker will be alone at home tomorrow at seven in the evening. The young man understands that now “everything has been decided finally.”
Chapter 6
Raskolnikov accidentally overhears a conversation between a student and an officer that the old money-lender is unworthy of living, and if she were killed, then her money could be used to help 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 murder. The young man sewed with inside under the coat under the left armpit there is a loop for the ax so that when the coat is put on the ax is not visible. Then he took out a “pledge” hidden in the gap between the sofa and the floor - a tablet the size of a cigarette case, wrapped in paper and tied with a ribbon, which he was going to give to the old woman to distract attention. Having finished the preparations, Rodion stole an ax from the janitor's room and went to the old woman.
Chapter 7
Arriving at the pawnbroker, Rodion was worried that the old woman would notice his excitement and not let him in, but she took the “pawn”, believing that it was a cigarette holder, and tried to untie the ribbon. The young man, realizing that he must not hesitate, takes out an ax and brings the butt of it down on her head, the old woman sagged, 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 pawnbroker's wealth in a large pack (chest) and began to stuff the pockets of his coat and trousers with them, Lizaveta unexpectedly returned. In confusion, the hero also kills the old woman’s sister. He is overcome by horror, but gradually the hero pulls himself together, washes the blood from his hands, ax and boots. Raskolnikov was about to leave, but then he heard footsteps on the stairs: clients 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 o'clock in the afternoon. Waking up, the hero remembers what he did. In horror, he looks through all the clothes, checking to see if there are any traces of blood left on them. He immediately finds the jewelry he had taken from the pawnbroker, which he had completely forgotten about, and hides it in the corner of the room, in a hole under the wallpaper.
Nastasya comes to Rodion. She brought him a summons from the police officer: the hero needed 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 an obligation to pay the debt to the landlady.
Just about to leave the station, Rodion accidentally overhears the police talking about the murder of Alena Ivanovna and faints. Everyone decides that Raskolnikov is ill and is sent home.
Chapter 2
Fearing a search, Rodion hides the old woman’s valuables (a wallet 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. The young man receives a money transfer from his mother, who sent money to pay for housing. Dmitry tells his friend that while he was sick, policeman Zametov came to see Rodion several times and asked about his things.
Chapter 4
Another comrade, medical student Zosimov, comes to see Raskolnikov. He begins 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 Duna only so that the girl will be grateful for the rest of her life for ridding her family of poverty. Luzhin tries to deny this. An angry Raskolnikov kicks him out.
Raskolnikov's friends leave after him. Razumikhin worries about his friend, believing that “he has something on his mind! Something motionless, oppressive."
Chapter 6
Accidentally entering the Crystal Palace tavern, Raskolnikov meets Zametov there. Discussing with him the case of the murder of an 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 were 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, half-delirious, he goes to the house of the murdered old money-lender. There is renovation going on and the student talks to the workers about the crime that 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 is taken home, he is in serious condition.
Before his death, Marmeladov asks Sonya for forgiveness and dies in his daughter’s arms. Raskolnikov gives all his money for Marmeladov's funeral.
Rodion feels that he is recovering and goes to visit Razumikhin. Dmitry accompanies him home. Approaching Raskolnikov’s house, the students see light in its windows. When the friends went up to the room, it turned out that Rodion’s mother and sister had arrived. Seeing his loved ones, Raskolnikov fainted.
Part three
Chapter 1
Having come to his senses, Rodion asks his family 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 feels better. A student tells his mother and sister about how yesterday he gave all his money for a funeral to a poor family. Raskolnikov notices that his relatives are afraid of him.
The conversation turns to Luzhin. Rodion is unpleasant that Pyotr Petrovich does not show due attention to the bride. The young man is told about Pyotr Petrovich’s letter; he is ready to do what his relatives think is 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 equal terms with Rodion’s mother and sister, the young man introduces her to his loved ones. When 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 (later in the plot it becomes clear that it was Svidrigailov).
Chapter 5
Raskolnikov and Razumikhin go to Porfiry, since Rodion asked a friend to introduce him to the investigator. Raskolnikov turns to Porfiry with the question of how he can claim his right to the things that he pawned to the old woman. The investigator says that he needs to file a report with the police, and that his things are not missing, since 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, capable of saying a “new word”)”: “ordinary people must live in obedience and have no right to overstep law." “And extraordinary people have the right to commit all sorts of crimes and break the law in every possible way, precisely because they are extraordinary.” Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he considers himself such an “extraordinary” person and whether he is capable of killing or robbing, Raskolnikov replies that “it very well may be.”
Clarifying the details of the case, the investigator asks Raskolnikov if he saw, for example, during his last visit to the pawnbroker, the dyers. Hesitating to answer, the young man says that he didn’t see it. Razumikhin immediately answers for his friend that he 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, left.
At home, Raskolnikov began to suffer from fever again. The young man dreamed of this stranger, who beckoned 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 around him judging him. Rodion wakes up.
Svidrigailov comes to Raskolnikov.
Part four
Chapter 1
Raskolnikov is not happy about Svidrigailov’s arrival, since because of him Dunya’s reputation has seriously deteriorated. Arkady Ivanovich expresses the opinion that he and Rodion are very similar: “birds of a feather.” Svidrigailov is trying to persuade Raskolnikov to arrange a meeting for him with Dunya, since his wife left the girl three thousand, and he himself would like to give Dunya ten thousand for all the troubles he caused 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 in front of Raskolnikov. Luzhin reminds Dunya of the dire situation 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, had the appearance of 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 mad, but Rodion explains his action: “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 the chapter about the resurrection of Lazarus to him: “the cinder has long gone out in the crooked candlestick, dimly illuminating in this beggarly room a murderer and a harlot who strangely came 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 bear 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 by saying that there is a surprise in the next room, but does not tell the young man what it is.
Chapter 6
Unexpectedly for Raskolnikov and Porfiry, they bring in the dyer Mikola, who confesses in front of everyone 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, he was the “surprise” prepared by Porfiry and now repented of his mistake. Rodion feels calmer.
Part five
Chapter 1
Luzhin believes that Raskolnikov is solely to blame for his quarrel with Dunya. Pyotr Petrovich thinks that it was in vain that he did not give the Raskolnikovs money before the wedding: this would have solved many problems. Wanting to take revenge on Rodion, Luzhin asks his roommate Lebezyatnikov, who knows Sonya well, 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 exactly.
Chapter 2
Katerina Ivanovna organized a nice wake for her husband, but many of those invited did not come. Raskolnikov was also present here. 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 girl’s guilt, Katerina Ivanovna begins to empty her daughter’s pockets in front of everyone and a hundred-ruble bill falls out. Lebezyatnikov understands that Luzhin has gotten 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 and promises to call the police. Amalia Ivanovna kicks Katerina Ivanovna and her children out of the apartment.
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 “no one in the whole world is now more unhappy” than him. 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 needed to find out something else: Will I be able to cross or not! Am I a trembling creature or do I have the 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 crazy: the woman forced the children to beg, walks along the street, hits a frying pan and forces the children to sing and dance. They help carry Katerina Ivanovna into Sonya’s room, where the woman dies.
Svidrigailov approached Rodion, who was with Sonya. Arkady Ivanovich says that he will pay for Katerina Ivanovna’s funeral, place the children in orphanages and take care of Sonya’s fate, asking him to tell Duna that he will spend the ten thousand that he wanted to give her. When Rodion asks why Arkady Ivanovich became so generous, Svidrigailov replies that he heard all his conversations with Sonya through the wall.
Part six
Chapters 1-2
Funeral of Katerina Ivanovna. Razumikhin tells Rodion that Pulcheria Alexandrovna fell ill.
Porfiry Petrovich comes to Raskolnikov. The investigator states that he suspects Rodion of murder. He advises the young man to report to the police station and confess, giving him two days to think about it. However, there is no evidence against Raskolnikov, and he has not yet admitted to the murder.
Chapters 3-4
Raskolnikov understands that he needs to talk with Svidrigailov: “this man harbored some kind of power over him.” Rodion meets Arkady Ivanovich at the 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 fiancée.
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 Duna about the conversation he overheard between Sonya and Rodion. The man promises to save Raskolnikov in exchange for Dunya’s favor and love. The girl wants to leave, but the door is locked. Dunya takes out a hidden revolver, shoots at the man several times, but misses, and asks to let her go. Svidrigailov gives Dunya the key. The girl, throwing down her weapon, leaves.
