Crime and Punishment - Part One - summary
All actions described in the work of F.M. Dostoevsky's work "Crime and Punishment" dates back to 1865. Rodion Raskolnikov is the main character of the psychological novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. He is a former law student who is completely crushed by poverty. Rodion Raskolnikov's closet is not an apartment, but a miniature locker. The young man is constantly troubled by painful and disturbing thoughts about everything. He begins to have thoughts and ideas about some dangerous and terrible matter. This thought has been tormenting his mind for a long month and a half. And the whole point of his plan lies in the cold-blooded murder of the old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov, in order to pay off all his debts as quickly as possible, goes to the pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna. He gives the lady a watch in exchange for money and assures her that he will soon also bring a cigarette case made of pure silver. The young man cannot understand how the terrible thought of murder could even come into his head. To ease his thoughts, he goes into a tavern.
Rodion Raskolnikov, during his stay in the tavern, meets Marmeladov, who is the titular adviser. The tipsy titular councilor told the young man about his family. He talks about his wife Katerina Ivanovna. Raskolnikov learns that Marmeladov’s wife, with three small children in her arms, married a titled adviser out of despair. Although the woman was a fairly smart and educated woman, she simply had nowhere to go. Marmeladov very often spent time in pubs, drinking away all his money. Once, the titled adviser even managed to enter the service, but he could not stand it and began to drink again. During his next binge, he even took the last money out of the house. Marmeladov's daughter's name was Sonya. She could not accept poverty, and went to work in order to somehow provide for her family. Raskolnikov understands that in his condition it will be difficult for Marmeladov to get home by himself and escorts his new acquaintance home. In the house of a new acquaintance, the young man sees a very poor room furnishings. He feels sorry for this family, and he leaves some change on their windowsill.
In the morning Rodion receives a letter. This letter turns out to be from his mother. The mother writes to her son that his sister Dunya was slandered by the Svidrigailovs. The girl worked in these gentlemen's house as a governess. The husband of the owner where Dunya works fell in love with her. When the mistress of the house, Marfa Petrovna, found out about this, she began to humiliate and insult Dunya in every possible way. Svidrigailov plucked up courage and admitted that the governess was not guilty of anything. Forty-five-year-old Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, who had small capital, began to woo the girl. After Pulcheria, Raskolnikova also informs her son that they will soon come to Rodion in St. Petersburg. The reason for their arrival was that Luzhin was in a hurry with the wedding. Pyotr Petrovich wanted to open a law office in the city as soon as possible. The letter from home really touched the heart of the main character of the novel. He ran outside to get some fresh air.
Rodion Raskolnikov does not want his sister to become the wife of Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin. He clearly understands that his relatives agreed to this marriage only in order to end poverty and help Rodion at least a penny. On the other hand, the hero understands that some poor student simply cannot compare with the rich and successful Luzhin. The terrible thought of killing the old pawnbroker again pops into his consciousness.
Out of despair, Rodion wants to go to his university friend Razumikhin and borrow money from him. However, having thought it over thoroughly, he abandons this idea. The young man, in despair, spends all his money on a piece of pie and a glass of vodka. After drinking alcohol, he falls asleep in the nearby bushes. He is having a very scary dream. In the dream, several men beat an old sick horse to death, and Rodion is very small and cannot help the poor animal in any way. The boy hugs and kisses the dead horse, and then rushes at the men with his fists. Waking up, Rodion Raskolnikov begins to think about murder again. However, he doubts that he will be able to decide on it. The young man goes to the market and near Sennaya Square the hero sees the old woman’s sister Lizaveta. During Lizaveta’s conversation with the merchants, Rodion learns that the next day at seven o’clock in the evening the pawnbroker will be at home absolutely alone. Rodion understands that there is no turning back, fate itself decided everything for him.
Raskolnikov constantly reflects on the injustice of life. He does not understand at all why an old woman who does not bring any benefit to society owns quite a decent fortune. He is convinced that the death of that insignificant creature like the old pawnbroker can save the lives of hundreds of other people in need of money. The young man spent the entire day in a state close in its characteristics to delirium. Rodion, armed with an ax that he found in the janitor's room, goes to the old pawnbroker.
Rodion comes to the old pawnbroker. Alena Ivanovna takes the cigarette case from Rodion and turns to face the window. At this time, the young man hits the old woman on the head with all his might with the butt of an ax. After the crime, Raskolnikov goes to the pawnbroker’s room. At this time, the old woman's sister, Lizaveta, unexpectedly returns to the pawnbroker. The hero did not expect such a turn of events. He is confused and scared. He has no choice but to kill the old woman’s sister. Rodion, having calmed down a little, goes to wash his hands and axe, then locks the door, which to his surprise was open. Suddenly, clients came to the pawnbroker. Raskolnikov waits for them to leave and he also leaves the apartment, hiding in an empty room located on the floor below.
Crime and Punishment - Part Two - Summary
Raskolnikov sleeps soundly until three o'clock in the afternoon. Then he wakes up abruptly, remembering that he did not hide the things he took from Alena Ivanovna. He frantically picks them over, trying to wash away the blood stains from them. The girl Nastasya gives Rodion a summons that was sent from the police office by the police officer himself. When Raskolnikov came to the station, he learned that the owner of the apartment where he lives, through law enforcement agencies, was demanding payment from him for housing. The warden takes a receipt from the young man with an obligation to pay off the debt in the near future. At the exit from the station, Rodion hears a dialogue between two policemen. Representatives of the authorities are talking about the murder of a pawnbroker. Raskolnikov, hearing this news, faints. All the people present at the station decide that Rodion is sick and send him home for treatment.
Raskolnikov is tormented by remorse; he is very afraid of a search in his apartment. And in the end, he decides to get rid of his victim's things. Rodion goes into town to throw away his things. However, he fails to do this, since the area is quite crowded. After some time, he nevertheless hid the things taken from the pawnbroker. The hero comes to Razumikhin, and the purpose of his visit is not clear even to him. Razumikhin considers his comrade Rodion Raskolnikov a sick person. On the way home, a young man almost falls under the wheels of a passing chariot. The woman who was sitting in this carriage mistakes Rodion for a beggar and gives him some money. Raskolnikov is outraged and throws the money into the river out of anger. Rodion remains delirious all night, and in the morning he loses consciousness.
Rodion came to his senses only a few days later. Next to him he finds his comrade Razumikhin and the girl Nastasya. Raskolnik was brought a transfer of funds that his mother made for him. Razumikhin also tells his friend that policeman Zametov came to see him more than once and was particularly curious about his things. Left alone in his room, Raskolnikov carefully examines his room and all his things. He is very worried that any traces of a crime could remain on his things. Razumikhin brings Rodion new, clean clothes.
Another friend of his, medical student Zosimov, comes to visit Raskolnikov. From the conversation of the guests about the murder of the old pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta, Rodion understands that many are suspected of her murder. Even the dyer Mikola is among the suspects.
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin comes to Raskolnikov’s apartment. He tells Rodion the good news. The news is that Luzhin has found housing for his fiancee and her mother. Pyotr Petrovich makes an unpleasant impression on Raskolnikov. Luzhin turns out to be a narcissistic person. The conversation of the young people again concerns the crime of the old pawnbroker. The hero of the novel learns with horror that Porfiry Petrovich is interrogating absolutely all of the old woman’s clients. Raskolnikov can no longer restrain his emotions and expresses everything he thinks about Luzhin right to his face. Rodion reproaches Luzhin for wanting to marry a girl from a poor family, so that all her life she would consider her husband her benefactor and obey him unquestioningly. Pyotr Petrovich is outraged. He assures Rodion that Pulcheria Alexandrovna distorted the meaning of his words. Rodion promises to lower his guest straight down the stairs.
In the tavern, Rodion Raskolnikov meets Zametov again. Raskolnikov tells his interlocutor what he would have done in the place of the murderer of the old pawnbroker. He clarifies, in every detail, how he would cover up the traces of the crime, where he would hide all the stolen things. Zametov is simply confident that Raskolnikov cannot be involved in this crime. While walking around the city, Rodion Raskolnikov approaches the bank of the Neva and thinks that he has no other choice but to commit suicide. Before his eyes, a woman throws herself into the river, but ordinary passers-by save her in time. The young man immediately abandons the idea of suicide. The hero, in a delirious state, goes to the house of the old pawnbroker he killed, where at this time they begin to make repairs. He begins a conversation with the workers about a crime that was committed recently, and they consider the person who committed this crime to be crazy. Rodion is going to go to Razumikhin’s party. However, hearing an incomprehensible noise nearby, he goes there.
The stroller was driving along the street and accidentally ran over Marmeladov, who was walking along the sidewalk. The victim was immediately carried home. His wife, Katerina Ivanovna, was in despair, she was angry and screamed at the crowd of gathered onlookers. Sonechka arrives, dressed in a flashy outfit. Rodion notices that she looks ridiculous among the squalid furnishings of the room. Marmeladov asks his daughter for forgiveness for all the torment that he brought to her and her mother, and dies. Raskolnikov feels sorry for this family. He gives them all his money so that they can bury Marmeladov. Rodion leaves. At the door, Katerina Ivanovna’s daughter Polechka catches up with him, and he gives her his address. Raskolnikov feels much better. He goes to a party with his friend. After the event, Razumikhin escorts Rodion home. Approaching his house, Raskolnikov sees light in the windows. Going up to his apartment, he sees his mother and sister. When he sees his loved ones, he faints.
Part three of Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment"
Rodion Raskolnikov, after fainting, quickly comes to his senses and asks his loved ones not to worry about him. The young man begins to argue with his sister about Luzhin. Rodion demands that Dunya provide assistance to Pyotr Petrovich. Razumikhin really likes his friend’s sister, and he is trying with all his might to prove to her that he and Luzhin are not a couple. Raskolnikov's relatives leave because Rodion wants to be alone.
In the morning, having thought carefully about his behavior yesterday, Razumikhin comes to Rodion’s mother and sister. He asks Dunya for forgiveness for the words about her fiancé, and apologizes with all his heart for his temper. Luzhin sends his fiancée and her mother a note in which the UN says he wants to visit them. However, Pyotr Petrovich asks that Raskolnikov not be in the house during his arrival.
Raskolnikov tells his loved ones about Marmeladov’s absurd death. From his mother, Rodion learns about the death of Svidrigailova. Relatives also tell Rodion about Pyotr Petrovich’s note. He, in turn, is ready to do as his loved ones want. Dunya insists that her brother must be present when her fiancé visits.
