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Summary Crime and Punishment

The main character of the novel is former student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, who left the university several months ago. He has practically no means of subsistence, and therefore is forced to live in a tiny room, wear shabby clothes and still owe money to his landlady. All these circumstances force Raskolnikov to turn to the old moneylender Alena Ivanovna for help and pledge the only valuable thing. But money is only a formal reason, since Raskolnikov’s main goal is preparation for the murder of this woman. On the way back from his future victim, he looks into a tavern, where he makes an acquaintance with former officials and bitter drunkard Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov... His new acquaintance openly talks about how poverty, illness and the husband’s addiction forced his wife, Katerina Ivanovna, to go to desperate measures - to send his daughter from his first wife, Sonya, to work on the panel.

Raskolnikov accompanies Marmeladov home. At the beginning of the next day, he receives a letter from his mother from the provinces, which tells about all the misfortunes and injustices that are happening to his younger sister Dunya, who lives in the house of the dishonest landowner Svidrigailov, who begins to harass her. Svidrigailov's wife finds out about her husband's attempted betrayal, but he places all the blame on Dunya. Through the efforts of their mother, they manage to restore the honest name of Rodion’s younger sister. After which the court councilor Luzhin wooes her, who is seduced, first of all, by Dunya’s plight, which gives him power over his bride. Naturally, mother thinks that Luzhin will provide Raskolnikov with financial assistance, thanks to which he will be able to complete his course at the university. Rodion thinks about the self-sacrifice that his sister and Sonya Marmeladova have to make, which again brings him back to thoughts of killing the old moneylender. In the process of his reflections, Raskolnikov seemingly understands that he is not capable of taking such a step, which makes him feel better. But unexpectedly he meets the moneylender’s sister, Lizaveta, who agrees to come to someone tomorrow on business. This means that the old woman will be alone tomorrow, and at this moment Raskolnikov feels that he does not have the strength to resist the planned murder and that everything has finally been decided.

The next day, Rodion comes to the old moneylender and kills her with an ax. Unfortunately for her, her meek and innocent sister Lizaveta unexpectedly returns to the apartment and also falls under the killer’s ax. Somehow he was lucky to escape unnoticed, and he leaves the stolen valuables in a random place.

Having returned home, he begins to expect with horror that the police will soon come for him.Unable to withstand the tension, Raskolnikov loses consciousness. Rodion woke up only on the fourth day - all this time he was nursed by the cook Nastasya and his friend from the university Razumikhin. Raskolnikov hears a conversation between his friend and a doctor, from which he learns that a simple painter Mikolka is suspected of the crime. In addition, those around him notice that the main character of the novel reacts very strangely to conversations about the murder he committed.

Raskolnikov is visited by Luzhin, who remains shocked by Rodion's poverty and living conditions. A serious conversation takes place between them, which ends in a quarrel, since Raskolnikov is unpleasant with his opponent’s theory that, first of all, you need to live for yourself. And the most offensive thing for the main character is that he feels similar to the despised Luzhin.

He goes for a walk around the city, and in his thoughts he almost comes to the point of confessing to the crime. But at that moment he notices a passerby who was hit by a carriage. It turns out that this is his new acquaintance - Marmeladov. The victim is transferred to his home, where the main character meets his wife, Katerina Ivanovna, and Sonya, who appears before Rodion in her outfit as a woman of easy virtue. Raskolnikov feels sorry for Marmeladov and his family and gives Katerina Ivanovna all his money that his mother sent him.

The positive attitude that he felt thanks to his good deed quickly passes and ends in a quarrel with Dunya, to whom he declares his complete rejection of her fiancé: “Either me or Luzhin!” - Rodion gives her an ultimatum. Dunya and his mother are calmed down by Razumikhin, who at first sight falls in love with Raskolnikov’s sister. Rodion again begins to feel his loneliness, but soon Sonya Marmeladova visits him, from whom he asks for her address.