Chapter 6
Svidrigailov spends the entire evening visiting taverns. Returning home, the man went to see Sonya. Arkady Ivanovich tells her that he might go to America. The girl thanks him for arranging the funeral and helping the orphans. A man gives her three thousand rubles so that she can live a normal life. The girl initially refuses, but Svidrigailov says that he 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 out into the street 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 new life. Rodion regrets that he was unable to cross the cherished threshold of his own theory and his conscience.
Chapter 8
Raskolnikov goes to Sonya. The girl puts cypress on it pectoral cross, advising him to go to an intersection, kiss the ground and say out loud "I am a murderer." 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. There the young man learns about Svidrigailov’s suicide.
Epilogue
Chapter 1
Rodion is sentenced to eight years of hard labor in Siberia. Pulcheria Alexandrovna fell ill at the beginning of the trial (her illness was nervous, more like insanity) and Dunya and Razumikhin took her away from St. Petersburg. The woman comes up with a story that Raskolnikov has left and lives with this fiction.
Sonya leaves for a party 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
At hard labor, Rodion could not find 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 mediocrely and stupidly. Svidrigailov, who managed to commit suicide, seems to the young man to be stronger in spirit than himself.
All the prisoners fell in love with Sonya, who came to Rodion; when they met, they took off their hats in front of her. The girl gave them money and things from loved ones.
Raskolnikov fell ill and is in the hospital, recovering hard and slowly. Sonya visited him regularly and one day Rodion, crying, threw himself at her feet and began hugging the girl’s knees. Sonya was scared at first, but then she realized “that he loves, loves her endlessly.” “They were resurrected by love, the heart of one contained endless sources of life for the heart of the other”
Conclusion
In the novel Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky examines issues of human morality, virtue and the human right to kill one’s neighbor. Using the example of the main character, the author shows that any crime is impossible without punishment - student Raskolnikov, who, wishing to become the same great personality as his idol Napoleon, kills the old pawnbroker, but cannot bear the moral torment after his crime and he himself admits his crime. guilt. In the novel, Dostoevsky emphasizes that even the greatest goals and ideas are not worth human life.
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The main character is Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a student who dropped out of university. He lives in a cramped closet, like a coffin, in poverty. He avoids his landlady because he owes her money. The action takes place in the summer, in a terrible stuffiness (the theme of “yellow Petersburg” runs through the entire novel). Raskolnikov goes to an old woman who lends money on bail. The old woman’s name is Alena Ivanovna, she lives with her half-sister, the dumb, downtrodden creature Lizaveta, who “walks around pregnant every minute,” works for the old woman and is completely enslaved by her. Raskolnikov brings a watch as collateral, remembering all the smallest details along the way, as he prepares to carry out his plan - to kill the old woman.
On the way back, he goes into a tavern, where he meets Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, a drunken official who talks about himself. His wife, Katerina Ivanovna, has three children from her first marriage. Her first husband was an officer, with whom she ran away from her parents' house, played cards, and beat her. Then he died, and out of despair and poverty she had to marry Marmeladov, who was an official, but then lost his job. From his first marriage, Marmeladov has a daughter, Sonya, who was forced to go to work in order to somehow feed herself and feed the rest of her children. Marmeladov drinks with her money and steals money from the house. Suffering from this. Raskolnikov takes him home. There is a scandal at home, Raskolnikov leaves, discreetly placing the money that the Marmeladov family so needs on the window. The next morning, Raskolnikov receives a letter from home from his mother, who apologizes for not being able to send money. The mother says that Raskolnikov’s sister Dunya entered the service of the Svidrigailovs. Svidrigailov treated her badly, then began to persuade her to have a love affair, promising all sorts of benefits. Svidrigailov's wife, Marfa Petrovna, overheard the conversation, blamed Dunya for everything and kicked her out of the house. Acquaintances turned away from the Raskolnikovs, since Marfa Petrovna rang about this throughout the district. Then everything became clear (Svidrigailov repented, Dunya’s indignant letter was found, the servants confessed). Marfa Petrovna told her friends about everything, the attitude changed, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin wooed Dunya, who was going to St. Petersburg to open a law office. Raskolnikov understands that his sister is selling herself in order to be able to help her brother, and decides to prevent the marriage. Raskolnikov goes out into the street and meets on the boulevard with a drunken girl, almost a girl, who, apparently, was drunk, dishonored and put out on the street. A guy walks nearby, trying on the girl. Raskolnikov gives money to the policeman so that he can take the girl home in a cab. She thinks about her future unenviable fate. Understands that a certain “percentage” goes exactly this way life path, but doesn’t want to put up with it. He goes to his friend Razumikhin and changes his mind along the way. Before reaching home, he falls asleep in the bushes. He has a terrible dream that he, little, is walking with his father to the cemetery where his younger brother is buried, past a tavern. It stands there draft horse harnessed to a cart. The drunken owner of the horse, Mikola, comes out of the tavern and invites his friends to sit down. The horse is old and cannot move the cart. Mikolka frantically whips her. Several more people join him. Mikolka kills a nag with a crowbar. The boy (Raskolnikov) throws his fists at Mikolka, his father takes him away. Raskolnikov wakes up and thinks about whether he can kill or not. Walking down the street, he accidentally hears a conversation between Lizaveta (the old woman’s sister) and friends who invite her to visit, i.e. the old woman will be left alone tomorrow. Raskolnikov enters a tavern, where he overhears a conversation between an officer and a student playing billiards about the old money-lender and about Lizaveta. They say that the old woman is vile and sucks blood from people. Student: I would kill her, rob her without a twinge of conscience, how many people disappear, and the vile old woman herself will die not today or tomorrow. Raskolnikov comes home and goes to bed. Then he prepares for the murder: he sews a loop for an ax under his coat, wraps a piece of wood with a piece of iron in paper, like a new “mortgage”, to distract the old woman. Then he steals an ax from the janitor's room. He goes to the old woman, gives her the “mortgage”, quietly takes out an ax and kills the pawnbroker. After that, he begins to rummage through cabinets, chests, etc. Suddenly Lizaveta returns. Raskolnikov is forced to kill her too. Then someone rings the doorbell. Raskolnikov doesn’t open it. Those who come notice that the door is locked from the inside with a latch, and feel something is wrong. Two go down after the janitor, one remains on the stairs, but then he can’t stand it and also goes down. Raskolnikov runs out of the apartment. The floor below is undergoing renovation. The visitors and the janitor are already climbing the stairs; Raskolnikov is taking refuge in the apartment, which is being renovated. The group goes up, Raskolnikov runs away.
Part 2
Raskolnikov wakes up, examines the clothes, destroys the evidence, and wants to hide the things he took from the old woman. The janitor comes and brings a summons to the police. Raskolnikov goes to the police station. It turns out that they are demanding that the landlady collect money in the case. At the station, Raskolnikov sees Luisa Ivanovna, the owner of the brothel. Raskolnikov explains to the clerk that at one time he promised to marry the daughter of his landlady, spent a lot, and issued bills. Then the owner's daughter died of typhus, and the owner began to demand payment of bills. Out of the corner of his ear, Raskolnikov hears a conversation at the police station about the murder of an old woman - the interlocutors are discussing the circumstances of the case.