Sonya comes to Raskolnikov's house and invites him to the funeral of her father, Marmeladov. Rodion introduces her to her mother and sister. Although the girl’s reputation does not allow her to communicate with ladies on equal terms, Raskolnikov’s mother and sister behave appropriately with her. Dunya, leaving, swears to Marmeladova. Raskolnikov really wants to meet Porfiry Petrovich. He does all this because he wants to take away the things that he himself pawned from the old woman. Sonya begins to be pursued by some stranger. This man even talks to her.
Chapter V briefly
Rodion Raskolnikov, together with his comrade Razumikhin, goes to Porfiry Petrovich. Rodion makes fun of his friend's sympathy for Duna. While visiting Porfiry, friends saw Zametov. Rodion immediately wants to know if the investigator knows about his recent visit to the house of the old pawnbroker. During a conversation with the police, Raskolnikov realizes that he is suspected of murdering an old woman. Porfiry Petrovich, in his conversation with Rodion, reminds him of his article, which was recently published in a newspaper, entitled “Periodic Speech.” That article outlined Raskolnikov's theory. According to the theory, people by their essence are divided into ordinary people, who represent a certain material, and extraordinary people. Extraordinary people, if we rely on Raskolnikov’s theory, can allow their conscience to commit any crime in the name of the common good. Investigator Porfiry clarifies all the details of Rodion’s visit to the old woman. He asks about what exactly Raskolnikov saw in the apartment during his visit to the pawnbroker. Rodion is very afraid of making any mistake, and therefore noticeably hesitates to answer. During interrogation, Razumikhin tells the investigator that his friend was in the house three days before the murder of the old woman. He also clarifies that the dyers were working in the house on the day of the crime. Porfiry, having interviewed the young people, says goodbye to the students.
Raskolnikov approaches his house. Right outside his house, an unknown man catches up with him, calls him a murderer and immediately runs away. The hero begins to suffer from fever again. He has a terrible dream in which that passer-by catches up with him again. This passerby lures Rodion with all his might to the apartment of the late Alena Ivanovna. Raskolnikov, having come to the house of the old pawnbroker, again hits the old woman on the head with an ax, and she, in turn, begins to laugh. The young man wants to run, but people appear in the apartment around him. These people condemn Rodion for his actions. Raskolnikov wakes up from all this horror. Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov comes to visit him.
Crime and Punishment - part four of the novel in summary
Raskolnikov is not at all happy about such an unexpected visit from Svidrigailov. Svidrigailov at one time seriously damaged the reputation of Rodion’s sister. Arkady Ivanovich tells Rodion that he and he are very similar to each other, birds of a feather, so to speak. Svidrigailov asks Raskolnikov to arrange a meeting for him with Dunya. Svidrigailov’s wife left Dunya three thousand rubles, and he himself wants to give her ten thousand for all the troubles they caused through stupidity and carelessness. Rodion Raskolnikov flatly refuses to arrange this meeting.
In the evening, Raskolnikov, together with his comrade Razumikhin, come to Rodion’s relatives. Luzhin Pyotr Petrovich is outraged by the behavior of the ladies who did not heed his request. He really wanted to discuss his upcoming wedding, but he is not going to do this in the presence of Raskolnikov. Pyotr Petrovich reproaches Dunya for not understanding her happiness. Luzhin also reminds the girl of her family's plight. Dunya is at a loss; she simply cannot be torn between her fiancé and her brother. Luzhin and Dunya are quarreling. The girl, upset, asks the groom to leave.
Luzhin Pyotr Petrovich is completely satisfied with Dunya as his wife. That's why he hopes to fix everything soon. Rodion tells his sister about Svidrigailov’s visit to him and his request. Raskolnikov’s sister is simply sure that the man is planning something terrible and is very afraid of meeting him. Raskolnikov's relatives begin to talk about how to profitably spend Marfa Petrovna's money. Razumikhin invites the family to engage in such an activity as book publishing. Everyone eagerly begins to condemn Rodion’s idea. Raskolnikov, unexpectedly for everyone, gets up in the middle of the conversation and leaves his family’s house. At the same time, he tells his loved ones that it is better for them not to see each other for a while. Razumikhin is trying with all his might to calm the young man’s family. He assures them that Rodion has not yet fully recovered.
Rodion goes to visit Sonya Marmeladova. He says her sacrifice is in vain. The girl begins to make excuses in every possible way, citing the fact that she simply cannot leave her relatives, since they will die of hunger without her. Raskolnikov kneels before Marmeladova, saying that just as he now bows to her, he bows to all human suffering. During a conversation with Sonechka, Raskolnikov learns that she was friends with the late Lizaveta. On the girl’s table lay the Gospel, which was brought by the pawnbroker’s sister. Rodion asks Sonechka to read to him about the resurrection of Lazarus. Then Raskolnikov promises that tomorrow he will come to her again and tell the whole truth about who killed Lizaveta. Their entire conversation is clearly heard by Svidrigailov, who was in the next room all this time.
The next day, Rodion Raskolnikov goes to Porfiry Petrovich. He asks the Investigator to return all his things. Porfiry Petrovich must check the young man again. Raskolnikov cannot withstand such pressure from the investigator and asks to plead guilty or not guilty of the murder of the old pawnbroker. The investigator skillfully avoids answering. He informs Rodion that there is some kind of surprise in the next room.
The dyer Nikolai is brought into the investigator's room. Unexpectedly for everyone present in the department, he confesses to the murder of the old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov returns home. He was very surprised by this behavior of the dyer. On the threshold of his room, that mysterious man suddenly appears, who until recently, near his house, called Rodion a murderer. The man sincerely asks for forgiveness for his such harsh words. As it turned out, the man had heard stories about the murder in the apartment. It was this that Porfiry prepared as a so-called surprise for Rodion. Raskolnikov begins to feel much calmer.
Part five
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin believes that none other than Raskolnikov is to blame for his quarrel with Dunya. He is looking for at least some way to take revenge on the offender and invites Sonya Marmeladova to his place. A man asks the girl for forgiveness that he will not be able to come to her father’s wake. In order to make amends, he gives the girl ten rubles.
Katerina Ivanovna arranges a good wake for her husband. However, many do not come to them. Rodion Rassolnikov comes to Marmeladov's funeral. During this entire event, the widow quarrels with the owner of the apartment, Amalia Ivanovna. At the moment of their quarrel, Luzhin comes to the Marmeladovs’ house.
Pyotr Petrovich informs everyone that Sonya stole a certain amount of money from him. To confirm his words, he brings his neighbor Lebezyatnikov as a witness. Sonya is very surprised by this statement from Luzhin. Having recovered a little from the shock, she begins to deny the accusations and gives Luzhin his ten rubles. Katerina Ivanovna does not believe in her daughter’s guilt and begins to frantically empty her pockets. A hundred-ruble bill suddenly falls out of there. Lebezyatnikov admits that Luzhin himself slipped the money to the girl. Pyotr Petrovich is outraged, he begins to scream, promising to call the police. Katerina Ivanovna and her children are kicked out of the apartment.
Rodion Raskolnikov comes to Sonya and says that he personally knows the killer of the old pawnbroker. Everything becomes clear to the girl. She is ready to follow Raskolnikov to hard labor. However, she has a condition: he must atone for his sin. Rodion understands that his entire theory was a mistake and was not confirmed in reality.
Lebezyatnikov tells everyone that Katerina Ivanovna has gone crazy. The man assures everyone that the woman forced her children to beg, and they, in turn, simply ran away from her. The woman is taken to Sonechka Marmeladova, where she soon dies. Dunya meets with Svidrigailov, he gives her money, but she does not take it. Then the man decides to give them to the Marmeladovs. Raskolnikov advises his sister Dunya to turn her attention to his comrade Razumikhin.
Part six
After Katerina Ivanovna was buried. Razumikhin tells Rodion that Pulcheria Alexandrovna has fallen ill. Rodion is looking for a meeting with Svidrigailov. He wants to talk about his intentions regarding Dunya.
Porfiry Petrovich comes to Raskolnikov’s house. The man reports that he suspects the young man of murdering the old pawnbroker. The investigative officer advises Rodion to confess and gives him a couple of days to think about it. However, there is no evidence confirming Rodion’s guilt. And besides, the young man does not admit to the crime.
Dunya is going to a meeting with Svidrigailov. Arkady Ivanovich wants their entire conversation to be held in his apartment. He tells the girl that he overheard the conversation between Sonya and Raskolnikov. Svidrigailov promises to save Dunya’s brother in exchange for her love and the girl’s affection.
Dunya wants to leave Svidrigailov's house. However, she realizes that the door is locked. Out of fear and despair, she grabs a revolver and shoots Arkady Ivanovich several times. The girl misses and tearfully asks to let her go. Svidrigailov voluntarily gives the girl the key to the door. Dunya hurries to get out of Arkady Ivanovich’s house, throwing the revolver on the floor. Svidrigailov picks up the revolver from the floor.
Svidrigailov goes to taverns to forget himself. Then he comes to visit Sonya Marmeladova. Arkady Ivanovich tells the girl that he has placed the children in the best boarding house. Svidrigailov gives the girl a small amount of money. At night, Arkady Ivanovich has a dream in which a teenage girl comes to him, who in the distant past died because of him. He leaves the hotel in a hurry. And later he commits suicide with Dunya’s revolver.
Rodion Raskolnikov says goodbye to his mother and sister. He tells his sister Duna that he can no longer lie and is ready to confess to the murder of the old pawnbroker. He promises his family to start a new life. Rodion very much regrets that he was never able to cross the cherished threshold of his own theory, the threshold of his conscience.
Rodion Raskolnikov goes to Sonya Marmeladova's house. The girl, due to her piety, puts her pectoral cross on the young man. She gives parting words to Raskolnikov and advises him to kiss the ground at the crossroads, while saying out loud that he is the murderer. Rodion does everything as Sonya advised him. Then he goes to the police station to confess what he did. At the police station, he also learns that Svidrigailov committed suicide.
Epilogue
Raskolnikov is sentenced to eight years of hard labor for the crime he committed. Rodion has been serving his sentence for a year and a half now. His mother, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, dies suddenly. Sonechka goes to hard labor after her brother Raskolnikov. Dunya married Rodion's friend, Razumikhin. The young man comes up with a plan. This plan is to save up money and go to Siberia. In Siberia, he wants them all to start a new life together.