Rodion, supposedly in order to find out what happened to the things pledged to the pawnbroker, decides to meet with investigator Porfiry Petrovich. But the main purpose of the meeting with the investigator is to find out what Porfiry knows about the case and whether he suspects Raskolnikov himself. The investigator recalls the protagonist’s article entitled “On Crime,” which talks about “two classes of people.” According to Raskolnikov’s theory, all people are divided into ordinary people (“trembling creatures”), whose destiny is to be obedient to the moral law, and “proper people” (“higher”), who, in order to create something new, have the right to transgress human norms, for example, they can kill an ordinary person. It turns out that the main character recognizes the right of “higher people” to violate biblical laws for the sake of their highest goals. Porfiry Petrovich understands that through this article there is a kind of self-disclosure of the killer, who decided to become a “superior man.” But the investigator does not have significant evidence of Rodion’s involvement in the crime, so he releases him, believing that his conscience should force Raskolnikov to confess.

Rodion begins to understand that he, who is so worried about just one murder, is not at all suitable for the role of a “superman”. The scale of personality is too small, since, for example, “a real ruler... smashes Toulon, carries out massacres in Paris, forgets the army in Egypt, spends half a million people on the Moscow campaign...”. “I only managed to kill. ...I’m an aesthetic louse, and nothing more...” thinks Raskolnikov.

Raskolnikova asks Svidrigailov for help, who wants to use Rodion to meet his sister, since Dunya simply does not want to communicate with him alone. Rodion refuses and says that he has heard a rumor that Svidrigailov killed his wife. To this he receives an answer that the cause of Marfa Petrovna’s death was apoplexy, and he “only hit her twice with a whip.” On the one hand, of course, Svidrigailov is disgusting to Rodion, but on the other hand, Raskolnikov likes his ability not to worry about the atrocities committed and at the same time enjoy life.

In the cheap hotel where Luzhin placed Dunya and her mother, the relationship between Luzhin and Raskolnikov is clarified. Rodion accuses his sister's future husband of slandering both himself and Sonya. He means Luzhin's letter, in which he says that Raskolnikov spent all the money from his mother on the services of a girl of easy virtue, that is, Sonya. Rodion's sister and mother take his side and order Luzhin to leave.

Raskolnikov, meanwhile, begins to feel his loneliness again, which forces him to come to Sonya. But, despite the fact that they are both people who transgressed the biblical commandments, they are distinguished by the motives of this “crime”. Sonya went to the panel for the sake of her loved ones, but Rodion thinks only of himself. Sonya believes in the mercy of God, believes that a miracle will happen in her life. And she reads to Raskolnikov about Christ’s resurrection of Lazarus from the Gospel.

Raskolnikov continues to be afraid of exposure and at the same time wants everything to finally be revealed. And this forces the main character to come to Porfiry Petrovich again. The investigator, with his florid speeches that even if the investigator knows who exactly the criminal is, he should not arrest him, since the criminal will definitely come himself, brings Rodion to a nervous attack. Driven to despair, Rodion practically confesses to the crime, but at this moment the painter Nikolai unexpectedly bursts in and confesses that it was he who killed the old woman. Raskolnikov goes home quietly.

The Marmeladovs are holding a wake for Semyon Zakharovich in their room. The owner of the apartment and Katerina Ivanovna have long been in a state of enmity, which during the wake develops into an open quarrel. The landlady orders Katerina Ivanovna to immediately move out of the room. At this moment, Luzhin appears at the wake and declares that Sonya stole a hundred-ruble banknote from him. Sonya is searched and, indeed, the bill ends up in her pocket. But, fortunately, among those present there is a person who saw Luzhin himself plant money in Sonya’s pocket. Rodion reveals to everyone the reason for Luzhin’s act: having slandered Raskolnikov and Sonya under Duna, he wanted to achieve revenge and prove to his bride that it was not in vain that he suspected Rodion of deception.

The action of the novel moves to Sonya's apartment, where Raskolnikov reveals his secret. Sonya, understanding how he is suffering, advises him to atone for his guilt with a confession and subsequent punishment. But Rodion does not agree with her and declares that he is ready to fight for himself.

Then the widow of Semyon Zakharovich and her children appear before the readers. Katerina Ivanovna walks around the city and makes the children sing and dance. The children are all in tears. After which her throat bleeds and she dies. Svidrigailov promises to take care of her funeral and the future fate of her children.

Porfiry Petrovich comes to Raskolnik, who tells him that the painter Nikolai is not guilty, and the real murderer is Rodion. “I have nothing against you yet,” says Porfiry Petrovich. But he wants Rodion to confess himself. ­

For Rodion, a living example of a carefree existence after a crime is the life of Svidrigailov. But their personal meeting in the tavern convinces Raskolnikov that even Svidrigailov considers his life empty and meaningless. The only chance for salvation could be for him the love of Dunya, but she responds with a decisive refusal. After which Svidrigailov has no choice but to shoot himself.