Raskolnikov faints, then explains that he is unwell. Coming from the station, Raskolnikov takes the old woman’s things from home and hides them under a stone in a remote alley. After that, he goes to his friend Razumikhin and tries to chaotically explain something. Razumikhin offers to help, but Raskolnikov leaves. On the embankment, Raskolnikov almost falls under the carriage. Some merchant's wife and her daughter, mistaking him for a beggar, give Raskolnikov 20 kopecks. Raskolnikov takes it, but then throws the money into the Neva. It seemed to him that he was now completely cut off from the whole world. He comes home and goes to bed. Delirium begins: Raskolnikov imagines that the mistress is being beaten. When Raskolnikov woke up, he saw Razumikhin and the cook Nastasya in his room, who were caring for him during his illness. The artel worker comes and brings money from his mother (35 rubles). Razumikhin took the bill from the landlady and vouched for Raskolnikov that he would pay. Buys clothes for Raskolnikov. Zosimov, a medical student, comes to Raskolnikov’s closet to examine the patient. He talks with Razumikhin about the murder of the old pawnbroker. It turns out that the dyer Mikolai was arrested on suspicion of murder, and Koch and Pestryakov (those who came to the old woman during the murder) were released. Mikolai brought the owner of the liquor store a case with gold earrings, which he allegedly found on the street. She and Mitriy were painting right on the stairs where the old woman lived. The owner of the tavern began to find out and found out that Mikolay had been drinking for several days, and when he hinted at the murder, Mikolay started to run. Then he was arrested when he wanted to hang himself drunk in a barn (he had pawned a cross before that). He denies his guilt, he only admitted that he did not find the earrings on the street, but behind the door on the floor where they were painting. Zosimov and Razumikhin argue about the circumstances. Razumikhin reconstructs the whole picture of the murder - both how the killer was found in the apartment, and how he hid from the janitor, Kokh and Pestryakov on the floor below. At this time, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin comes to Raskolnikov. He is neatly dressed, but does not look like Raskolnikov. best experience. Luzhin reports that Raskolnikov's sister and mother are coming. They will stay in rooms (a cheap and dirty hotel), for which Luzhin pays. An acquaintance of Luzhin’s, Andrei Semenych Lebezyatnikov, also lives there. Luzhin philosophizes about what progress is. In his opinion, progress is driven by selfishness, that is, personal interest. If you share your last shirt with your neighbor, then neither he nor you will have a shirt, and you will both walk around half naked. The richer and more organized an individual is and the more such individuals there are, the richer and more comfortable the society is. The conversation turns again to the murder of the old woman. Zosimov says that the investigator is interrogating the pawnbrokers, that is, those who brought things to the old woman. Luzhin philosophizes about why crime has increased not only among the “lower classes,” but also among the relatively wealthy. Raskolnikov says that “according to your theory it happened” - if everyone is for himself, then people can be killed. “Is it true that you said that it is better to take a wife out of poverty, so that later you can better rule over her?” Luzhin is indignant and says that Raskolnikov’s mother is spreading this gossip. Raskolnikov quarrels with Luzhin and threatens to throw him down the stairs. After everyone has left, Raskolnikov gets dressed and goes to wander the streets. He ends up in an alley where brothels are located, etc. He thinks about those sentenced to death, who, before execution, are ready to agree to live in a space of a meter, on a rock, just to live. “Scoundrel man. And the one who calls him a scoundrel for this is a scoundrel.” Raskolnikov goes to a tavern and reads newspapers there. Zametov approaches him (the one who was at the police station when Raskolnikov fainted, and then came to Raskolnikov during his illness, an acquaintance of Razumikhin). They are talking about counterfeiters. Raskolnikov feels as if Zametov suspects him. He talks about what he would have done in the place of the counterfeiters, then about what he would have done with the old woman’s things if he had killed her. Then he asks directly: “What if I killed the old woman and Lizaveta? After all, you suspect me!” Leaves. Zosimov is sure that the suspicions about Raskolnikov are wrong.
Raskolnikov collides with Razumikhin. He invites Raskolnikov to a housewarming party. He refuses and asks everyone to leave him alone. Walking across the bridge. In front of his eyes, a woman tries to commit suicide by jumping from a bridge. They pull her out. Raskolnikov has thoughts of suicide. He goes to the crime scene and tries to question the workers and the janitor. They kick him out. Raskolnikov walks down the street, wondering whether to go to the police or not. Suddenly he hears screams and noise. He goes at them. The man was crushed by the crew. Raskolnikov recognizes Marmeladov. They take him home. At home, a wife with three children: two daughters - Polenka and Lidochka - and a son. Marmeladov dies, they send for the priest and Sonya. Katerina Ivanovna is hysterical, she blames the dying man, people, God. Marmeladov tries to ask Sonya for forgiveness before his death. Dies. Before leaving, Raskolnikov gives all the money he has left to Katerina Ivanovna, he says to Polenka, who catches up with him with words of gratitude so that she can pray for him. Raskolnikov understands that his life is not over yet. “Haven’t I lived now? My life with the old woman has not yet died! He goes to Razumikhin. He, despite the housewarming party, accompanies Raskolnikov home. The dear one says that Zametov and Ilya Petrovich suspected Raskolnikov, and now Zametov repents, and that Porfiry Petrovich (the investigator) wants to meet Raskolnikov. Zosimov has his own theory that Raskolnikov is crazy. Raskolnikov and Razumikhin come to Raskolnikov’s closet and find his mother and sister there. Raskolnikov takes a few steps back and faints.
Raskolnikov silently took the hands of his sister and mother in his hands, looking intently into their eyes. The mother was frightened by his gaze; there was a strong feeling in it and something motionless, as if crazy. Rodion began to persuade his mother and sister to go to his place, assuring that Razumikhin would look after him. When the name Luzhin was mentioned, he told his sister that he did not want this marriage. Dunya did not argue with her brother, seeing his condition. Razumikhin managed to convince Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya to go to the rooms rented for them by Luzhin, and volunteered to accompany them.
Razumikhin was very excited. His state resembled some kind of delight. He did not yet realize that he immediately fell in love with Raskolnikov’s sister. Having brought both ladies to the indicated address, he was amazed at what bad rooms Luzhin had rented for them. He strictly ordered them not to open the door to strangers. Razumikhin promised to tell them about Rodion’s condition, which he subsequently did.
Mother and daughter were left in anxious anticipation. Avdotsya Romanovna, lost in thought, walked from corner to corner. She was pretty - tall, slender, strong, confident. The expression on her face was almost always serious, but how a smile came to that face, how her cheerful, young laughter came to her! Pulcheria Alexandrovna, at forty-three years old, looked much younger than her years and her face still retained the remnants of the beauty of her youth.
As promised, Razumikhin came to talk about Rodion’s condition and brought Zosimov to them. He spoke in more detail about Raskolnikov’s illness. In the morning, Razumikhin again visited Raskolnikov’s sister and mother. We talked again about his condition. The conversation also turned to Rodion's deceased fiancee. Razumikhin himself knew little about this, but said that the bride was not good-looking and very sick. There is no dowry. In general, it is difficult to judge this matter. The marriage did not take place due to the sudden death of the bride.
Pulcheria Alexandrovna gained such trust in Razumikhin that she decided to discuss another rather delicate issue with him. It turned out that Luzhin, who did not meet them at the station, but only sent a lackey, gave them the letter. This letter said that he was going to visit them that evening, but asked that Rodion not be present at the meeting. Further in the letter, he told his sister and mother that he met Rodion in the apartment of a drunkard crushed by horses and saw with his own eyes how Rodion gave twenty-five rubles to a girl of “notorious behavior” supposedly for a funeral. The mother did not know how to tell her son not to come. Avdotya Romanovna, on the contrary, decided that Rodion must certainly be present at their meeting with Luzhin in order to immediately resolve all misunderstandings. Having decided nothing, everyone went to Rodion.
Compared to yesterday, Rodion was almost healthy, which Zosimov confirmed. Raskolnikov told his mother that yesterday he gave the money she had sent for Marmeladov’s funeral. He asked her for forgiveness, but there was a widow, a pitiful woman, and hungry children.
The more they talked, the more tension arose in the conversation. “But they are definitely afraid of me,” thought Raskolnikov. To defuse the situation, Pulcheria Alexandrovna began to talk about the death of Marfa Petrovna, Svidrigailov’s wife. They say that her husband beat her terribly, she went into town, had lunch and went to the bathhouse. There she suffered a stroke. There was another pause in the conversation. “Are you sure you’re afraid of me?” - said Raskolnikov. “It’s really true,” Dunya answered honestly. The mother protested, Rodion took her hand: “Come on, Mama, we’ll have time to talk.” Having said this, he became embarrassed and turned pale. He realized that he had told a terrible lie, that now he would never be able to talk to anyone. This thought struck him so much that he stood up and quickly left the room.
Razumikhin stopped him. Quite unexpectedly for everyone, he said: “Why are you so boring! Let's talk! " He explained his behavior by saying that he remembered one thing. This calmed everyone down. Zosimov took his leave and left. Razumikhin also began to say goodbye. Raskolnikov remembered his love for the landlady's daughter. This ugly girl She was very pious and loved to give to the poor. Suddenly he stood up and, without looking at anyone, walked around the room again. Then he seriously told his sister that he would not give up his own: “Either I or Luzhin.” It was clear that Avdotya Romanovna was thinking about his words yesterday. She replied that she was marrying Luzhin not for Rodion, but for herself. Raskolnikov thought she was lying. They showed him Luzhin's letter. Raskolnikov was surprised by how illiterate and dryly it was written. He decided not to argue with his sister anymore: “I’ll do what’s best for you.” Dunya urgently asked him to be present at the meeting with Luzhin this evening.