In prison, Rodion does not find a common language with the rest of the prisoners. He is tormented by his conscience for wasting his life so stupidly and mediocrely. Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov seems to Raskolnikov to be a man of strong spirit. He adheres to this point of view because Svidrigailov, unlike him, was able to commit suicide. All the prisoners loved Sonya Marmeladova very much. When meeting her, they took off their hats and bowed at their feet. While in exile, Rodion became very ill and even went to the hospital. His recovery was very difficult and rather slow. All this time, Raskolnikov has the Gospel under his pillow. One fine day, the young man, completely despairing, begins to cry and rushes to hug Sonya’s knees. The girl realizes that Rodion loves her and also begins to cry. It was love that could save their hearts. It was as if one heart was the source of life for another heart. They decided to wait and endure all the hardships that fate had in store for them. Sonya Marmeladova was happy, because she could no longer imagine her life without Rodion Raskolnikov.
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
Rodion Raskolnikov (the main character of the novel) is a poor student from St. Petersburg. He owes his landlady rent and is hungry because he hasn’t eaten for several days. And he decides to bring Alena Ivanovna, the pawnbroker, a “mortgage.” On the way to her, Raskolnikov is thinking about some action that he intends to carry out a little later. His visit to the old woman is just a “test”. Raskolnikov first pawns a silver watch to the pawnbroker, then promises to bring him a cigarette case as well. All this time, Rodion is thinking about how to kill the old woman.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
One of the visitors got into a conversation with Rodion Raskolnikov in the tavern. The drunkard Marmeladov began to tell the young man about his family, how poor they were, that his daughter Sonya Marmeladova became a prostitute to save the family.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
In the morning, Nastasya, the maid of the owner of the entire apartment building, hands Rodion Raskolnikov a letter that his mother, Pulcheria Raskolnikova, sent to the hero. She wrote that Dunya (Rodion’s sister) was slandered in the Svidrigailov family, for whom the girl served as a governess. Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova humiliated and insulted Dunya when she found out that her husband, Svidrigailov, had fallen in love with the girl.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
Raskolnikov does not want Dunya to marry Luzhin. Rodion understands that his sister is making this sacrifice for his sake. At the same time, Raskolnikov realizes that he, a poor student, cannot help either his sister or his mother. He has no right to forbid his sister to marry the wealthy Luzhin.Again Rodion begins to think about his theory “about the right of the strong”, thinks whether he should come to terms with his current situation or
“Decide on something bold?”
Chapter 5
Rodion decides to go to his university friend Razumikhin to borrow some money from his friend. But, having changed his mind, the hero buys himself a slice of pie and a glass of vodka with his last money. He was sick from drinking and eating. Rodion falls asleep in the bushes.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
Raskolnikov always thinks about how unfair life is. In the billiard room, he accidentally overhears a strange conversation between an officer and a student. These two also argue that such a nonentity as an old pawnbroker has no right to live. They say that it would be nice to kill her and give her money to the poor, and thereby save them.The next day, Rodion begins to prepare for the crime. He takes an ax from the janitor's room, hides it under his coat, and wraps a tablet similar in size to a cigarette case in paper. Raskolnikov is again going to go to the old woman-pawnbroker.
Chapter 7
Raskolnikov comes to the pawnbroker and gives her a cigarette case. Alena Ivanovna turns away from him to the window to get a better look at the mortgage. Rodion hits her on the head with the butt of an axe. The old woman falls and dies. At this time, the pawnbroker's sister returns. Raskolnikov is extremely frightened, and in confusion he kills Lizaveta.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
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Raskolnikov wakes up from a sound sleep. He examines the things taken from the pawnbroker, trying to wash them of blood in order to then hide them. Nastasya, who serves the mistress of the house, gives Rodion a summons to the police station.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 is tormented by remorse. He is afraid of being searched, so he wants to get rid of the old woman’s things. Raskolnikov goes to the city, after several unsuccessful attempts due to the large number of people on the streets, he still hides the stolen things. Then the student comes to his friend, without knowing why. Razumikhin also decides that his friend is very sick.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
Raskolnikov woke up only a few days later. Near him in the room he sees Razumikhin and Nastasya. Rodion was given some money that his mother had sent him. Razumikhin reports that policeman Zametov came to Raskolnikov, who was very interested in the young man’s things. Razumikhin gives his friend new clothes, bought with part of the money sent by his mother.Doctor Zosimov arrives.
Chapter 4
Zosimov, a medical student, is also a friend of Rodion. He and Razumikhin begin to discuss the murder of the old woman and her sister. Raskolnikov hears from the conversation that the dyer Mikola has been arrested. However, the police have no evidence yet.Rodion is confused and very worried. Then an unknown, decently dressed gentleman comes to him.
Chapter 5
The unknown person turns out to be Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, who reports that he has found housing for Rodion’s mother and sister. Raskolnikov did not like Luzhin very much.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
Arriving at the tavern, Raskolnikov sees Zametov there again. A student discusses the murder of an old woman with a policeman. Telling what he would do if he were the killer, Rodion almost admits to what he did. However, Zametov decides that the student is sick and does not believe that Raskolnikov killed the old woman.Rodion walks through the city, on the bridge he sees that some woman has 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
Coming closer, Raskolnikov sees that Marmeladov is lying on the sidewalk, having been run over by a passing stroller. Rodion helps carry the victim home.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 it was his mother and sister who had arrived and were waiting for Raskolnikov. They rush towards him, but the student loses consciousness.
Part 3
Chapter 1
Having woken up from fainting, Rodion asks his family and friend not to worry about him. Raskolnikov argues with his sister over Luzhin and demands that Dunya refuse to marry this master. Soon the mother and sister go to the rooms that Luzhin rented for them.Razumikhin accompanies the women to their new rented apartment. He likes Dunya more and more.
Chapter 2
Razumikhin visits Raskolnikov's sister and mother in the morning. He asks Dunya for forgiveness for unflattering words about her fiancé. Here they bring a note from Luzhin. In the note, he says that he will visit them soon and wants Rodion not to be there.Pulcheria Ivanovna tells Razumikhin that, according to Luzhin, her son allegedly became interested in some prostitute. Mother and sister go to Rodion.
Chapter 3
The student is already better. Raskolnikov informs his mother and sister about yesterday’s incident with Marmeladov, that he gave money to help Katerina Ivanovna. The mother talks about the death of Svidrigailova and about Luzhin’s note.Dunya wants her brother to come in the evening and be present at their meeting with Pyotr Petrovich.
Chapter 4
Sonya comes to Rodion. She asks him to attend Marmeladov's funeral. Raskolnikov introduces her to her sister and mother, who treated the girl with great sympathy. Pulcheria Ivanovna and her sister soon leave. Saying goodbye, Dunya bowed to Sonya, who was very embarrassed by this.Raskolnikov really wants to meet Porfiry Petrovich. Rodion expects to learn from him the details of the investigation into the murder of the pawnbroker.
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
Raskolnikov and Razumikhin come together to Porfiry Petrovich, whose guest was Zametov. The student wanted to know what the police knew, so he asked what needed to be done to claim his rights to the things he had pledged.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.”
And further:
“...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
Having said goodbye to Razumikhin, Raskolnikov approached his house. A stranger catches up with him, who throws just one word in Rodion’s face: “murderer” and leaves. The young man returns home in confusion and falls into a heavy sleep.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.
Part 4
Chapter 1
Raskolnikov is not at all happy about Svidrigailov’s sudden visit, especially since the landowner recently compromised Rodion’s sister. The hero finds Svidrigailov unpleasant.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.”
The young man wants to kick out the guest, but he tries to convince the student that he wants to give Duna the money left by Svidrigailova, and promises Rodion ten thousand rubles if Raskolnikov helps the landowner see the young man’s sister. Rodion is indignant and kicks out the guest.
Chapter 2
Raskolnikov, together with his friend Razumikhin, go to Bakaleev’s rooms in the evening to visit Rodion’s mother and sister. There they meet Luzhin, who is indignant that the women did not heed his request and called Raskolnikov.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
Raskolnikov tells his mother and sister about the visit and Svidrigailov’s proposal. Dunya is afraid and does not want to meet the landowner. However, Pulcheria Ivanovna and her daughter begin to dream about how and what they can use the 3,000 rubles given to them by Svidrigailova.Suddenly Rodion gets up and leaves; instead of saying goodbye, he asks his 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
Having left his family, Rodion comes to Sonya Marmeladova, in her wretched closet. There he says to the girl:“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.”
Sonya, at a loss, replies that her family will simply die without her help. Raskolnikov offers the girl:
"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
The next day, Raskolnikov comes to Porfiry Petrovich. He turns to the investigator and asks to return the things he left with the murdered old woman. Porfiry Petrovich starts a strange conversation with him, checking the young man. Rodion is nervous and demands that he be either recognized as a murderer or innocent.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.”
Raskolnikov shouts in hysterics that Porfiry is still lying.
“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
Nikolai, a dyer from the house where the pawnbroker lived, is brought into the office. Nikolai, shocking everyone present in the investigator’s office, suddenly confesses that it was he who killed Alena Ivanovna. Rodion is very surprised and goes home.Approaching the house, the young man again sees 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.
Part 5
Chapter 1
Luzhin considers Raskolnikov to be the cause of his quarrel with Dunya. He is thinking about how to take revenge on Dunya’s brother. Pyotr Petrovich settled with Lebezyatnikov, whom he knew. Lebezyatnikov lives in a neighboring apartment with the Marmeladovs.Luzhin lays out 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
Marmeladov's widow organized a very nice wake for her husband. However, very few guests came. Among those who came was Raskolnikov. Katerina Ivanovna began to quarrel with the mistress of the house, Amalia Ivanovna.The hostess began to reproach the widow for the fact that the poor woman did not invite her “decent” friends to the funeral, but invited “just anyone.”
In the midst of a quarrel, Luzhin comes to the Marmeladovs.
Chapter 3
The landowner sees a quarrel between women, Raskolnikov among the guests. Luzhin accuses Sonya of theft in front of everyone: she allegedly stole 100 rubles from him. The girl, at a loss, takes out 10 rubles, which Pyotr Petrovich himself recently gave her.Katerina Ivanovna assures everyone that her eldest daughter is not a thief, that she could not steal, 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
Rodion comes to the girl and tells her that he allegedly personally knows Lizaveta’s killer. Sonya realizes that Rodion killed. The girl asks: why did Raskolnikov commit such a sin, why did he go to kill, since he didn’t even appropriate the loot for himself.“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...”
Sonya takes pity on him and is ready to follow him to hard labor. Rodion tries to explain to her his theory about a superman, but begins to get confused in the explanations, realizing himself that his theory is worthless. “What should I do now!” he exclaims in despair. –
“Stand at the crossroads,” says Sonya, “kiss the 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
Lebezyatnikov unexpectedly comes to Sonya, who reports that her mother, Katerina Ivanovna, seems to have gone crazy, that she took young children into the street, forcing the children to beg. Sonya and Rodion go to look for her.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.