Raskolnikov, who is greatly tormented, but is not yet ready to repent, nevertheless decides to go and confess to the police, despite contempt for himself for his “cowardice.” He asks his sister to take care of his mother and says goodbye to Sonya. In the presence of people, he, as Sonya asked him, humbly kisses “... this dirty earth, with pleasure and happiness.” He makes an official confession to the police. ­

Rodion in Siberia in hard labor. The fate of his loved ones developed differently: his mother begins to go crazy and subsequently dies; sister became Razumikhin's wife; Sonya moves to Siberia and now lives next to him. For convicts from ordinary people, Rodion remains a stranger, but, on the contrary, they treat Sonya with respect and tenderness. He exhibits symptoms of mental illness, and therefore he ends up in the hospital, where he has a dream that humanity is being affected by a virus, which is why each person begins to consider his own thought to be the final and only true one. A war of everything against everyone begins in the world. People die, except for a select few.

Sonya falls ill and writes a note to Rodion that she will soon get better. When he reads it, Raskolnikov awakens to his endless love for Sonya. Rodion understands that humility, patience and love are his salvation. The novel ends with Rodion picking up the Gospel that Sonya left behind.

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Petersburg. Rodion Raskolnikov goes with a mortgage to the pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna, with whom his orphan sister Lizaveta lives. A former student plans the murder of an old woman, calculating all the details. Having received money for the mortgage, Raskolnikov meets the drunken official Marmeladov, who talks about his family - his wife, her three children from her first marriage and her daughter Sonya, who earns money to feed the children on the panel. Marmeladov himself steals the latter from his wife and daughter and drinks it on drink. Raskolnikov accompanies the drunkard home and quietly leaves a few coins for his household.

In a letter from his mother, Raskolnikov learns about the plight of his relatives. To help him get an education, they had to borrow money. Sister Dunya was forced to work for the Svidrigailov landowners, where she had to endure humiliation. Reflections about his sister’s imminent marriage to the landowner Luzhin, who is counting on the poor girl’s obedience, and about Sonya’s fate give rise in Raskolnikov’s head to the conviction of murdering the pawnbroker who dooms people to suffering. The desire to kill the old woman and hatred of the bloody massacre, which was born of a dream from a picture of the torture of a nag seen in childhood, tears Raskolnikov’s soul.

A former student kills a pawnbroker, and with her, her sister, who accidentally returned home. He unconsciously hides the stolen valuables. The crime turns into a serious illness for Raskolnikov. He learns the details of the murder from his former university friend Razumikhin and prepares to confess to the crime. On the street he sees Marmeladov crushed by a carriage. With his last money, Raskolnikov helps the unfortunate man and his family. Chasing away his mother and sister who came to him, he feels the need to get closer to the “fallen” Sonya. Raskolnikov's family is looked after by Razumikhin, who is in love with Dunya.

Rodion comes to the investigator for information about the pawned items. Porfiry Petrovich is talking about a student’s theory published in a newspaper. Having only suspicions, but no evidence, the investigator releases the young man, in the hope of his repentance and admission of guilt. Raskolnikov realizes that his theory is wrong and repents of the murder he committed. He becomes close to Sonya, who believes in mercy and Christian virtue.

In search of Dunya's love, Svidrigailov comes to St. Petersburg, where he meets Raskolnikov. Rodion dislikes his sister’s offender, but his ability to take life lightly, despite the vile deeds he has committed before, attracts the student.

Luzhin tries to discredit Rodion and Sonya, but his slander does not find support from Raskolnikov’s relatives. The expelled Luzhin does not give up the thought of dishonoring Rodion in front of his family.

Consumed by fear, Raskolnikov again goes to the investigator. He almost gives himself away, but learns that the painter Mikolka admitted guilt for the murder.

During Marmeladov’s wake, a conflict occurs, because of which the owner of the apartment refuses to allow Katerina Ivanovna and her children to live. Luzhin tries to accuse Sonya of stealing money, but among those present there is a witness to her innocence.