At that moment a girl unexpectedly entered the room. It was Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladova. Today she was a modestly dressed girl, almost a girl with decent manners. She was embarrassed to see a room full of people. Looking at her more closely, Raskolnikov realized that this creature was extremely humiliated. Everything in him suddenly turned upside down. Seeing her move to leave, he stopped her. Sonya embarrassedly conveyed to Raskolnikov Katerina Ivanovna’s invitation to attend Marmeladov’s funeral.
Raskolnikov's sister and mother left. The mother was worried about her son meeting a girl with such a reputation. Dunya called Luzhin a gossip; she was sure that Sonya was a beautiful girl. And Raskolnikov started talking to Razumikhin about his things pawned with the murdered old woman pawnbroker. He heard that investigator Porfiry Petrovich was interviewing the pawnbrokers. He kept a silver watch there, which was dear to his mother as a memory of his father. Rodion said that he would not want them to get lost. Razumikhin believed that it was better to turn to Porfiry Petrovich.
Seeing that Raskolnikov needed to go, Sonechka hurried again. They all left together. On the street, Raskolnikov found out Sonya's address and promised to come to her. He couldn't say goodbye to her. Finally, they parted.
Sonya was so excited by the meeting and Raskolnikov’s promise to come see her that she did not notice the gentleman who had been carefully watching them even during their conversation and then followed her. He was a man of about fifty, above average height, with broad, steep shoulders. He was dressed smartly and comfortably. He had a beautiful cane in his hands, and fresh gloves on his hands. He had blond hair, a wide thick beard and Blue eyes. Seeing the house Sonya entered, the man was very surprised. It turned out that they occupied adjacent rooms.
Further, in part 3 of the novel “Crime and Punishment” it is said that Raskolnikov and Razumikhin went to Porfiry Petrovich. They started talking about the old woman again. Raskolnikov said that he visited her three days before the murder. Raskolnikov entered Porfiry Petrovich’s room, barely holding back his laughter, and Razumikhin, completely enraged. The fact is that Raskolnikov began to make fun of Razumikhin’s love for Dunya. Raskolnikov was unpleasantly surprised that Porfiry Petrovich had Zametov. Porfiry Petrovich received the guest with emphatic courtesy. Raskolnikov briefly and clearly outlined the essence of his case. Porfiry Petrovich said that you need to write a statement at the office regarding the pawned things. Raskolnikov, emphasizing his limited means, asked if this statement could be written on plain paper. Raskolnikov marveled aloud at Porfiry Petrovich’s amazing memory - after all, there were many pawnbrokers, and he remembered that Raskolnikov had come for the watch. He calmly, with a hint of mockery, answered: “All the pawnbrokers have already visited, you’re the only one who didn’t deign to come.” Raskolnikov spoke about his illness, anger began to boil within him. “But in anger I’ll let it slip!” - flashed through him.
Much in this conversation worried Raskolnikov. He was unpleasantly surprised by Porfiry’s remark that Nikodim Fomich met him at Marmeladov’s. Porfiry Petrovich turned the conversation to their argument yesterday at Razumikhin’s. It turned out that they were arguing about a crime. Razumikhin spoke critically yesterday and stood his ground today regarding the opinion of the socialists. They believe that the social system is to blame for crimes. Porfiry Petrovich asked Raskolnikov’s opinion on this issue. It turned out that he had read his article in the newspaper Periodical Press. Raskolnikov did not even know that this article of his had been published. Porfiry Petrovich outlined the essence of the article in a pointedly primitive manner.
Raskolnikov was forced to explain his point of view in more detail. He believes that extraordinary people have the right, in conscience, to step over certain obstacles if the implementation of an idea requires it. For example, if Newton's discoveries could remain unknown because of the lives of ten, a hundred or more people who interfered with this, then he would have the right and even the obligation to eliminate these ten, hundred people. Most of historical figures were terrible bloodshed. Porfiry Petrovich noticed that if there were a lot of such extraordinary people, it would become creepy, sir. Raskolnikov sadly and calmly explained that such people are rarely born. Razumikhin was horrified by this theory, because it turns out that Raskolnikov allows blood out of conscience, and this is worse than an official permission to kill. To the poisonous question, what if ordinary person imagines himself extraordinary and commits a crime, Raskolnikov explained that this is why investigators and prisons exist in society. Then, an ordinary person will definitely stop halfway towards the goal, his conscience will begin to torment him, he will repent. Porfiry Petrovich asked if, when he wrote this article, he considered himself an extraordinary person. Raskolnikov replied that it was possible. Porfiry Petrovich did not let up and asked him if he could kill? There was a pause. Raskolnikov looked at everyone gloomily and prepared to leave. Finally, Porfiry Petrovich asked Raskolnikov if he had seen painters on the stairs on his last visit to Alena Ivanovna. Raskolnikov understood the catch and replied that he had not seen anyone. (After all, the painters were painting on the day the old woman was killed, but three days before the murder they were not there).
Raskolnikov and Razumikhin left Porfiry Petrovich gloomy and gloomy. They headed to the rooms where Raskolnikov's mother and sister were staying. On the way to them, Raskolnikov gave Razumikhin the idea to talk frankly with Porfiry Petrovich about why they suspected Raskolnikov of murdering the old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov suddenly left Razumikhin at the rooms and quickly went to his room. He thought that some small thing from the old woman’s belongings could remain in his room, which would become irrefutable evidence against him. He searched the hole in which the old woman’s things lay, but there was nothing left there.
Deep in thought, Raskolnikov left the house. At the gate he saw that the janitor pointed at him to an elderly man. The tradesman looked at him carefully and, without saying anything, left. Raskolnikov caught up with him, walked alongside him for a while, then asked why he was looking for him. "Killer!" - he said in a quiet but clear voice. He returned to his closet with weakened steps and lay down on the bed. Some fragments of thoughts flashed through his head.
Razumikhin and Nastasya arrived. Raskolnikov pretended to be asleep, and they decided not to wake him. Raskolnikov forgot. He dreamed that he saw a tradesman on the street. He looked around and beckoned Raskolnikov to follow him. It turned out that the tradesman brought him with him to the old woman’s apartment. She sat hunched over on a chair. Raskolnikov thought that she was afraid of him and bent down to look at the old woman. Then he saw that she was laughing. Raskolnikov grabbed an ax and began to hit her on the head, but the old woman continued to laugh. He started to run, but there were people everywhere. Raskolnikov woke up in horror.
The dream seemed to continue. The door to his room was open, standing on the threshold stranger. Raskolnikov pretended to be asleep, the man was silent. “Tell me what you want?” - asked Raskolnikov. “I knew you weren’t sleeping,” the stranger laughed. It was Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov.
Source (abbreviated): Big reference book: The whole Russian language. All Russian literature / I.N. Agekyan, N.M. Volchek and others - Mn.: Modern writer, 2003
Brief summaries of other parts of the novel “Crime and Punishment”: H
Svidrigailov came to ask Raskolnikov to organize his meeting with Avdotya Romanovna. “They won’t let me into their yard alone, without a recommendation.” He admitted to Raskolnikov that he truly fell in love with his sister. “You simply disgust me, whether you are right or wrong,” he replied to Svidrigailov’s attempt to present himself as a victim of unrequited love in the story with Avdotya Romanovna. Regarding the death of his wife (there were rumors that he was to blame for it), Svidrigailov said that his conscience was completely calm: “The medical investigation discovered apoplexy, which occurred from swimming after a hearty dinner with a bottle of wine. I hit the whip only twice, there weren’t even any signs.” Svidrigailov cynically argued that Marfa Petrovna was even glad of this, because everyone was already tired of the story with Raskolnikov’s sister, and she had nothing to talk about when she came from the city. And after beating her husband, she immediately ordered the carriage to be pawned and went to the city on visits.
Despite Raskolnikov's rather unceremonious questions, Svidrigailov was calm and said that Rodion seemed strange to him. Svidrigailov mentioned that he used to be a sharper, that he was in prison for debts, but Marfa Petrovna bought him out. They got married and went to live with her in the village. She loved him, but kept a document against him in case he decided to rebel. So he lived continuously in the village for 7 years. Svidrigailov mentioned Marfa Petrovna so often in conversation that Raskolnikov directly asked if he missed her. “Really, maybe...”