Part 6
Chapter 1
After the funeral of Katerina Ivanovna, Razumikhin comes to Rodion. He tells Raskolnikov that Dunya received some kind of note that greatly worried her, and Pulcheria Ivanovna fell ill. After his friend leaves, an investigator suddenly comes to Raskolnikov.Chapter 2
Porfiry Petrovich again talks for a long time with the young man, saying that he does not believe that the dyer is guilty, but he is sure that Rodion killed him. The investigator advises the student to confess to his crime, although there is no evidence of Raskolnikov’s guilt. “So who killed?” Rodion asks in fear. “Like who killed? - Porfiry answers. “Yes, you killed, sir,” then he gives two days to think about it and leaves.Chapter 3
At the tavern, Rodion meets Svidrigailov, who begins to talk about his adventures. The young man doesn’t like this at all; he winces at such dirty stories. However, Svidrigailov notes that Raskolnikov himself is no better - after all, he is a murderer.Chapter 4
Dunya comes to Arkady Ivanovich, who tells the girl that her brother killed Alena Ivanovna and Lizaveta, and promises Dunya to save Rodion if the girl becomes his mistress. She cannot agree to this.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
Arkady Ivanovich cannot forget Dunya. In despair, he wanders from tavern to tavern, then comes to Sonya, to whom he tells that he has placed the Marmeladov children in the best boarding house, then gives the girl some money and leaves.He has nightmares at night. He sees a mouse running around the bed, then he dreams of a drowned girl whom he dishonored in his long past, then 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.
Chapter 6
Raskolnikov confesses to his sister that it was he who killed Lizaveta and the old money-lender, and that he can no longer endure the pangs of conscience. He says goodbye to his mother and Dunya, swears to them that he will begin to live completely differently. Rodion is sad that he was unable to cross the threshold of humanity and his conscience torments him.Chapter 7
Raskolnikov comes to Sonya, allows her to put a cross on him, then, on the girl’s advice, feeling a sudden kind of liberation in himself, he goes to the crossroads, falls to his knees, kisses the ground and is about to say: “I am a murderer.” But the people gathered around began to mock him, thinking that he was drunk. And Rodion leaves from there, but comes to the police, wanting to confess to the murder. Here he hears someone talking about Svidrigailov's suicide.Chapter 8
The news of the death of Arkady Ivanovich shocks Rodion. Raskolnikov leaves the police, but on the street he sees Sonya, who is waving her hands in despair. The young man returns to the station and confesses to the murder.Epilogue
Chapter 1
At the trial, Raskolnikov does not try to justify himself, but the judges relent and give him eight years of hard labor. Sonya goes after Rodion. Pulcheria Ivanovna dies during the trial. Sonya writes to Duna and Razumikhin about how Rodion and they live in Siberia.Dunya and Razumikhin got married, they are going to go to Raskolnikov and Sonya when Rodion’s friend finishes his studies at the university, so that they can all live together in Siberia.
Chapter 2
The convicts did not accept Raskolnikov, avoided him, did not love him. And Rodion, tormented by pangs of conscience, thought that Svidrigailov turned out to be stronger in spirit than himself, since he was able to commit suicide. The prisoners respected Sonya and even fell in love with her. When they met a girl, they took off their hats in front of her and bowed to the ground.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”
A brief retelling of the events of the novel “Crime and Punishment” reflects the most significantly important events happening to the heroes of the work, and the main idea, the main idea of the novel: there is no crime without punishment. The novel itself, entirely in the original, will be even more interesting to the reader.
At the beginning of July, one poor young man (Rodion Raskolnikov) left his closet and headed to the K-nu bridge. He managed to avoid meeting the landlady, whose kitchen opened onto the stairs and whose door was constantly open. The young man was deeply indebted to the hostess and was afraid of meeting her.
It cannot be said that this young man was cowardly or downtrodden by poverty. For some time he had become so deeply involved in himself and secluded himself that he was afraid of any meeting, not just a meeting with his landlady. Despite his poverty, he has recently stopped taking care of daily affairs. This fear of meeting his hostess surprised him. After all, he has conceived such a thing, but he is afraid of trifles. As he descended, he wondered why people are usually most afraid only of a new step, a new word of their own.
It was terribly hot outside. The unbearable stench from the taverns, the crowd on the street and the abundance of drunks, despite it being a weekday, completed the color of the picture. The young man, as usual, fell into a kind of thoughtful oblivion and walked without noticing anything. For the second day he had eaten almost nothing and was therefore very weak. He was very poorly dressed. He walked not far, he even knew that it was only seven hundred and thirty steps. He went to make a trial of his enterprise, his excitement was growing.
Finally, the young man approached a huge house, in which there were many small apartments inhabited by poor working people. Having passed unnoticed by the janitors, the young man found himself on a dark and narrow staircase. He met soldier porters carrying furniture out of the apartment. This means that only the old woman’s apartment remained occupied on the floor. The young man noted this and called the old woman’s apartment. The bell rang faintly, but the visitor shuddered as his nerves weakened. The old woman opened the door only after she was sure that there were a lot of people on the stairs. Her name was Alena Ivanovna. The old woman lived with her half-sister Lizaveta, a downtrodden poor girl who meekly served the old woman.
Raskolnikov brought his father’s silver watch to the old woman as a pawn. The pawnbroker reminded him that the old mortgage had already expired, but she still took the watch. The young man carefully watched the old woman, trying to remember what and with what key she unlocked. Without arguing about the price of the mortgage, Raskolnikov took the money and left.
The feeling of endless disgust, which arose on the way to the old woman, became so strong that he was attacked by severe melancholy. He walked without noticing the road. I only came to my senses near the tavern. He had never been in a tavern before, but now he was so thirsty that he had to enter. Here his attention was immediately attracted by one visitor, a man over 50 years old, of heavy build, of average height. His face was swollen from constant drinking. He was dressed very poorly, and there was something respectable and official in his manner. This visitor himself spoke to Raskolnikov: “Marmeladov, titular councilor.” He told the story of his family. His wife, Katerina Ivanovna, had three children in her first marriage. He himself has a daughter, Sonya, from his first marriage. Katerina Ivanovna’s first husband was an infantry officer, then he became addicted to cards, was put on trial and died. Marmeladov himself was an official, but then he lost his job and gradually became an alcoholic. Now he has fallen so low that he even drank away his wife’s last stockings; his daughter Sonya has a yellow ticket, lives separately from them and helps with money. Even now Marmeladov was drinking away his daughter’s last money.
Raskolnikov accompanied Marmeladov home, because he turned out to be much weaker in his legs than in his words. Seeing the poverty in which this family lived, the hungry children, the sick and exhausted Katerina Ivanovna, Raskolnikov quietly put all the remaining money on their window.
The next day he got up late, but sleep did not give him strength. With a feeling of disgust, he looked around his wretched, dirty room. He seemed to have distanced himself from everyone, and even the face of the maid, who occasionally visited his room, caused bile and convulsions in him. Nastasya was partly pleased with the guest’s mood and almost stopped visiting and cleaning his house. Today it was she who woke up Raskolnikov, bringing her own tea that she had slept on. The hostess stopped sending food to Raskolnikov a long time ago.
“Why aren’t you doing anything now?” - Nastasya reproached Raskolnikova. He replied that he was doing difficult work - he was thinking, but in the lessons you could only earn copper money. “Would you like all the capital at once?” - Nastasya laughed. “Yes, all the capital,” he answered firmly.
Then Nastasya remembered that Raskolnikov had received a letter, and ran after it. The letter was from my mother. She reported that Raskolnikov’s sister, Dunya, had left Svidrigailov, where she served as a governess. At first, the family treated her well, but then the owner began to persuade her to have an affair, taking advantage of the fact that Dunya took a large advance (Dunya took this money in order to send it to her brother). Dunya tried to reason with the owner, but one day his wife, Marfa Petrovna, heard their conversation, misunderstood everything and blamed Dunya for this story. The girl was immediately taken to her mother, and Marfa Petrovna talked about this in the city for a whole month. Mr. Svidrigailov, apparently coming to his senses, managed to convince his wife of the girl’s innocence by showing her letter to him. In it, she reminded him that he was the father of the family and he was ashamed to torture a defenseless girl. Dunya's innocence was confirmed by the servants. The ardent Marfa Petrovna repented, asked Dunya for forgiveness and again went around all the houses in the city, showing Dunya the letter and assuring everyone that she was a wonderful girl. Marfa Petrovna even matched Duna with a groom - Luzhin Pyotr Petrovich, a court councilor and her distant relative.
Despite his mother’s efforts to create a good impression of Luzhin, it was immediately clear that Pyotr Petrovich was stingy and rather limited. “It seems to be honest”, “somewhat vain”, “it seems to be kind” - these and other clauses in the mother’s letter immediately told Raskolnikov that his sister had decided to sacrifice herself for the sake of her brother’s future well-being. It followed from the letter that the mother and sister would soon come to St. Petersburg to visit Luzhin, who had left here earlier.
Reading the letter, Raskolnikov cried. He immediately decided that this marriage would not happen. But then he seemed to wake up. What can he do? After all, money is needed now, and not in ten years. He realized that he needed to decide on something.
In thought, Raskolnikov rushed about the streets of St. Petersburg. Suddenly his attention was attracted by a young girl walking in front of him, waving her arms. Taking a closer look, Raskolnikov realized that the girl was drunk, violated and kicked out into the street. And to the side, about fifteen paces behind the girl, was a gentleman who was clearly also not averse to taking advantage of her condition. Raskolnikov had a row with this fat dandy, and then a policeman appeared. Taking him aside, Raskolnikov explained the situation to the policeman and gave him money to look after the girl. He walked on, pondering the future fate of this unfortunate woman. It is clear that she will live eighteen to nineteen years. But no one cares. Society reassures itself that a certain percentage of people must go somewhere every year to refresh the rest.
Raskolnikov remembered that he was going to see Razumikhin, his university friend. He was a kind, sociable and cheerful guy. He was very intelligent. He could drink indefinitely, but he could not drink. No failures embarrassed him and no circumstances could ever weigh him down. Now he was forced to leave the university because of money, but tried his best to improve his circumstances in order to continue his studies.