Rodion tells Sonya about his crime, who takes pity on him for his mental suffering. The investigator comes to Raskolnikov and tries to persuade him to admit guilt. Believing in his theory, but yielding to Sonya's requests, Raskolnikov repents in front of the people and admits to the murder. Sonya follows Raskolnikov into Siberian exile. In the prison hospital, Rodion has a terrible dream in which people exterminate each other. He understands that pride leads to death, and the love for Sonya that fills his heart opens the way to a new life for Raskolnikov.

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. He understands that a certain “percentage” follows exactly this path in life, but does not 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. There is a 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 make the best impression on Raskolnikov. 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.

A little about the novel. F.M. Dostoevsky finished the novel in 1866. The idea of ​​writing it came to the author in 1859 - at that time the writer was serving his sentence at hard labor in the Omsk fortress-prison. At first, the author intended to create a confessional novel, but in the process of composing his plan changed. Dostoevsky wrote to the editor of the magazine “Russian Messenger” (where the novel was published for the first time) that this novel became “a psychological report of one work.” “Crime and Punishment” belongs to the literary movement “realism”. The genre of the work is defined as a novel, because the images of the characters in the novel are equal and equal in rights, while the author is almost on an equal footing, next to the characters, but does not rise above them.

Part I

Chapter 1

Finally, having left Alena Ivanovna, the hero goes out into the street and is horrified by the thoughts of the planned crime, exclaiming:

“What horror could come into my head!”

He goes to the tavern.

Chapter 2

Raskolnikov takes Marmeladov home, where he meets Katerina Ivanovna, the wife of a drunkard. Rodion leaves, leaving his last money on the windowsill unnoticed by the apartment's inhabitants.

Chapter 3

Dunya was wooed by Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, who has a small capital and is 45 years old, much older than Dunya. Luzhin is in a hurry to get married, takes a poor girl so that she will be grateful to him all her life. Rodion's mother tells her son that she and Dunya will come to him soon.

Chapter 4

“Decide on something bold?”

Chapter 5

And again he sees an incredibly tragic dream about an old horse killed by men. He cries in his sleep. Having woken up, Raskolnikov goes to the market near Sennaya. There he hears how the merchant invites Lizaveta (the sister of the old pawnbroker) to visit him. Lizaveta agrees.

Raskolnikov realizes that he will come to the old woman to kill her, that “everything has been decided finally.”

Chapter 6

The next day, Rodion begins to prepare for the crime. He takes an ax from the janitor's room, hides it under his coat, and wraps a tablet similar in size to a cigarette case in paper. Raskolnikov is again going to go to the old woman-pawnbroker.

Chapter 7

He goes to wash the ax and hears that clients have come to the pawnbroker. Rodion froze in fear. The visitors went for the janitor to open the door for them. Raskolnikov runs out onto the stairs, notices a slightly open door on the lower floor and hides in an empty apartment.

Part 2

Chapter 1

Arriving there, Raskolnikov learns that the landlady is demanding rent from him through the police. Rodion writes a receipt and gives it to the warden. Leaving the station, the student hears two policemen discussing the murder of a pawnbroker.

What he heard shocked Raskolnikov so much that he fainted. The people who were at the police station at the time decide that the young man is sick and send the young man home. And in his soul he feels “endless solitude and alienation.”

Chapter 2

Rodion leaves his friend and returns to his apartment. On the way to the house, he almost falls under the wheels of a passing stroller. At home, the young man, in a delirious state, falls into severe oblivion, and in the morning he completely loses consciousness.

Chapter 3

Doctor Zosimov arrives.

Chapter 4

Rodion is confused and very worried. Then an unknown, decently dressed gentleman comes to him.

Chapter 5

Pyotr Petrovich tried to express to the student his opinion about young people, advocating the priority of personal interest over public interest.

“Yes, from your theory it ultimately follows that people can be cut! And do you take my beggar sister to rule over her?

“- Raskolnikov tells him.
They quarrel and the student kicks the guest out of the house. Then Rodion angrily drives away his friends Zosimov and Razumikhin.

Chapter 6

Rodion walks through the city, on the bridge he sees that some woman has thrown herself down from the bridge, committing suicide. The student refuses thoughts of suicide.

Then he comes to the pawnbroker's apartment. It's undergoing renovations. Raskolnikov decides to go to Razumikhin. Suddenly he sees a crowd gathered in the distance and goes there.

Chapter 7

In the apartment, the student sees Marmeladov’s wife. Katerina Ivanovna gets angry at the onlookers. Sonya comes in here. Her clothes look provocative and out of place here. Marmeladov, dying, asks Sonya and Katerina Ivanovna for forgiveness for everything and dies.