Svidrigailov spoke in detail about the visits of Marfa Petrovna, who came to him after her death. Then he admitted that not only she appeared to him, but also his servant, for whose death rumor also accused him. Raskolnikov was tired of Svidrigailov’s reasoning, balancing on the brink of common sense and the ravings of a madman. He asked Svidrigailov to say directly what he needed. He said that Avdotya Romanovna should not marry Luzhin. Svidrigailov planned a voyage, some kind of journey. His children are well off; they are with their aunt. He would like to see Avdotya Romanovna in the presence of Raskolnikov and explain to her that Mr. Luzhin will not bring her any benefit. He understands him well; the quarrel with his wife occurred precisely because she concocted this wedding. He wants to apologize to Raskolnikov’s sister for all the trouble he caused her, and then offer her 10 thousand rubles to ease the break with Luzhin.
Raskolnikov refused to convey to his sister this daring proposal from Svidrigailov. But he threatened that in this case he would seek a meeting with Raskolnikov’s sister, and he promised to convey his proposal to his sister. At the end of the visit, Svidrigailov said that Marfa Petrovna bequeathed three thousand rubles to Avdotya Romanovna.
Further, in part 4 of the novel “Crime and Punishment,” Dostoevsky talks about how Svidrigailov encountered Razumikhin at the door. Raskolnikov and Razumikhin went to Rodion’s mother and sister to meet with Luzhin. On the way, Razumikhin told him that he tried to talk to Porfiry Petrovich and Zametov about their suspicions, but “they definitely don’t understand.” In the corridor they ran into Luzhin, and they all entered the room together.
Pyotr Petrovich looked like an offended man. The conversation didn't go well at first. Then Pyotr Petrovich started talking about Svidrigailov, considering it his duty to warn the ladies that he had gone to St. Petersburg immediately after his wife’s funeral. He said that Marfa Petrovna not only bought him out of prison at one time, but through her efforts a criminal case was extinguished, for which Svidrigailov could have ended up in Siberia. Dunya asked to tell us more about this. It turned out that Svidrigailov was in a close relationship with the foreigner Resslich. She had a niece living with her, a girl about 15 years old, deaf and dumb. Her aunt treated her very cruelly. One day a girl was found hanged in the attic. It was officially announced that this was suicide, but there were rumors that the child was severely insulted by Svidrigailov. Luzhin mentioned the death of the yard man Philip, for which Svidrigailov was also accused. Regarding Philip, Avdotya Romanovna noted that she had heard that this Philip was a hypochondriac, a domestic philosopher, and that he hanged himself from the ridicule of others, and not from beatings from the owner.
Raskolnikov told those present that Svidrigailov was with him and asked him to convey some proposal to his sister. Raskolnikov refused to say what exactly Svidrigailov proposed; he also said that Marfa Petrovna bequeathed three thousand rubles to Duna. Luzhin prepared to leave, since Raskolnikov did not say what exactly Svidrigailov’s proposal was and his request for Raskolnikov’s absence during their meeting was not granted. Dunya replied that she had specifically invited her brother to resolve the misunderstanding that had arisen between them. Luzhin believes that Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya, who left everything and came to St. Petersburg, are now completely in his power. Raskolnikov caught Luzhin in a lie. After all, he gave the money to the mother of the unfortunate widow, and not to her daughter, whom he saw then for the first time, Pyotr Petrovich wrote about this.
Luzhin was confident in the helplessness of his victims. Seeing their independence and calm self-confidence, he became furious. Out of anger, he threatened that he would leave now forever. Dunya replied that she did not want him to return. Luzhin, no longer able to control himself, began to say that he had proposed to Dunya, disregarding public opinion and restoring her reputation, highly hoping for gratitude. “Now I see that I acted rashly!” After these words, Razumikhin wanted to literally throw him out of the room, but Rodion stopped him and calmly told Luzhin to get out. He looked at him for several seconds with a pale and distorted face, then left the room. Coming down the stairs, he still assumed that this matter could be improved.
Arriving home, Luzhin felt deep indignation against the “black ingratitude” of his bride. Meanwhile, wooing her, he was sure of the absurdity of all the gossip circulating about her. But he highly valued his determination to elevate Dunya to himself. By reprimanding Duna about this, he actually expressed his secret thought that everyone would admire him for this feat. He simply needed Dunya. For a long time he had been enthusiastically thinking about marrying a well-behaved, but certainly poor girl, pretty and educated, very intimidated, who had experienced a lot in life, who would consider him her benefactor, obeying him and only him unquestioningly. And now this dream has almost come true. A proud, virtuous, well-mannered girl appeared, her development was higher than his. And over such a creature he will have unlimited dominion! In addition, he wanted to make a career in St. Petersburg, and a wife like Dunya could attract people to him and create an aura. And then it all collapsed. Luzhin decided to fix all this tomorrow, to settle it all.
In Pulcheria Alexandrovna’s room everyone was heatedly discussing what had happened. The mother was glad that God saved her daughter from such a person as Luzhin. Everyone was happy. Only Raskolnikov sat gloomy and motionless. He was asked to talk about Svidrigailov’s proposal. He briefly conveyed the offer of money and the request for a date, noting that he himself had refused money for Dunya. It is clear that he most likely has bad plans in mind. Rodion admitted that Svidrigailov behaved rather strangely, with signs of insanity. Apparently, the death of Marfa Petrovna had an effect. Razumikhin promised to keep an eye on Svidrigailov in order to protect Dunya from him. Pulcheria Alexandrovna started talking about leaving St. Petersburg, since she was now broken with Luzhin. But Razumikhin invited them to stay in the city. With Marfa Petrovna's three thousand and his one thousand, which his uncle promised, they could organize their own publishing house. Everyone really liked this idea.
Rodion remembered the murder and got ready to leave. “I wanted to say that it’s better for us not to see each other for a while. I'll come when I can. Forget me completely. When necessary, I will come, but now, if you love me, forget me completely. Otherwise I will hate you!”
Rodion left. Everyone was terribly afraid of these words. Razumikhin ran to catch up with Rodion. It turned out that Raskolnikov was waiting for him at the end of the corridor. He asked his friend to visit his sister and mother tomorrow. “I'll come... if possible. Goodbye! Leave me, don't leave them! Do you understand me?" Razumikhin returned to Pulcheria Alexandrovna, reassured them both, swore that Rodion needed to rest, and promised to inform them about his condition.
Part 4 of the novel “Crime and Punishment” continues with Raskolnikov going to Sonya. Sonya's room looked more like a barn. Raskolnikov started talking to her about his father, Katerina Ivanovna. I remembered that, according to Marmeladov, Katerina Ivanovna beat Sonya. She interrupted him. “No, what are you talking about? If only you knew. After all, she is just like a child. Her mind has gone crazy with grief.” Raskolnikov started talking about the future of Sonya and Katerina Ivanovna’s other children. It is clear that Katerina Ivanovna is seriously ill and will not last long; Sonya herself may soon end up in the hospital during her work and also die. Then Polenka will only have the same path as Sonya herself, and the same end. But Sonya is sure that God will not allow such horror.
He talked to her about God, what does he do to her because she prays to him? “Does everything!” - she whispered quickly. Raskolnikov walked around the room all the time and saw a book lying on the fireplace. He took her to look. It turned out that this is the “New Testament”. The book was old. Sonya said that Lizaveta brought her this book, and they often read it together. Raskolnikov asked Sonya to read to him about the resurrection of Lazarus. Having finished reading, Sonya closed the book and turned away from him. Rodion said that Sonya ruined her life to save her family. They are cursed together and now they have to go down the same road. He left. Sonya spent that night in fever and delirium. Various thoughts swarmed in her head. “He must be terribly unhappy!.., abandoned his mother and sister... said that he could not live without her. Oh my God!"
Behind the door on the right, which separated Sonya's apartment from Gertrud Resslich's apartment, there was an intermediate room. It had been empty for a long time, and Sonya considered it uninhabited. However, during the entire conversation at the door empty room The gentleman stood and listened to everything attentively. He liked this conversation so much that he even brought a chair and placed it by the door so that it would be more convenient to listen next time. This gentleman was Svidrigailov.