Further, in part 1 of the novel “Crime and Punishment” by Dostoevsky, it is said that Rodion had a terrible dream. He, seven years old, walks with his father in his hometown. On the outskirts of the town they pass by a tavern that always frightened him - they were shouting, laughing, fighting, and there were scary, drunken faces all around. It’s like there’s a party in the tavern, a crowd of all sorts of rabble. Near the tavern there is a cart harnessed to an ordinary small Savras peasant mare. A drunk man comes out of a tavern and calls everyone to get into the cart, boasting that his mare will take everyone. The people laugh, but the man stands his ground. Everyone gets into the cart. The nag barely moves the cart from its place, and the man mercilessly beats it with a whip to make it move faster. The boy feels sorry for the mare, the father wants to take the child away, but he breaks free and runs to the filly. “Slap me to death!” - the man shouts in a drunken frenzy. Some stand up for the horse, but the man shouts: “My goodness! I do what I want! Slash me in the eyes!” The boy runs near the horse and sees how it is hit in the eyes. His heart rises, tears flow. So the poor horse was beaten to death. The boy throws his fists at Mikolka, the horse's owner. His father takes him away, saying that it is none of their business. Rodion woke up sweating. He thought that he would not dare to do what he had in mind. It was as if an abscess had broken out in his heart. He was free from these spells and obsessions. He went home. On the way, I heard a conversation between Lizaveta, the younger sister of the old pawnbroker, from which it became clear that tomorrow at 7 o’clock Lizaveta would not be at home and, therefore, the old woman would be completely alone in her apartment. Rodion suddenly felt that he was sentenced to death, that everything was finally decided.
Then he recalled how, at his first meeting with the old woman, he felt an insurmountable disgust for her. Taking “two tickets” from her for the ring, he went into the tavern. He heard a conversation between an officer and a student at a table nearby. The student told the officer about the old woman’s greed and stinginess, about the hard life of the meek and unrequited Lizaveta, whom many people like, despite her squalor. The student, first jokingly, and then more seriously, began to say that it was not a sin to kill such an evil old woman, especially since she bequeathed her money to the monastery. This tavern conversation made a strong impression on Raskolnikov.
Raskolnikov returned home and went to bed. Nastasya barely woke him up in the morning. He sent the servants away. I ate a little. Hearing the clock strike, it was as if he woke up and sewed a loop from the inside to the sleeve of his summer coat. It was an ax noose. Having finished with this, he pulled out the “pledge” he had prepared long ago - a wooden tablet the size of a cigarette case and a thin iron strip for weight. He wrapped all this in paper and tied it tightly so that the old woman would fiddle with the knot. Then he heard that it was already seven o'clock and rushed to the door. He intended to take the ax from the owner's kitchen, but Nastasya was there. Mechanically going downstairs, he stopped in thought in front of the gate. “What a lost opportunity!” - he thought with annoyance. Suddenly he shuddered. Something flashed from the janitor's closet. He tiptoed in and saw an ax, which he immediately fitted into the prepared loop.
Rising to the old woman’s apartment, Raskolnikov noticed that painters were working on the second floor, but they did not notice him. The apartment on the third floor was also apparently empty. The old woman did not answer the first call. He rang again louder and realized from a barely audible rustle that the old woman was standing in front of the door and listening, just like him. Raskolnikov rang the third time, and the old woman opened the door.
He walked straight at her, the old woman jumped back in fear. In response to alarming questions, he handed her the “mortgage.” She hesitated a little. Feeling that he was losing his composure, Raskolnikov told the old woman that he could take the mortgage to another place. The old woman began to untie the rope on the “pledge” and turned to the window towards the light. Raskolnikov released the ax, but did not yet pull it out from under his cloak. His hands were terribly weak and increasingly stiff. The knot did not unravel, and the old woman moved in his direction with annoyance. There was no more time to lose. Raskolnikov pulled out an ax, raised it with both hands and almost mechanically brought the butt down on his head. But as soon as he lowered the ax, strength was born within him.
The old woman screamed weakly and sank to the floor, managing to raise her hands to her head. He hit her several more times. Then Raskolnikov bent down to the old woman’s face - she was dead.
Raskolnikov put the ax down and reached into the old woman’s pocket, from which she had pulled out the keys the last time. He was completely sane, but his hands were still shaking. Then he remembered that he was attentive and careful, trying not to get dirty. Taking out the keys, he went into the bedroom. Approaching the chest of drawers, he began to pick up the key. The jingling of keys caused a spasm, he wanted to drop everything and leave. But it only lasted for a moment. Suddenly the thought occurred to him that the old woman might be alive and had woken up. He returned to the body, swung the ax, but did not lower it, because it was already clear that the old woman was dead. He saw that a lot of blood had flowed. Examining the wound, Raskolnikov bent over the body and noticed a cord on the neck. He carefully cut it with an ax, trying not to touch the body. Taking off the cord, he saw that there were two crosses on it, cypress and copper, an enamel icon and a small tightly stuffed wallet. Raskolnikov put the wallet in his pocket and threw the crosses on the old woman’s chest. Grabbing an ax, he went back to the bedroom.
Raskolnikov was in a hurry. He couldn't find the keys. Then he realized that the large key was apparently not from the chest of drawers, but from the box that the old woman kept under the bed. And so it turned out. Opening the bag, he saw that it was filled with things. Seeing the red set, Raskolnikov began to wipe his hands on it. As soon as he moved his things, a gold watch slid out from under his fur coat. It turned out that gold items were hidden between the rags, some were in cases, some were wrapped in newspaper. Raskolnikov stuffed all his pockets with these parcels. But I didn't have time to collect much...
In the room where the old woman lay, he heard footsteps. Raskolnikov froze. Everyone was quiet, and he decided that he had imagined it. Suddenly a soft scream was clearly heard. There was silence again. He sat frozen near the chest, but suddenly grabbed an ax and ran out of the bedroom. Lizaveta stood in the middle of the room. Seeing Raskolnikov, she trembled all over, raised her hand and slowly began to back away from him, looking intently into his eyes. He rushed at Lizaveta with an ax. Unhappy and downtrodden Lizaveta did not even raise her hand to defend herself. She collapsed.
Fear increasingly gripped Raskolnikov, especially after this second, unplanned murder. He wanted to get away from here as quickly as possible. If he could now reason and understand all the difficulties of his situation, then he would give up everything and go to declare himself, and not even out of fear, but out of disgust for what was done. But a kind of absent-mindedness took possession of him. He paid attention to the little things, forgetting about the main thing. Walking into the kitchen, Raskolnikov saw a bucket of water there and began to wash the blood from his hands and the ax. Then he carefully dried everything with laundry, which was drying right there on the line. Having examined his dress and wiped his blood-stained boots, he stood thoughtfully in the middle of the room. He was tormented by the thought that he was going crazy, doing something wrong and would not be able to protect himself. “We must run,” he thought and rushed into the hallway. Here he saw with horror that the door had been open all this time. He rushed to the door and locked it, but immediately thought that he needed to run. Opening the door, he began to listen. Somewhere far away two voices were arguing. Finally, everything became quiet. He was about to go out, but then someone began to descend from above. He waited it out. I had already stepped onto the stairs, but someone began to climb up from below. For some reason, Raskolnikov immediately realized that it was here. Raskolnikov seemed petrified and rooted to the spot. Only when the guest was already on the fourth floor did he quickly slip into the apartment and close the door to the vestibule. Instinct helped him.
The guest walked to the door, caught his breath and rang the bell. The stranger waited a bit for an answer, then he called again and began impatiently tugging at the door handle. “Alena Ivanovna, old witch! Lizaveta Ivanovna, incredible beauty! Open!” It was clear that this man belonged in this house. At this time someone else came to the door. “Is there really no one?” - the person who approached asked cheerfully. “Hello, Koch!” The young man came to borrow money from the old woman, and Koch arranged a meeting with the old woman in advance. They began to discuss where the old woman, who always complained about her sore legs, could have gone, and then the young man noticed that the door was closed with a hook, that is, from the inside. The visitors realized that something was wrong here. The young man left Koch at the door and ran to get the janitor.
Raskolnikov stood outside the door, clutching an ax. Time passed, Koch tried the door again, then, abandoning his post, ran quickly downstairs. The steps died down, and Raskolnikov left the apartment. He had already gone down three flights of stairs when a noise was heard from the floor below. The two ran downstairs screaming into the yard. And then he heard several people going upstairs. In complete despair, Raskolnikov went to meet them. There was only one flight of space between them, and then Raskolnikov saw the open door of an empty apartment, which was being renovated. There was no one in the apartment; apparently, workers had recently run out screaming. Raskolnikov slipped through the open door and hid. A group of people went upstairs, and he, after waiting a little, ran downstairs. There was no one in the yard either. He left the yard, realizing that those people in the apartment had probably already realized that he was not far away, but he did not dare to increase his pace, and the excitement he had experienced weakened him. Sweat poured off him.
Raskolnikov came home not fully conscious. Just as he was climbing the stairs, he remembered the ax and went back to put it back in the janitor's room. Everything went well, there was no one there. Arriving at his place, he threw himself on the sofa and fell into oblivion. This is how part 1 of the novel “Crime and Punishment” ends.
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
PART 1
“At the beginning of July, in an extremely hot time, in the evening, one young man came out of his closet, which he had rented from tenants in the S-th lane, onto the street and slowly, as if in indecision, went to the K-n bridge.”
He avoids meeting with his landlady because he has a large debt. “It’s not that he’s so cowardly and downtrodden... but for some time he was in an irritable and tense state, similar to hypochondria... He was crushed by poverty.” A young man is thinking about some task he has planned (“Am I capable of this?”). “He was remarkably good-looking, with beautiful dark eyes, dark-haired, taller than average, thin and slender,” but he was so poorly dressed that another person would be ashamed to go out into the street in such rags. He’s going to “do a test run for his enterprise,” and that’s why he’s worried. He approaches a house that “stood entirely in small apartments and was inhabited by all sorts of industrialists.” As he climbs the stairs, he experiences fear and thinks about how he would feel “if he really somehow happened to get to the point.”
He calls and is answered by “a tiny, dry old woman, about sixty years old, with sharp and angry eyes, a small pointed nose and bare hair. Her blond, slightly gray hair was greased with oil. Around her thin and long neck, similar to a chicken leg, there was some kind of flannel rag wrapped around her, and on her shoulders, despite the heat, a disheveled and yellowed fur coat was hanging. The young man reminds him that he is Raskolnikov, a student who came a month earlier. He enters a room furnished with old furniture, but clean, says that he has brought a mortgage, and shows an old flat silver watch, promises to bring another little thing one of these days, takes the money and leaves.
Raskolnikov torments himself with thoughts that what he has planned is “dirty, dirty, disgusting.” In the tavern he drinks beer, and his doubts dissipate.