Raskolnikov leaves all his money to his family and leaves. The Marmeladovs' youngest daughter, Polya, catches up with him and asks for Rodion's address. He tells her where he lives and leaves. Rodion comes to Razumikhin, together with whom he returns to his closet. Approaching the house, the friends see light in the window of Rodion’s apartment. It turned out that his mother and sister had arrived and were waiting for Raskolnikov. They rush towards him, but the student loses consciousness.

Part 3

Chapter 1

Razumikhin accompanies the women to their new rented apartment. He likes Dunya more and more.

Chapter 2

Pulcheria Ivanovna tells Razumikhin that, according to Luzhin, her son allegedly became interested in some prostitute. Mother and sister go to Rodion.

Chapter 3

Dunya wants her brother to come in the evening and be present at their meeting with Pyotr Petrovich.

Chapter 4

Sonya goes home. A gentleman follows her, follows the girl all the way to her house, and even tries to talk to her. It turns out that the gentleman lives next door to Sonya.

Chapter 5

The investigator told the student. Then Porfiry begins to discuss with Rodion the theory that the student recently published in the newspaper.

The essence of the theory: all people are divided into extraordinary and simple. Extraordinary people are allowed much more; they can even commit a crime at the behest of their conscience if it helps the common good. Rodion explains:

“I only believe in my main idea. It consists precisely in the fact that people, according to the law of nature, are generally divided into two categories: into the lower (ordinary), that is, so to speak, into material that serves solely for the generation of their own kind, and into people proper, that is, those who have the gift or the talent to say a new word among oneself.”

“...the first category, that is, the material, generally speaking, people are by nature conservative, orderly, live in obedience and love to be obedient. In my opinion, they are obliged to be obedient, because this is their purpose, and there is absolutely nothing humiliating for them.”

Then he adds:

“The second category, everyone breaks the law, destroyers, or is inclined to do so, judging by their abilities. The crimes of these people, of course, are relative and varied; for the most part they demand, in very diverse statements, the destruction of the present in the name of the better. But if he needs, for his idea, to step over even a corpse, through blood, then within himself, in conscience, he can, in my opinion, give himself permission to step over blood - depending, however, on the idea and size her, mind you. It is only in this sense that I speak in my article about their right to commit a crime.”

“What if one of the ordinary people suddenly decides that he is a genius and begins to remove all obstacles?”

– asks Porfiry. “There are police and prisons for this,” Raskolnikov replies.

Porfiry Petrovich asks him a question:

“And would you dare to step over?”

"It may very well be"

Raskolnikov answers him.

Porfiry guesses that it was Rodion who killed the old woman and invites him to come to the police station. At the same time, Razumikhin notes in a conversation that a friend came to the old woman three days before the murder, but not on that day. Then the friends leave.

Chapter 6

In his dream, he tries again and again to kill the pawnbroker, who laughs in his face. Alena Ivanovna’s apartment is filled with some people who also reproach the student for murder.

Having difficulty waking up from a nightmare, Rodion sees yesterday’s stranger on the threshold of his room. This is Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, a landowner who was watching Sonya and recently tried to seduce Dunya.

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Chapter 1

And during the conversation, the guest suddenly touches on an “otherworldly” topic: he confidentially tells how the dead appeared to him several times in the form of ghosts. And he thinks about what eternity will be like in the next life:

“What if it’s just some smoky bathhouse with spiders.”

Chapter 2

Pyotr Petrovich tries to point out to the bride what a disastrous, difficult situation she and her family are in, and reproaches the girl. Dunya firmly answers that she cannot, will not choose: brother or groom.

Pyotr Petrovich mentions Svidrigailov. Dunya and the groom are quarreling. As a result, the girl breaks up with Luzhin and asks him to leave.

Chapter 3

Suddenly Rodion gets up and leaves; instead of saying goodbye, he asks his family not to try to see him. He says he will come himself if possible. Razumikhin thinks for the first time that his friend could be the murderer of the pawnbroker. He stays with Dunya and Pulcheria Ivanovna and takes upon himself all the worries about them.

Chapter 4

“You stepped over too. You also ruined your life, even your own - but it doesn’t matter! And your sin turned out to be in vain: you never saved anyone! Let's go together. The main thing is to break what is necessary forever, take on the suffering upon yourself, and thus gain freedom and power over all trembling creatures.”