The next morning, Raskolnikov went to Porfiry Petrovich’s office. He was ready for a new fight. Did the tradesman report him or not, throwing the word “murderer” in his face? He hated Porfiry and was afraid to reveal himself with this hatred. Raskolnikov thought that he would be immediately invited into the office, but he had to wait. He promised himself to be silent more, to look closely and listen. At that moment he was called into the office.
Porfiry greeted the guest with the most cheerful and friendly appearance. “He, however, extended both hands to me, but didn’t give me either,” thought Raskolnikov. Both watched each other, but as soon as their gazes met, they immediately looked away. Raskolnikov said that he had brought the necessary paper about the watch. Porfiry began to say that there was nowhere to rush, that his apartment was behind a partition. But his words did not correspond to the serious, thinking look with which Porfiry looked at Raskolnikov. This made him angry. He said that investigators have a technique - to talk to the suspect about trifles, and then stun him with a direct and insidious question. Porfiry began to laugh, Raskolnikov started to laugh too, but then stopped. It turned out that Porfiry was laughing at his guest right in the face. Raskolnikov realized that there was something that he did not yet know.
Porfiry said that interrogation in the form of a free, friendly conversation can yield more than interrogation in its entire form. As a future lawyer, he gave Raskolnikov an example: “If I consider someone a criminal, why would I ahead of schedule Will I start bothering him, even though I have evidence against him? Why not let him walk around the city? If I imprison him too early, I will give him moral support. So you say evidence, but evidence is double-edged... Yes, if I left the other gentleman completely alone, I wouldn’t take him, don’t bother him, but so that he knew every minute or suspected that I know everything, I’m watching him day and night . So he will come himself or do something that will be definitive evidence. Nerves... you forgot them! Let him walk around the city, but I already know that he is my victim. Where should he run? Abroad? No, the Pole is running abroad, not him. Into the depths of the fatherland? But real Russian men live there, because it’s developed, modern man He would rather live in prison than with foreigners like our men! He won’t escape me psychologically,” Porfiry reasoned.
Raskolnikov sat pale. “This is no longer a cat and mouse like yesterday, he is smarter. But you have no evidence, you’re scaring me, you’re being cunning!” He decided to remain silent further. Porfiry continued: “You, Rodion Romanovich, are a young man, witty. But reality and nature are an important thing. Wit is a great thing, where can a poor investigator guess everything? But nature helps. But enthusiastic young people won’t even think about this! Let us suppose that he will lie successfully, in the most cunning way. Yes, in the most interesting, in the most scandalous place, he will faint... Don’t you feel stuffy that you have turned so pale?”
Raskolnikov asked not to worry and suddenly burst out laughing. Porfiry looked at him and began to laugh with him. Raskolnikov abruptly stopped his laughter and said seriously that he now clearly sees that Porfiry suspects him of murdering the old woman and her sister Lizaveta. If he has a reason, he can arrest him, but if not, then he won’t allow himself to be laughed at in his face. His eyes lit up with fury. "I will not let it!" - Raskolnikov shouted. Porfiry looked concerned and began to calm Rodion down. Then he brought his face closer to Raskolnikov and almost whispered that his words could be heard and then what should he say to them? But Rodion mechanically repeated this phrase. Porfiry Petrovich offered Raskolnikov water. Porfiry’s fear and participation were so natural that Raskolnikov fell silent. Porfiry began to say that Rodion had a seizure, and he needed to take care of himself. So yesterday Dmitry Prokofievich (Razumikhin) came to him and said such things that we just threw up our hands. Did he really infer that from my caustic words? Didn't he come from you? Raskolnikov had already calmed down a little and said that Razumikhin did not come from him, but he knew why he came to Porfiry.
“After all, father, I don’t even know such feats of yours. I know that you went to rent an apartment, rang the bell, asked about the blood, confused the workers and the janitor. I understand your emotional mood at that time, but you would drive yourself crazy like that. Your indignation from insults first, from fate, and then from the police officer is really boiling. So you are rushing around to get everyone to talk and get this over with as soon as possible. Did I guess your mood? But you will not only make yourself, but also Razumikhin, spin like this, because he is very a kind person" Raskolnikov looked with surprise at Porfiry, who was caring for him. He continued: “Yes, I had such a case. One also slandered murder on himself, summed up the facts, confused everyone. He himself unintentionally became the cause of the murder; as soon as he found out that he had given the killers a reason, he became so sad, he began to imagine that it was he who killed. But the Senate sorted out this case, and the unfortunate man was acquitted. This way you can get a fever if you go out at night to ring bells and ask about blood. This is a disease, Rodion Romanovich!”
Raskolnikov no longer understood Porfiry’s line of reasoning, what was the catch. He insisted that he went to the old woman’s apartment fully conscious and not delirious. Porfiry claimed that Raskolnikov deliberately said that he knew about Razumikhin’s visit to Porfiry and insisted on deliberately coming to the old woman’s apartment. Porfiry believed that Raskolnikov was playing a subtle game with him. “I won’t allow myself to be tortured, arrest me, search me throughout my uniform, but don’t play with me!” - Rodion shouted furiously. Porfiry responded to this with his sly smile that he invited Raskolnikov in a homely, friendly way. In a frenzy, Raskolnikov shouted that he did not need this friendship. “I’ll take my cap and leave. Well, what do you say now? He grabbed his cap and went to the door. “Would you like to see a surprise?” - Porfiry chuckled, stopping him near the door. “Surprise, he’s sitting right here outside my door,” he continued. “You lie and tease me so that I give myself away!” - Rodion shouted, trying to open the door behind which Porfiry’s “surprise” was sitting. “It’s impossible to give away more of yourself, father. After all, you have gone into a frenzy!” - “You’re all lying! You have no facts, only guesses!” - Rodion shouted.
At that moment, a noise was heard and something happened that neither Porfiry nor Rodion could count on. A pale man burst into the room after a short struggle at the door. He was young, dressed like a commoner. It was the painter Nikolai, who was painting the floor in the apartment on the floor below, in the house of the murdered pawnbroker. He said that he killed the old woman and Lizaveta. This message was completely unexpected for Porfiry. Nikolai said that darkness came over him and he killed both women with an ax. And he ran down the stairs to divert attention after the murder. “He’s not speaking his own words,” muttered Porfiry. He caught himself and, taking Raskolnikov by the hand, pointed to the door. “You didn’t expect this?” - asked Rodion, who perked up greatly after Nikolai appeared. “And you, father, didn’t expect it either. Look how my hand is trembling!”
Raskolnikov came out, passing through the office, he saw both janitors from the old woman’s house. Porfiry stopped him on the stairs and said that they would need to talk again in full, and they would see each other again. Rodion went home. He understood that it would soon become clear that Nikolai was lying. But his confession gave Rodion some respite in the fight against the smart Porfiry. At home, Raskolnikov kept thinking about his conversation in the office. Finally, he got up to go to Marmeladov’s funeral, and then suddenly the door to his room opened on its own. Yesterday's man stood on the threshold, as if from underground. Raskolnikov died. The man paused and then silently bowed to Rodion. He asked to be forgiven for his “evil thoughts.” It turned out that this tradesman was standing at the gate during Rodion’s conversation with the janitors. After this conversation, he followed Rodion and found out his name and address. With this he went to the investigator and told him everything. He was sitting at closed door during the conversation between Rodion and Porfiry and heard how “he tortured him.” The tradesman was the surprise that Porfiry was talking about. Hearing Nikolai's confession, the tradesman realized that he was mistaken in considering Rodion a murderer, and came to ask for his forgiveness. Rodion's heart was relieved. This meant that Porfiry still did not have any solid evidence of Rodion's guilt. Rodion felt more confident. “Now we will fight again!” - he thought with a grin as he went down the stairs.
“Crime and Punishment” by F.M. Dostoevsky is a voluminous classic work that raises questions about the moral nature of man, his relationships with the outside world, the presence of moral values and norms.
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Part 1
- Student Rodion Raskolnikov owes his landlady a large sum of money for housing. In order to find funds to pay the debt, Raskolnikov decides to kill the old woman, pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna.
He is pondering the “mysterious matter”, trying to answer the question “Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right?” Taking things with him for collateral, Raskolnikov goes up to the old woman’s apartment and carefully looks around, trying to remember the situation.
Tormented by the thoughts that what he had planned was “dirty and disgusting,” the young man goes to the tavern.