Raskolnikov usually avoided society, but in a tavern he talks with a man “over fifty years old, of average height and heavy build, with gray hair and a large bald spot, with a yellow, even greenish face swollen from constant drunkenness and with swollen eyelids, due to which Tiny eyes were shining.” It “had both sense and intelligence.” He introduces himself to Raskolnikov like this: “I am a titular adviser, Marmeladov.” He responds by saying that he is studying. Marmeladov tells him that “poverty is not a vice, it is the truth”: “I know that drunkenness is not a virtue, and this is even more so.
But poverty, dear sir, poverty is a vice. In poverty you still retain your nobility of innate feelings, but in poverty no one ever does. For poverty they are not even kicked out with a stick, but swept out of human company with a broom, so that it would be all the more offensive; and rightly so, for in poverty I am the first to be ready to insult myself.” He talks about his wife, whose name is Katerina Ivanovna. She is “a lady, although generous, but unfair.” She ran away with her first husband, who was an officer, without receiving parental blessing. Her husband beat her and loved to play cards. She gave birth to three children. When her husband died, Katerina Ivanovna, out of despair, remarried Marmeladov.
She is constantly at work, but “with a weak chest and inclined toward consumption.” Marmeladov was an official, but then lost his position. He was also married and has a daughter, Sonya. In order to somehow support herself and her family, Sonya was forced to go to the panel. She lives in the apartment of the tailor Kapernaumov, whose family is “tongue-tied.” Marmeladov stole the key to the chest from his wife and took the money, with which he drank for the sixth day in a row. He visited Sonya, “he went to ask for a hangover,” and she gave him thirty kopecks, “the last, all that was.” Rodion Raskolnikov takes him home, where he meets Katerina Ivanovna. She was “a terribly thin woman, thin, rather tall and slender, with beautiful dark brown hair...
Her eyes shone as if in a fever, but her gaze was sharp and motionless, and this consumptive and agitated face made a painful impression.” Her children were in the room: a girl of about six was sitting and sleeping on the floor, a boy was crying in the corner, and a thin girl of about nine was comforting him. There is a scandal over the money that Marmeladov drank away. As he leaves, Raskolnikov takes from his pocket “how much copper money he got from the ruble exchanged in the tavern,” and leaves it on the window. On the way, Raskolnikov thinks: “Oh, Sonya! What a well, however, they managed to dig! and use it!”
In the morning, Raskolnikov examines his closet “with hatred.” “It was a tiny cell, about six paces long, which had the most pitiful appearance with its yellow, dusty wallpaper falling off the wall everywhere, and so low that even a slightly tall person felt terrified in it, and everything seemed to be... you'll hit your head on the ceiling. The furniture matched the space.” The hostess has already “stopped giving him food for two weeks.” The cook Nastasya brings tea and says that the hostess wants to report him to the police. The girl also brings a letter from her mother. Raskolnikov is reading. His mother asks him for forgiveness for not being able to send money.
He learns that his sister, Dunya, who worked as a governess for the Svidrigailovs, has been at home for a month and a half. As it turned out, Svidrigailov, who “has long had a passion for Duna,” began to persuade the girl to have a love affair. This conversation was accidentally overheard by Svidrigailov’s wife, Marfa Petrovna, who blamed Dunya for the incident and, driving her out, spread the gossip throughout the district. For this reason, acquaintances preferred not to have any relations with the Raskolnikovs. However, Svidrigailov “came to his senses and repented” and “provided Marfa Petrovna with complete and obvious evidence of Dunya’s innocence.”
Marfa Petrovna informed her friends about this, and immediately the attitude towards the Raskolnikovs changed. This story contributed to the fact that Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin (“he is a businesslike and busy man and is in a hurry to St. Petersburg”) wooed Duna, and “she is a firm, prudent, patient and generous girl, although with an ardent heart.” There is no love between them, but Dunya “will set herself the task of making her husband’s happiness as a duty.” Luzhin wanted to marry an honest girl who had no dowry, “who had already experienced misfortune; because, as he explained, a husband should not owe anything to his wife, but it is much better if the wife considers her husband to be her benefactor.”
He is going to open a public law office in St. Petersburg. The mother hopes that in the future Luzhin will be able to be useful to Rodion, and is going to come to St. Petersburg, where Luzhin will soon marry his sister. He promises to send him thirty-five rubles.
Raskolnikov read the letter and cried. Then he lay down, but his thoughts did not give him rest. He “grabbed his hat, went out” and headed towards Vasilyevsky Island through V-Prospekt. Passers-by mistook him for a drunk.
Raskolnikov realizes that his sister, in order to help him, her brother, is selling herself. He intends to prevent this marriage and is angry with Luzhin. Reasoning with himself, going over each line of the letter, Raskolnikov notes: “Luzhin’s cleanliness is the same as Sonechka’s cleanliness, and maybe even worse, nastier, meaner, because you, Dunechka, still rely on excess comfort, and there it’s simply a matter of starvation!” He cannot accept his sister's sacrifice. Raskolnikov torments himself for a long time with questions that “were not new, not sudden, but old, painful, long-standing.” He wants to sit down and is looking for a bench, but then suddenly he sees a drunken teenage girl on the boulevard, who, apparently, got drunk, was dishonored and kicked out.
She falls onto the bench. “Before him was an extremely young face, about sixteen years old, maybe even only fifteen—small, blond, pretty, but all flushed and as if swollen.” A gentleman has already been found who is trying on the girl, but Raskolnikov interferes with him. “This gentleman was about thirty years old, thick-set, fat, bloody, with pink lips and a mustache, and very smartly dressed.” Raskolnikov is angry and therefore shouts to him: “Svidrigailov, get out!” - and attacks him with fists. The policeman intervenes in the fight, listens to Raskolnikov, and then, having received money from Raskolnikov, takes the girl home in a cab. Rodion Raskolnikov, discussing what awaits this girl in the future, comes to the understanding that her fate awaits many.
He heads to his friend Razumikhin, who “was one of his former university comrades.” Raskolnikov studied intensely, did not communicate with anyone and did not take part in any events, he “seemed to be hiding something to himself.” Razumikhin, “tall, thin, always poorly shaven, black-haired,” “was an unusually cheerful and sociable guy, kind to the point of simplicity. However, underneath this simplicity there was hidden depth and dignity.” Everyone loved him. He did not attach importance to life's difficulties. “He was very poor and decidedly, alone, supported himself, earning money by doing some work.” It happened that he did not heat his room in the winter and claimed that he slept better in the cold. He was now temporarily not studying, but was in a hurry to improve his affairs in order to continue his studies. About two months ago, the friends saw each other briefly on the street, but did not bother each other with communication.
Razumikhin promised to help Raskolnikov “get lessons.” Without understanding why he is dragging himself to his friend, Raskolnikov, he decides: “After that, I’ll go, when it’s over and when everything goes anew.” And he catches himself thinking that he is thinking seriously about what he has planned, thinking about it as a task that he must complete. He goes wherever his eyes lead him. In a nervous chill, he “passed Vasilyevsky Island, went out onto the Malaya Neva, crossed the bridge and turned to the islands.” He stops and counts the money: about thirty kopecks. He calculates that he left about fifty kopecks with Marmeladov. In the tavern he drinks a glass of vodka and snacks on a pie on the street. He stops “completely exhausted” and falls asleep in the bushes before reaching home. He dreams that he, a little boy, about seven years old, is walking with his father outside the city.
Not far from the last of the city gardens stood a tavern, which always aroused fear in him, since there were many drunken and pugnacious men hanging around. Rodion and his father go to the cemetery, where the grave of his younger brother is located, past a tavern, next to which stands a “skinny Savras peasant nag” harnessed to a large cart. A drunken Mikolka comes from the tavern to the cart, and invites the noisy crowd to sit on it. The horse cannot move the cart with so many riders, and Mikolka begins to whip it.
Someone tries to stop him, and two guys whip the horse from the sides. With several blows of the crowbar, Mikolka kills the horse. Little Raskolnikov runs up “to Savraska, grabs her dead, bloody muzzle and kisses her, kisses her on the eyes, on the lips,” and then “in a frenzy, he rushes with his little fists at Mikolka.” His father takes him away. Waking up covered in sweat, Raskolnikov asks himself: is he capable of murder? Just yesterday he did a “test” and realized that he was not capable. He is ready to renounce his “damned dream” and feels free.
Heading home through Sennaya Square. He sees Lizaveta Ivanovna, the younger sister of “that same old woman Alena Ivanovna, the college registrar and pawnbroker with whom he was yesterday.” Lizaveta “was a tall, clumsy, timid and humble girl, almost an idiot, thirty-five years old, who was in complete slavery to her sister, worked for her day and night, trembled before her and even suffered beatings from her.” Raskolnikov hears that Lizaveta is being invited to visit tomorrow, so that the old woman “will be left at home alone,” and realizes that “he no longer has freedom of reason or will and that everything has suddenly been decided finally.”
There was nothing unusual in the fact that Lizaveta was invited to visit; she traded in women’s clothes, which she bought from “impoverished visiting” families, and also “took commissions, went on business and had a lot of practice, because she was very honest and always spoke extreme price."
Student Pokorev, when leaving, gave the old woman’s address to Raskolnikov, “if in case he had to pawn something.” A month and a half ago, he took there a ring that his sister gave him when they parted. At first sight, he felt an “insurmountable disgust” for the old woman and, taking two “tickets”, headed to the tavern. Entering the tavern, Raskolnikov inadvertently heard what the officer and the student were talking about among themselves about the old money-lender and about Lizaveta. According to the student, the old woman is a “nice woman”, since “you can always get money from her”: “Rich as a Jew, she can give out five thousand at once, and she doesn’t disdain a ruble mortgage.
She visited a lot of our people. Just a terrible bitch." The student says that the old woman keeps Lizaveta in “complete enslavement.” After the death of the old woman, Lizaveta should not receive anything, since everything was assigned to the monastery. The student said that without any shame in conscience he would kill and rob the “damned old woman,” because so many people disappear, and in the meantime, “a thousand good deeds and undertakings ... can be repaid with the old woman’s money.” The officer noticed that she was “unworthy to live,” but “it’s nature here,” and asked the student a question: “Will you kill the old woman yourself or not?” "Of course no! - answered the student. “I’m doing it for justice... It’s not about me here...”
Raskolnikov, worried, realizes that in his head “the same thoughts have just been born” about murder for the sake of higher justice, like those of an unfamiliar student.