"Let's go together. The main thing is to break what is necessary forever, take on the suffering upon yourself, and thus gain freedom and power over all trembling creatures,”

Then he bows at Sonya’s feet and says:

“I didn’t bow to you, I bowed to all human suffering.”

The girl thinks that Rodion has gone crazy.

The young man learns from the conversation that she was friends with Lizaveta, even the Gospel to Sonya was left as a keepsake from the murdered woman. Raskolnikov asks her to read about the resurrection of Lazarus, then, already leaving, promises to later tell her who killed Lizaveta.

Svidrigailov, who was staying in the apartment next to Sonya’s, listened to their entire conversation through a thin wall.

Chapter 5

However, the investigator avoids a specific answer, but hints that there is some kind of surprise for Rodion in the next room.

“It is better not to arrest another criminal immediately, but to keep him at large. Then he himself will not be able to withstand the uncertainty and will begin to swirl around me, like a butterfly around a candle, and fly straight into my mouth. If you arrest him, he will only strengthen himself and withdraw into himself.”

“And I know how you went to that apartment later! - he answers. - I have a surprise in the next room. Would you like to see?"

Chapter 6

Approaching the house, the young man again sees the stranger who recently called him a murderer. The stranger asks for forgiveness for accusing Rodion, but today he believes in the young man’s innocence. This tradesman turned out to be the “surprise” that Porfiry Petrovich was preparing for Raskolnikov.

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Chapter 1

Luzhin lays out the money on the table, supposedly wanting to count it, then asks his friend to call Sonya here. The landowner apologizes to the girl for not going to the wake for her father and gives her 10 rubles to help a family that has lost its breadwinner. Lebezyatnikov thought that his friend was up to something evil.

Chapter 2

The hostess began to reproach the widow for the fact that the poor woman did not invite her “decent” friends to the funeral, but invited “just anyone.”

In the midst of a quarrel, Luzhin comes to the Marmeladovs.

Chapter 3

Katerina Ivanovna assures everyone that her eldest daughter is not a thief, that she could not steal, and begins to turn out the girl’s dress pockets. Suddenly a hundred-ruble bill falls out of your pocket.

Luzhin calls Lebezyatnikov as a witness to the theft, who begins to understand what adventure his acquaintance has dragged him into. And Lebezyatnikov, in front of all the guests, declares that Luzhin himself put 100 rubles in the girl’s pocket.

Pyotr Petrovich is indignant and shouts that he will call the police. The owner Amalia Ivanovna kicks the Marmeladovs out of the house. Raskolnikov tries to explain to the guests what kind of meanness Luzhin is planning, and leaves after Sonya.

Chapter 4

“What have you done to yourself! - Sonya shouts. - There is no one more unhappy than you in the whole world now! But how could you, such as you, decide to do this?

Raskolnikov is confused in his explanations: first he explains that he “was going to help his sister and mother,” then that he “wanted to become Napoleon.” However, in the end, Rodion himself begins to understand the truth:

“I’m just proud, envious, angry, vindictive, I didn’t want to work. And I decided to find out: am I a trembling creature or do I have the right...”

“Stand at the crossroads,” says Sonya, “kiss the ground that you desecrated and tell everyone, out loud: “I killed!” Accept suffering and redeem yourself with it!”

Rodion refuses: “No, I’ll still fight!” The young man pushes away the cross the girl holds out to him and leaves.

Chapter 5

On one of the streets, running after one of the children, Katerina Ivanovna falls dead, bleeding from her throat. The woman is taken to Sonya, where the widow dies.

At this time, Dunya sees Svidrigailov, who tries to give the girl money, but she refuses it. Arkady Ivanovich wants to give the money to the Marmeladovs. And Raskolnikov advises his sister to take a closer look at Razumikhin.

Svidrigailov turns to Raskolnikov, promising to help Sonya and the children with money, and says:

“After all, Katerina Ivanovna was not a pest, like an old money-lender.”

And winks at the young man. Rodion is literally petrified by these words. And Arkady Ivanovich explains that he heard all of Rodion’s conversations with Sonya from behind the wall.

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Dunya tries to leave. However, he discovers that the door is locked. The girl grabs a revolver and, out of fear and despair, shoots at Svidrigailov, several times, but misses. Dunya throws the weapon on the floor, crying, and asks to let her go.