- The official Marmeladov becomes Raskolnikov's drinking companion. He complains to the student about his situation, but clarifies that “poverty is not a vice,” but poverty is “poverty is a vice, sir,” for which “one is kicked out of society with a broom.”
The official talks about his family life- about his wife, who has three children from a previous marriage and married Marmeladov out of despair, and about his own daughter Sonechka, who is forced to earn money at the panel due to lack of livelihood.
Marmeladov gets drunk, and Rodion takes him home, where he becomes an involuntary witness to a family scandal.
- Raskolnikov is in his room, a “tiny cell”, where he reads a letter from his mother. In it, a woman complains that Native sister Rodiona Dunya was groundlessly insulted and fired by Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova, for whom she worked as a governess.
However, after Arkady Svidrigailov’s honest confession to his wife, the former mistress apologized to Dunya and introduced her to everyone as an honest and prudent girl. This story attracted the attention of adviser Pyotr Luzhin, who wooed Duna.
There is no love between them, and the age difference is great (Luzhin is 45 years old), but the fact that he has “a small capital” decides the matter. The mother writes that she will soon arrive with Dunya in St. Petersburg to prepare for the wedding.
- His mother's letter makes a strong impression on Rodion. He wanders aimlessly through the streets, thinking about the fate of his sister. He understands that the reason for the marriage is only the plight of his relatives and is looking for ways to help Duna.
His thoughts again lead him to the idea of killing the pawnbroker. While walking, a student sees a disgusting scene - a young drunk girl is being accosted by some boor.
Raskolnikov stands up for her, but he is haunted by the thought that such a fate awaits many poor girls. The student goes to his university friend Razumikhin for advice and help.
- Razumikhin promises to help Raskolnikov find private lessons. But Rodion decides to do this later, “when it’s already over and when everything goes in a new way.”
On the way home, the young man stops at a tavern to have a snack and drink a glass of vodka, because of which he gets drunk and falls asleep right on the street under a bush. The following describes “Raskolnikov’s Dream about a Horse.”
Waking up in a cold sweat, the student decides that he is not ready to kill - this was once again proven by his nightmare. But on the way he meets Lizaveta, his unhealthy sister. Alena Ivanovna with whom they live together.
Raskolnikov hears Lizaveta being called to visit and understands that tomorrow she will not be at home. This leads him to the idea that the opportune moment is coming to carry out his “secret business” and that “everything has suddenly been finally decided.”
- The chapter tells the story of Raskolnikov's acquaintance with a pawnbroker. His friend Pokorev once gave him the old woman’s address in case he needed to pawn something for money.
From the very first meeting, the pawnbroker disgusts Raskolnikov, because she makes money from people in trouble. Moreover, he learns about the old woman’s unfair attitude towards her sister, who is not of sound mind.
Sitting in a tavern, a student overhears a conversation where one of the strangers declares that he is ready to kill the “old witch,” but not because of profit, but “because of justice,” and that such people are unworthy to live on earth.
Returning to his closet, Rodion ponders his decision and falls asleep. In the morning he gets up with full readiness to fulfill his plans. The young man sews a loop to the inside of his coat so that he can hide the ax.
He steals the ax itself from the janitor's room. He takes out a hidden “pledge”, which should become a pretext for going to the old woman, and resolutely sets off on his way.
- Raskolnikov at the old woman's house. The pawnbroker, suspecting nothing, tries to examine the cigarette box that the student brought for the mortgage and stands closer to the light, with her back to her killer. At this time, Raskolnikov picks up an ax and hits her on the head with it.
The old woman falls, and the student searches the pockets of her clothes. He takes out the keys to the chest in the bedroom, opens it and begins to collect "riches", filling the pockets of his jacket and coat. Suddenly Lizaveta returns. Raskolnikov, without hesitation, rushes at her with an ax.
Only after this the young man is overcome with horror at what he has done. He tries to destroy the traces, washes off the blood, but hears someone approaching the apartment. The doorbell rings. Raskolnikov does not answer. Those who come realize that something has happened to the old woman and go after the janitor.
After waiting until there is no one left on the stairs, Raskolnikov heads home, where he leaves the ax in the same place, and he throws himself on the bed and falls into unconsciousness.
Part 2
- Only at three o'clock in the afternoon does Raskolnikov come to his senses. He is close to madness. Noticing that drops of blood remained on him, Rodion washes his soiled boot and meticulously examines himself. After that, he hides the stolen things and falls asleep again.
He is awakened by the janitor's knock on the door - the young man is called to the police. Panicked by the expectation of being charged with murder, the student goes to the department, but it turns out that he was called in following a complaint from his landlady because of a debt for housing.
At this time, a conversation takes place nearby about the murder of a pawnbroker. Hearing the details, Rodion faints.
- Returning home, Raskolnikov decides to get rid of the old woman’s jewelry, “loads his pockets with them” and goes towards the Neva. However, fearing witnesses, he does not throw them into the water, but finds a remote yard and hides everything under a stone.
At the same time, the young man does not take a penny from his wallet, considering it “disgusting.” Raskolnikov goes to visit Razumikhin. He notices that his friend is sick, is in an excited state and offers help.
But Rodion refuses and returns home in delirium, almost getting run over by a stroller.
- After spending several days in delirium, Rodion comes to his senses and sees in his room Razumikhin, the landlady’s cook Nastasya and an unfamiliar guy in a caftan. The guy turns out to be an artel worker who brought a transfer from his mother - 35 rubles.
Razumikhin says that during Raskolnikov’s illness, medical student Zosimov examined him, but found nothing serious. The young man worries whether he said something unnecessary in his delirium and forces his friend to retell his statements.
Realizing that no one guessed anything, Raskolnikov falls asleep again, and Razumikhin decides to buy with the money received new clothes for friend.
- Zosimov comes for the next examination of the patient. During the visit, the conversation turns to the murder of an old woman and her sister. Raskolnikov reacts very badly to these conversations, but tries to hide it by turning to the wall.
Meanwhile, it turns out that the dyer Nikolai, who was working on the renovation of a neighbor’s apartment, has been arrested. He brought gold earrings from the old woman’s chest for payment to the tavern.
Nikolai is detained on suspicion of murdering a pawnbroker, but the police have no reliable evidence.
- Luzhin, the fiancé of Dunya’s sister, comes to visit Rodion. Raskolnikov reproaches the man for wanting to take advantage of the girl’s plight and forcibly marrying her to himself.
Luzhin is trying to justify himself. During the conversation, the topic of crime comes up. There is a quarrel. Luzhin leaves, and his friends notice that Rodion doesn’t really care about anything, “except for one point that makes him lose his temper: murder...”.
- Left alone, Raskolnikov decides to go outside. Having put on a new dress, the young man wanders the streets, enters a tavern and meets Zametov there, a clerk at the police station who was present when Rodion fainted.
Raskolnikov behaves very strangely, laughs, grimaces and almost directly admits to killing the old woman. Leaving the tavern, the student continues his aimless walk around the city.
Without noticing it, the young man approaches the old woman’s house, where he begins to talk about what happened and leaves only after the janitor shouts.
- Raskolnikov sees a crowd - a horse has crushed a man. Rodion recognizes the old Marmeladov in the victim. Finding himself at the official’s house, Raskolnikov sends for the doctor and meets Sonechka.
The doctor cannot help and, after asking his daughter for forgiveness, Marmeladov dies. Raskolnikov gives the widow all the remaining money and returns home, where he is met by his mother and sister who have come to visit. At the sight of them, the young man loses consciousness.
Part 3
- The mother, concerned about her son's condition, wants to stay to care for him. But Rodion does not allow it and begins to persuade Dunya not to marry Luzhin.
Razumikhin, who was visiting all this time, was captivated by Dunya’s beauty and grace. He promises good care for their son and brother and persuades the women to return to the hotel.
- Razumikhin cannot forget Dunya and goes to their rooms. During his visit, the conversation turns to Luzhin. Mother shows a letter in which future groom asks for a meeting, insisting that Rodion is not there.
Luzhin also complains that he gave all the money to his mother Sonechka Marmeladova, “a girl of notorious behavior.” The women, together with Razumikhin, go to Raskolnikov.
- The young man feels better. He himself tells the story of the deceased Marmeladov and his daughter, and his mother shows him Luzhin’s letter.
Rodion is offended by this attitude of Pyotr Petrovich, but he advises his relatives to act according to their own understanding. Dunya admits her sympathy for Razumikhin and insists on his and his brother’s presence at the meeting with Luzhin.