Returning with Senna, Raskolnikov lies motionless for about an hour, then falls asleep. In the morning Nastasya brings him tea and soup. Raskolnikov is preparing to kill. To do this, he sews a belt loop under his coat to secure the ax, then wraps a piece of wood with a piece of iron in paper - making an imitation of a “mortgage” to distract the old woman’s attention.
Raskolnikov believes that crimes are so easily solved because “the criminal himself, and almost everyone, at the moment of the crime is subject to some kind of decline in will and reason, replaced, on the contrary, by childish phenomenal frivolity, and precisely at the moment when it is most necessary reason and caution. According to his conviction, it turned out that this eclipse of reason and decline of will engulfs a person like a disease, develops gradually and reaches its highest moment shortly before committing a crime; continue in the same form at the very moment of the crime and for some time after it, judging by the individual; then they pass, just as any disease passes.” Not finding an ax in the kitchen, Raskolnikov “was terribly shocked,” but then stole the ax from the janitor’s room.
He walks the road “sedately” so as not to arouse suspicion. He is not afraid, because his thoughts are occupied with something else: “so, it is true, those who are led to execution attach their thoughts to all the objects that they encounter on the road.”
He doesn’t meet anyone on the stairs; he notices that on the second floor in the apartment the door is open, as renovations are underway there. Having reached the door, he rings the bell. They don't open it for him. Raskolnikov listens and realizes that someone is standing behind the door. After the third ring, he hears that the constipation is being removed.
Raskolnikov frightened the old woman by pulling the door towards him, as he was afraid that she would close it. She did not pull the door towards her, but did not release the lock handle. He almost pulled the lock handle, along with the door, onto the stairs. Raskolnikov goes to the room, where he gives the old woman the prepared “pledge”. Taking advantage of the fact that the pawnbroker went to the window to look at the “mortgage” and “stood with her back to him,” Raskolnikov takes out an ax. “His hands were terribly weak; he himself heard how, with every moment, they became more and more numb and stiff. He was afraid that he would let go and drop the ax... suddenly his head seemed to spin.” He hits the old woman on the head with a gun.
“It was as if his strength was not there. But as soon as he lowered the ax once, strength was born in him.” Having made sure that the old woman is dead, he carefully takes the keys out of her pocket. When he finds himself in the bedroom, it seems to him that the old woman is still alive, and he, grabbing an ax, runs back to strike again, but sees on the neck of the murdered woman a “string” on which hang two crosses, an icon and a “small suede greasy wallet.” with a steel rim and ring.” He puts the wallet in his pocket. Among the clothes he looks for gold things, but does not have time to take much. Suddenly Lizaveta appears, and Raskolnikov rushes at her with an ax. After this, fear takes over him. Every minute his disgust for what he did grows in him.
In the kitchen, he washes away traces of blood from his hands, the ax, and his boots. He sees that the door is slightly open, and therefore “locked it.” He listens and understands that someone is rising “here.” The doorbell rings, but Raskolnikov doesn’t answer. They notice behind the door that it is locked with a hook from the inside, and they suspect that something has happened. Two of those who came go downstairs to call the janitor. One remains at the door, but then also comes down. At this moment, Rodion Raskolnikov leaves the apartment, goes down the stairs and hides in the apartment, where renovations are underway.
When people go up to the old pawnbroker, Raskolnikov runs from the crime scene. At home, he needs to quietly put the ax back. Since the janitor is not visible, Raskolnikov puts the ax in its original place. He returns to the room and, without undressing, throws himself onto the sofa, where he lies in oblivion. “If anyone had entered the room then, he would have immediately jumped up and screamed. Scraps and fragments of some thoughts swarmed in his head; but he couldn’t grab a single one, couldn’t stop at a single one, despite his efforts...”
PART TWO
The first thought that flashes through Raskolnikov’s mind when he wakes up is that he will “go crazy.” He's shivering. He jumps up and looks at himself at the window to check if there is any evidence, repeats the inspection three times. Seeing that the fringe on the trousers is stained with blood, he cuts it off. He hides stolen things in a hole under paper. He notices, taking off his boot, that the tip of his sock is covered in blood. After that, he checks everything several more times, but then falls on the sofa and falls asleep. He wakes up from a knock on the door. A janitor appears with a summons to the police. Raskolnikov has no idea why he is being called. He decides that they want to lure him into a trap in this way.
He intends to confess if he is asked about the murder. At the station, the scribe sends him to the clerk. He informs Raskolnikov that he was summoned in the case of the collection of money by the landlady. Raskolnikov explains his situation: he wanted to marry the landlady’s daughter, he spent money, issued bills; when the owner's daughter died of typhus, her mother began to demand payment of bills. “The clerk began to dictate to him the form of the usual response in such a case, that is, I cannot pay, I promise then (someday) I will not leave the city, I will not sell or give away property, and so on.”
At the police station they are talking about the murder of an old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov loses consciousness. Having come to his senses, he says that he doesn’t feel well. Once on the street, he is tormented by the thought that he is suspected.
Having made sure that his room was not searched, Raskolnikov takes the stolen things and “loads his pockets with them.” He heads to the embankment of the Catherine Canal to get rid of all this, but abandons this intention because “they might notice there.” Goes to Neva. Coming out onto the square from V-th Avenue, he notices the entrance to the courtyard, a “dead fenced-off place.” He hides the stolen things under a stone, without even looking at how much money was in the wallet, for the sake of which “he endured all the torment and deliberately went to such a vile, disgusting deed.” Everything he encounters along the way seems hateful to him.
He comes to Razumikhin, who notices that his friend is sick and delirious. Raskolnikov wants to leave, but Razumikhin stops him and offers help. Raskolnikov leaves. On the embankment, he almost gets hit by a passing carriage, for which the coachman whips him on the back. The merchant's wife gives him two kopecks because she takes him for a beggar. Raskolnikov throws a coin into the Neva.
Goes to bed at home. He's delusional. It seems to him that Ilya Petrovich is beating the landlady, and she is screaming loudly. Opening his eyes, he sees the cook Nastasya in front of him, who brought him a plate of soup. He asks why the owner was beaten. The cook says that no one beat her, that it is the blood in him that is screaming. Raskolnikov falls into unconsciousness.
When Raskolnikov woke up on the fourth day, Nastasya and a young guy in a caftan with a beard, who “looked like an artel worker,” were standing at his bedside. The hostess was looking out of the door, who “was shy and had a hard time enduring conversations and explanations, she was about forty years old, and she was fat and fat, black-browed and dark-eyed, kind from fatness and laziness; and she’s even very pretty.” Razumikhin enters. The guy in the caftan actually turns out to be an artel worker from the merchant Shelopaev. The artel worker reports that a transfer from his mother came through their office to Raskolnikov, and gives him 35 rubles.
Razumikhin tells Raskolnikov that Zosimov examined him and said that there was nothing serious, that he now dines here every day, since the hostess, Pashenka, honors him with all her heart, that he found him and got acquainted with the affairs, that he vouched for him and gave Chebarov ten rubles. He gives Raskolnikov the loan letter. Raskolnikov asks him what he was talking about in his delirium. He replies that he muttered something about earrings, chains, about Krestovy Island, about the janitor, about Nikodim Fomich and Ilya Petrovich, for some reason he was very interested in the sock, the fringe from the trousers. Razumikhin takes ten rubles and leaves, promising to return in an hour. After looking around the room and making sure that everything he was hiding remained in place, Raskolnikov falls asleep again. Razumikhin brings clothes from Fedyaev’s shop and shows them to Raskolnikov, and Nastasya makes her comments regarding the purchases.
To examine the sick Raskolnikov, a medical student named Zosimov comes, “a tall and fat man, with a puffy and colorless pale, smooth-shaven face, with straight blond hair, glasses and a large gold ring on a finger swollen with fat. He was twenty-seven years old... Everyone who knew him found him a difficult person, but they said that he knew his business.” There is a conversation about the murder of the old woman. Raskolnikov turns to the wall and examines the flower on the wallpaper, as he feels that his arms and legs are going numb. Meanwhile, Razumikhin reports that the dyer Mikolai has already been arrested on suspicion of murder, and Kokh and Pestryakov, who were detained earlier, have been released.
Mikolay drank for several days in a row, and then brought the tavern owner Dushkin a case with gold earrings, which he, in his words, “picked up on the panel.” After drinking a couple of glasses and taking change from one ruble, Mikolai ran away. He was detained after a thorough search “at a nearby outpost, at an inn,” where he wanted to hang himself drunk in a barn. Mikolai swears that he didn’t kill, that he found the earrings behind the door on the floor where he and Mitriy were painting. Zosimov and Razumikhin are trying to reconstruct the picture of the murder. Zosimov doubts that the real killer has been detained.
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin arrives, “already middle-aged, prim, dignified, with a cautious and grumpy face,” and, looking around Raskolnikov’s “cramped and low “sea cabin,” he reports that his sister and mother are coming. “In general, Pyotr Petrovich was struck by something special, namely something that seemed to justify the title of “groom”, so unceremoniously given to him now. Firstly, it was clear, and even too noticeable, that Pyotr Petrovich was in a hurry to take advantage of the few days in the capital in order to have time to dress up and put on his make-up in anticipation of the bride, which, however, was very innocent and permissible.
Even one’s own, perhaps even too complacent, one’s own consciousness of his pleasant change for the better could be forgiven for such a case, for Pyotr Petrovich was on the groom’s line.” Luzhin regrets that he found Raskolnikov in such a state, reports that his sister and mother will temporarily stay in the rooms maintained by the merchant Yushin, that he has found an apartment for them, but temporarily he himself lives in the rooms of Mrs. Lippewechsel in the apartment of a friend, Andrei Semenych Lebezyatnikov. Luzhin talks about progress, which is driven by personal interest.
“If, for example, they still told me: “love” and I loved, then what came of it? - Pyotr Petrovich continued, perhaps with excessive haste, - what happened was that I tore my caftan in half, shared it with my neighbor, and both of us were left half naked, according to the Russian proverb: “You will follow several hares at once, and you will not achieve a single one.” Science says: love yourself first, first of all, for everything in the world is based on personal interest. If you love yourself alone, then you will manage your affairs properly and your caftan will remain intact. Economic truth adds that the more private affairs and, so to speak, entire caftans are organized in a society, the more solid foundations there are for it and the more common affairs are organized in it.