Arkady Ivanovich opens the door, the girl runs away. And Svidrigailov raises the revolver and hides it.

Chapter 5

He has nightmares at night. He sees a mouse running around the bed, then he dreams of a drowned girl whom he dishonored in his long past, then of a teenage girl whom he once destroyed.

Svidrigailov hurries to leave the hotel, and later, unable to withstand the pangs of conscience, commits suicide by shooting himself with a revolver.

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Epilogue

Chapter 1

Dunya and Razumikhin got married, they are going to go to Raskolnikov and Sonya when Rodion’s friend finishes his studies at the university, so that they can all live together in Siberia.

Chapter 2

Raskolnikov somehow became seriously ill and was hospitalized. His recovery was very difficult and difficult, and his mental healing was just as difficult and difficult.

One day Raskolnikov burst into tears, kneeling in front of Sonya. The girl cried in response, suddenly realizing that Rodion loved her. She herself loved him and could not live without him.

“They were resurrected by love, the heart of one contained endless sources of life for the heart of the other”

The events take place in St. Petersburg in the 60s of the 19th century. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a young man who previously studied at the university, is in an extremely cramped financial situation and in desperation pledges to the old pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna, whose murder he plans to commit in the near future for the purpose of robbery, the last valuable thing still remaining in his possession. That same evening, Rodion accidentally meets the former official Marmeladov in one of the taverns; this man is already hopelessly drunk, and his family drags out the most pitiful, beggarly existence.

Marmeladov talks about how his second wife Katerina Ivanovna, suffering from consumption, forced his daughter from his first marriage, a timid and meek girl Sonya, to earn a living for the whole family in the most shameful and humiliating way for a woman. Recently, the girl exists on the so-called “yellow ticket”, selling herself for the sake of her father, stepmother and her three children.

The next day, Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother, who reports that his beloved sister Dunya suffered a lot of grief and humiliation in the house of the selfish and depraved landowner Svidrigailov. However, now the girl’s undeservedly discredited honor has been completely restored, and Dunya marries a certain businessman named Luzhin, a man much older than her, but quite wealthy. The mother openly tells Rodion that the marriage is not for love, but she expects that Luzhin will not only provide for Dunya, but also help her brother graduate from university. The young man gloomily reflects on the difficult sacrifices that both Dunya and Sonya, unknown to him, make for the sake of their loved ones, and confirms his intention to deal with the pawnbroker, whom he considers a worthless, useless “louse” and believes that with the help of Alena Ivanovna’s solid accumulated funds he can will do a lot of good for people.

Raskolnikov carries out his decision; he kills with an ax not only the evil, stingy pawnbroker, but also her half-sister Lizaveta, an absolutely harmless, good-natured creature, who is also extremely naive; many consider this young woman simply weak-minded. The young man manages to escape unnoticed and hides the loot in a secluded place, without even realizing its value.

What Rodion did deeply shakes his entire being, he feels completely sick, moreover, he is not able to communicate even with his university friend Razumikhin, who is trying to help him, feeling complete alienation between himself and all other people. Wandering around the city in a terrible state of mind, the young man is already inclined to voluntarily confess his act to the police, but suddenly he notices a man crushed by a carriage; he recognizes him as his recent acquaintance Marmeladov. A feeling of compassion awakens in Rodion, he gives his last money to the dying man’s wife Katerina Ivanovna and his daughter Sonya, immediately feeling the kindness and meekness of the girl, although he sees her for the first time in an indecently bright outfit that matches her current occupation.

Helping the unfortunate family, Raskolnikov for a short time again feels that he belongs to the world of people, that he is the same person as everyone else, but soon returns to his previous state of mind. Having met his mother and sister at home, who came from the provinces, he is absolutely not happy with them, although he previously loved both of them very much, but now Rodion feels completely lost for their love. He is unable to withstand the presence of his mother and sister nearby, he behaves coldly and rudely towards them, and they leave his apartment, extremely upset and not understanding what happened to their son and brother. After this, Raskolnikov thinks that he should get closer to Sonya Marmeladova, because she is the same sinner as he is, she also stepped over God’s commandment.