- Sonya Marmeladova comes to Raskolnikov’s room to thank him for his help and invite him to her father’s funeral. Mother and Dunya meet a girl. Sonya looks pitiful and feels embarrassed.
Raskolnikov agrees to come and offers to take the girl home. Watching it all unknown man, who turns out to be her neighbor Svidrigailov. Raskolnikov returns home and, together with Razumikhin, goes to investigator Porfiry Petrovich.
His friends want to find out about the fate of Razumikhin’s silver watch, which was pawned by the murdered old woman. Raskolnikov, knowing full well where the clock is, again falls into nervous excitement, laughs loudly and behaves strangely.
- Friends find Zosimov at the investigator's place. He is embarrassed by something and looks at Raskolnikov in confusion. During the conversation, it turns out that Rodion is also among the suspects, since he was a client of the pawnbroker.
The investigator is trying to find out when Rodion last time visited the old woman's apartment. Razumikhin replies that he was with her three days ago and her friends are leaving. “Raskolnikov took a deep breath...”
- Returning home, the friends discuss the meeting with the investigator and his accusations against Rodion. Razumikhin is outraged. Raskolnikov understands that Porfiry is “not so stupid.” After parting, Razumikhin went to Duna’s hotel, and Rodion went home.
He decides to check whether he hid everything and whether there is anything left of the stolen things. Near the house he meets a stranger who suddenly shouts “Murderer!” in his face. and hides.
Raskolnikov goes up to the room, where he begins to reflect on what he has done and falls ill again. Waking up, he finds a man in the room who introduces himself to him as Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov.
Part 4
- Svidrigailov talks about the death of his wife, and that she bequeathed three thousand to Duna.
Arkady Ivanovich asks Raskolnikov to help him meet with his sister, since he wants to offer her his hand and compensation for the unrest caused. Raskolnikov refuses the request, and Svidrigailov leaves.
- Raskolnikov and Razumikhin go to a meeting at the hotel. Luzhin also arrives there. He is outraged that the women did not listen to his request, refuses to discuss the wedding in front of Rodion and reproaches Dunya for ingratitude.
The conversation also turns to Svidrigailov. Luzhin tells an ugly story in which a young girl died because of him. He calls Svidrigailov “the most depraved and lost in vices of all people of this kind.”
Afterwards, the conversation turns again to Duna, whom Luzhin forces to choose between herself and her brother. They quarrel and Luzhin leaves.
- After Luzhin leaves, everyone is in high spirits. Razumikhin is frankly happy and is already making plans for a happy life together with Dunya, especially since she now has funds.
Dunya doesn't mind. Rodion will forgive his friend to look after his mother and sister and goes to Sonechka.
- Sonya lives very poorly, but Rodion notices the “New Testament” on the table in her room. The girl and the boy talk about the future that awaits Sonya. Her self-sacrifice, meek disposition and faith in goodness amaze Raskolnikov so much that he bows at her feet.
The act confuses the girl, but Rodion explains that “I bowed to all human suffering.” Before leaving, Raskolnikov promises to talk about the murder of the old woman next time. Svidrigailov hears these words.
- In the morning, Raskolnikov heads to the police station and demands a meeting with Porfiry Petrovich - he wants to return his things, which were pledged to the old woman.
The investigator again tries to interrogate young man, which infuriates him. Raskolnikov demands that the persecution of him be stopped or evidence of his guilt be presented.
- A strange man comes into the office. This is the dyer Nikolai. It is clear that he is exhausted and intimidated and immediately admits to the murder of Alena Ivanovna and Lizaveta. Raskolnikov decides to go to the Marmeladovs' funeral.
Part 5
- Luzhin is angry with Rodion and blames him for disrupting the wedding. His pride is wounded, and he decides to take revenge on the young man at any cost.
Through his neighbor Lebezyatnikov, Luzhin meets Sonechka and offers her money - a chervonets. While his plan is unclear, it is clear that he is up to something vile.
- Katerina Ivanovna's wake was turbulent. The widow quarreled with the landlady over “wrong guests” and she demands that the Marmeladovs move out of the apartment. During the quarrel, Luzhin appears.
- Pyotr Petrovich declares that Sonechka stole a hundred rubles from him and his neighbor Lebezyatnikov will testify to this. The girl is embarrassed and shows the money, trying to explain that Luzhin himself gave her the money and not a hundred, but only ten rubles.
However, the girl is searched and a hundred dollar note is found in her pocket. A scandal breaks out. Lebezyatnikov assures that Luzhin himself slipped the bill to the girl, the widow cries, Luzhin is angry, the landlady demands the immediate vacation of the apartment.
Raskolnikov explains Luzhin’s action with a desire to quarrel with his mother and sister and, thereby, force Dunya to marry him.
- Raskolnikov is torn between the desire to open up to Sonya and the fear of punishment. In the end, he says that he knows the killer and that everything happened by accident.
The girl guesses everything, but promises never to leave Raskolnikov and, if necessary, even to follow him to hard labor. Sonya says that Rodion needs to “accept suffering and atone for himself with it” - that is, admit everything. At this time there is a knock on the door.
- This is Lebezyatnikov. He says that Katerina Ivanovna was refused help, she is on the verge nervous breakdown and is going to beg on the street with the children. Everyone runs out into the street, where they find the widow in an excited state.
She does not listen to anyone's persuasion, screams, runs and, in the end, falls with a throat bleed. Katerina Ivanovna is taken to Sonechka’s room, where she dies. Svidrigailov promises custody of the orphaned children, and admits to Rodion that he overheard his conversation with Sonya.
Part 6
- Raskolnikov understands that a catastrophe is approaching. His whole life passes in a fog. Katerina Ivanovna was buried, Svidrigailov kept his word and paid for everything. Razumikhin asks Rodion to explain himself about his relationship with his mother and sister, but he lives only with thoughts of his exposure.
- The investigator pays a visit to Raskolnikov. He directly states that he suspects the young man of murder, but gives him a chance to confess. It turns out that it was at the instigation of Porfiry Petrovich that the stranger shouted “Murderer!” in Raskolnikov’s face.
The investigator wanted to test the suspect's reaction. When leaving, Porfiry gives him two days to think.
- Raskolnikov meets with Svidrigailov in a tavern. The conversation turns to Svidrigailov’s late wife, Duna, and the fact that he already has another – a young girl, almost a teenager.
Arkady Ivanovich immediately boasts of his relationship with another girl, which causes bewilderment and disgust in Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov decides to follow Svidrigailov.
- Having caught up with Arkady, Raskolnikov finds out that he was listening at Sonechka’s door and knows who the killer is. Svidrigailov advises Rodion to run away and even offers him money for the journey. They break up. On the street, Svidrigailov meets Dunya and calls her over under the pretext of telling her something interesting.
Entering the apartment, Arkady directly tells Duna that her brother is a murderer, but he can save him in exchange for love and relationships. Avdotya does not believe Svidrigailov and tries to leave.
He intimidates the girl and locks the room. Dunya takes out a pistol and shoots the man. There is a misfire, Svidrigailov gives the girl the key, takes her revolver and leaves.
- Svidrigailov spent the whole night in taverns, and in the morning he showed up to Sonechka. He gives the girl three thousand rubles so that she can arrange her life and says that now Raskolnikov either has to die or go to hard labor.
Sonechka takes the money and asks Arkady not to talk about his suspicions. Svidrigailov goes to a hotel, drinks and falls into a semi-delirious state, where he sees a girl who committed suicide through his fault and the rest of the unfortunate people whom he corrupted.
Arkady wakes up, goes outside and shoots himself with Dunya’s pistol.
- Raskolnikov visits his sister and mother, asks for their forgiveness, confesses his love and says goodbye to them. Dunya agrees that he needs to confess to the murder and thereby “wash away the sin.”
However, Rodion does not believe that he committed a crime, since he acted fairly. Raskolnikov asks his sister not to leave her mother and be with Razumikhin and leaves.
- Sonya waits for Rodion all day, worrying that he might do something to himself. In the evening the young man comes to her. He asks for a pectoral cross and Sonechka puts her simple, rustic cross around his neck. She plans to accompany him on his journey.
However, Raskolnikov does not want this and goes alone. He goes to the crossroads, mixes with the crowd, falls to the ground, cries and kisses her, as Sonya advised him. After this, the young man goes to the police station and confesses to the double murder.
Epilogue