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Razumikhin, having met Raskolnikov’s mother and sister, immediately falls in love with the charming Dunya and takes all the care of the women upon himself. Luzhin, who has already quarreled with Rodion, demands that the bride choose either her brother or him, the groom. At this time, Raskolnikov, wanting to divert suspicion from himself, voluntarily meets with investigator Porfiry Petrovich, who is leading the case of the murder of Alena Ivanovna. He recalls that not long ago an article by Rodion was published in the newspaper, where a young man confidently divides all people into “higher” and “lower”. At the same time, the majority, “trembling creatures,” as Raskolnikov defines them, must fulfill the laws established in society, while the upper caste of “the people themselves” has the right to violate any moral norms, even to shed the blood of others. A smart and insightful investigator guesses that it was Rodion who committed the murder, considering himself almost the new Napoleon, but he does not have any irrefutable evidence, and he decides to wait a little, hoping that Raskolnikov will still repent and admit his monstrous crime. act.

Rodion soon really becomes convinced that he was mistaken about himself; he was not at all created to be a formidable ruler who, without hesitation, is capable of sending millions of people to death, while he, Raskolnikov, is cruelly tormented because of one thing - the only murder. Soon the landowner Svidrigailov appears in St. Petersburg, having almost completely crippled the life of Rodion’s sister Duna, he expresses the opinion that he and Rodion are similar in many ways, and the young man still likes his ability to enjoy life from the heart, although he knows that Svidrigailov repeatedly violated laws.

Luzhin decisively explains to the Raskolnikov family, he is accused of slandering both Rodion and Sonya Marmeladova, who the young man allegedly gave for certain services the money collected by his mother with great difficulty for his education. But Dunya and Rodion’s mother are convinced that their son and brother did not commit such a base act, and Sonya is only a victim of tragic circumstances, and not a truly depraved woman.

Raskolnikov tries to communicate with Sonya, it seems to him that she is the same as him, but the young man is mistaken. The girl sacrificed and continues to sacrifice herself for the sake of others; she deeply believes in God and His mercy, never ceasing to love her loved ones. Sonya reads the Gospel texts to Rodion, she hopes that her hopeless life full of humiliation can still change, and his theory of “Napoleonic power” over the “human anthill” causes her unequivocal rejection.

The young man again looks at investigator Porfiry, and an abstract conversation about the psychology of criminals almost forces Rodion to immediately confess everything. But the painter Mikolka, who was arrested earlier, unexpectedly admits that it was he who killed Alena Ivanovna.

During the wake in the Marmeladovs' house, Luzhin tries to accuse Sonya of stealing a hundred rubles, but suddenly a witness appears who saw Luzhin himself quietly slip a piece of paper to the girl. Dunya's ex-fiancé is forced to leave in disgrace, and Rodion, finding himself with Sonya in her apartment, decides to admit that he hacked to death both the pawnbroker and her sister with an ax. The girl understands what mental anguish he is now experiencing, and begs him to confess, to atone for his sin by repentance and punishment in the form of hard labor. However, Raskolnikov is not yet ready to take such a step.

Katerina Ivanovna, Sonya's stepmother, unable to control herself due to despair and illness, quarrels with her landlady and ends up on the street with her three small children. The woman suddenly dies from a throat bleed, but Svidrigailov firmly promises to provide for the orphans and pay for the funeral. During a frank conversation with him, Raskolnikov becomes convinced of how empty and joyless this man’s life is.

Svidrigailov makes a last attempt to win Dunya’s favor, hoping that the love of such a pure and decent girl will bring at least some meaning to his existence, but Dunya categorically refuses any relationship with him. After this, Svidrigailov decides to shoot himself, and Raskolnikov, no longer able to withstand the fear of exposure, says goodbye to his loved ones and Sonya before making a confession.

Rodion officially surrenders to the authorities, he is sent to Siberia, to a prison for convicts. The mother, realizing what her son had done, soon dies from unbearable grief, Dunya becomes Razumikhin’s wife. Sonya, having followed Raskolnikov, settles nearby and regularly visits the young man, although he behaves coldly and indifferently towards her. Rodion’s comrades in misfortune, who come from the common people, do not hide their hostility towards him, since he is an “atheist,” but they have sincere sympathy for Sonya.

During his illness and stay in the prison hospital, a turning point occurs in Raskolnikov’s consciousness; he understands that the only way to again feel the fullness of life, joy and happiness will be sincere humility. With the help of Sonya, for whom he now feels boundless, all-encompassing love, and the Gospel, Rodion begins a new life, taking the path of spiritual and moral renewal.