Therefore, by acquiring solely and exclusively for myself, I thereby acquire, as it were, for everyone and lead to the fact that my neighbor receives a somewhat more torn caftan, and no longer from private, individual generosity, but as a result of general prosperity.” There's talk of murder again. Zosimov reports that they are interrogating those who brought things to the old woman. Luzhin discusses the reasons for the increase in crime. Raskolnikov and Luzhin quarrel. Zosimov and Razumikhin, leaving Raskolnikov’s room, notice that Raskolnikov does not react to anything, “except for one point that makes him lose his temper: murder...”. Zosimov asks Razumikhin to tell him more about Raskolnikov. Nastasya asks Raskolnikov if he will drink tea. He frantically turns to the wall.
Left alone, Raskolnikov dresses in a dress bought by Razumikhin and leaves to wander the streets unnoticed by anyone. He is sure that he will not return home, because he needs to end his old life, he “doesn’t want to live like that.” He wants to talk to someone, but no one cares about him. He listens to the singing of women near the house, which was “all under drinking bars and other food establishments.” Gives it to the girl for a drink. He talks about someone who was sentenced to death: let it be on a high cliff above the ocean, let it be on a small platform where only two legs fit, but just to live. He reads newspapers in the tavern.
With Zametov, who was at the station during Raskolnikov’s fainting spell and later visited him during his illness, they begin to talk about murder. “Raskolnikov’s motionless and serious face transformed in an instant, and suddenly he burst into the same nervous laughter as before, as if he was completely unable to restrain himself. And in an instant he remembered with extreme clarity of sensation one recent moment when he was standing outside the door with an ax, the lock was jumping, they were swearing and breaking in behind the door, and he suddenly wanted to shout at them, swear at them, stick out his tongue at them, tease them , laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh!” Zametov notes that he is “either crazy or...”.
Raskolnikov talks about counterfeiters, and then, when the conversation returns to the murder, he says what he would do in the place of the murderer: he would hide the stolen things in a remote place under a stone and not take them out for a couple of years. Zametov again calls him crazy. “His eyes sparkled; he turned terribly pale; his upper lip trembled and jumped. He leaned over to Zametov as close as possible and began to move his lips without saying anything; This went on for about half a minute; he knew what he was doing, but he couldn't control himself. A terrible word, like the lock on the door at that time, was jumping on his lips: it was about to break; Just about to let him down, just about to pronounce him!” He asks Zametov: “What if I killed the old woman and Lizaveta?”, and then leaves. On the porch he runs into Razumikhin, who invites him to a housewarming party. Raskolnikov wants to be left alone, since he cannot recover due to the fact that he is constantly irritated.
On the bridge, Raskolnikov sees a woman throwing herself down and watching as they pull her out. Thinks about suicide.
He finds himself at “that” house, which he has not been to since “that” evening. “An irresistible and inexplicable desire drove him.” He curiously examines the stairs and notices that the apartment, which was being renovated, is locked. In the apartment where the murder took place, the walls are covered with new wallpaper. “For some reason Raskolnikov didn’t like this terribly; he looked at this new wallpaper with hostility, as if it was a pity that everything had changed so much.” When the workers asked Raskolnikov what he needed, he “got up, went out into the hallway, took the bell and pulled it.
The same bell, the same tinny sound! He pulled a second, third time; he listened and remembered. The former, painfully terrible, ugly sensation began to be recalled to him more and more vividly, he shuddered with every blow, and it became more and more pleasant for him.” Raskolnikov says that “there was a whole puddle here,” and now the blood has been washed away. Having gone down the stairs, Raskolnikov heads to the exit, where he meets several people, including a janitor who asks him why he came. “Watch,” Raskolnikov answers. The janitor and others decide that it is not worth messing with him and drive him away.
Raskolnikov sees a crowd of people surrounding a man who had just been crushed by horses, “thinly dressed, but in a “noble” dress, covered in blood.” The master's carriage is standing in the middle of the street, and the coachman is wailing that he shouted, saying he should be careful, but he was drunk. Raskolnikov recognizes Marmeladov in the unfortunate man. He asks to call the doctor and says that he knows where Marmeladov lives. The crushed man is carried home, where three children, Polenka, Lidochka and a boy, listen to Katerina Ivanovna’s memories of their past life. Marmeladov's wife undresses her husband, and Raskolnikov sends for the doctor. Katerina Ivanovna sends Polya to Sonya and shouts at those gathered in the room. Marmeladov is dying. They send for a priest.
The doctor, having examined Marmeladov, says that he is about to die. The priest confesses the dying man and then gives him communion, everyone prays. Sonya appears, “also in rags; her outfit was a penny, but decorated in a street style, according to the tastes and rules that had developed in her own special world, with a brightly and shamefully prominent purpose.” She “was short, about eighteen years old, thin, but quite pretty blonde, with wonderful blue eyes.” Before his death, Marmeladov asks his daughter for forgiveness. Dies in her arms. Raskolnikov gives Katerina Ivanovna twenty-five rubles and leaves. In the crowd he bumps into Nikodim Fomich, whom he has not seen since the scene in the office.
Nikodim Fomich says to Raskolnikov: “How did you, however, wet yourself with blood,” to which he remarks: “I’m covered in blood.” Raskolnikov is caught up by Polenka, who was sent for him by his mother and Sonya. Raskolnikov asks her to pray for him and promises to come tomorrow. He thought: “Strength, strength is needed: without strength you can’t take anything; but strength must be obtained by force, that’s what they don’t know.” “Pride and self-confidence grew in him every minute; the very next minute he became a different person from the previous one.” He goes to Pazumikhin.
He accompanies him home and during the conversation admits that Zametov and Ilya Petrovich suspected Raskolnikov of murder, but Zametov now repents of this. He adds that the investigator, Porfiry Petrovich, wants to meet him. Raskolnikov says that he saw one man die, and that he gave all the money to his widow.
As they approach the house, they notice a light in the window. Raskolnikov's mother and sister are waiting in the room. Seeing him, they joyfully rush towards him. Rodion loses consciousness. Razumikhin calms the women. They are very grateful to him, as they have heard about him from Nastasya.
PART THREE
Having come to his senses, Raskolnikov asks Pulcheria Alexandrovna, who intended to stay overnight near her son, to return to where she and Dunya were staying. Razumikhin promises that he will stay with him. Raskolnikov tells his sister and mother, whom he has not seen for three years, that he kicked Luzhin out. He asks his sister not to marry this man, because he does not want such a sacrifice from her. Mother and sister are at a loss. Razumikhin promises them that he will sort everything out. “He stood with both ladies, grabbing them both by the hands, persuading them and presenting reasons to them with amazing frankness and, probably for greater conviction, with almost every word he said, tightly, tightly, as if in a vice, he squeezed both their hands until it hurt and seemed to be devouring Avdotya Romanovna with his eyes, not at all embarrassed by it...
Avdotya Romanovna, although she was not of a timid nature, met with amazement and almost even fear the glances of her brother’s friend sparkling with wild fire, and only the boundless confidence inspired by Nastasya’s stories about this strange man kept her from trying to run away from him and drag her along with her. your mother." Razumikhin accompanies both ladies to the rooms where they are staying. Dunya tells her mother that “you can rely on him.” She “was remarkably good-looking - tall, amazingly slender, strong, self-confident - which was expressed in every gesture of hers and which, however, did not in the least take away from her movements the softness and gracefulness. Her face was similar to her brother, but she could even be called a beauty. Her hair was dark brown, a little lighter than her brother's; the eyes are almost black, sparkling, proud and at the same time, sometimes, for minutes, unusually kind.
She was pale, but not sickly pale; her face shone with freshness and health. Her mouth was a little small, but her lower lip, fresh and scarlet, protruded slightly forward.” Her mother looked younger than her forty-three years. “Her hair was already beginning to turn gray and thin, small radiant wrinkles had long appeared around her eyes, her cheeks were sunken and dry from care and grief, and yet this face was beautiful. It was a portrait of Dunechkin’s face, only twenty years later.” Razumikhin brings Zosimov to the women, who tells them about Raskolnikov’s condition. Razumikhin and Zosimov leave. Zosimov remarks: “What a delightful girl this Avdotya Romanovna is!” This causes an angry outburst from Razumikhin.
In the morning, Razumikhin understands that “something extraordinary happened to him, that he accepted into himself one impression that was completely unknown to him and unlike all the previous ones.” He is afraid to think about yesterday’s meeting with Raskolnikov’s relatives, since he was drunk and did a lot of inappropriate things. He sees Zosimov, who reproaches him for talking a lot. After this, Razumikhin goes to Bakaleev’s rooms, where the ladies are staying. Pulcheria Alexandrovna asks him about her son. “I’ve known Rodion for a year and a half: he’s gloomy, gloomy, arrogant and proud,” says Razumikhin, “lately (and maybe much earlier) he’s been suspicious and a hypochondriac.
Generous and kind. He doesn’t like to express his feelings and would rather commit cruelty than express his heart in words. Sometimes, however, he is not a hypochondriac at all, but simply cold and insensitive to the point of inhumanity, really, as if two opposing characters alternately alternate in him. Sometimes he's terribly taciturn! He has no time for everything, everyone interferes with him, but he lies there and does nothing. Not mockingly, and not because there was a lack of wit, but as if he didn’t have enough time for such trifles. Doesn't listen to what they say. Never interested in what everyone else is interested in at the moment. He values himself terribly highly and, it seems, not without some right to do so.”
They talk about how Raskolnikov wanted to get married, but the wedding did not take place due to the death of the bride. Pulcheria Alexandrovna says that in the morning they received a note from Luzhin, who was supposed to meet them at the station yesterday, but sent a footman, saying that he would come the next morning. Luzhin did not come as promised, but sent a note in which he insists that “at the general meeting” Rodion Romanovich “is no longer present,” and also brings to their attention that Raskolnikov gave all the money that his mother gave him, “ a girl of notorious behavior,” the daughter of a drunkard who was run over by a carriage. Razumikhin advises to do as Avdotya Romanovna decided, in whose opinion it is necessary for Rodion to come to them at eight o’clock. Together with Razumikhin, the ladies go to Raskolnikov. Climbing the stairs, they see that the hostess's door is slightly open and someone is watching from there. As soon as they reach the door, it suddenly slams shut.
The women enter the room where Zosimov meets them. Raskolnikov put himself in order and looked almost healthy, “only he was very pale, absent-minded and gloomy. From the outside, he looked like a wounded person or someone enduring some kind of severe physical pain: his eyebrows were knitted, his lips were compressed, his eyes were inflamed.” Zosimov notes that with the arrival of his relatives, he had “a heavy hidden determination to endure an hour or two of torture, which could no longer be avoided... He later saw how almost every word of the ensuing conversation seemed to touch some wound of his patient and reopen it; but at the same time, he was partly amazed at today’s ability to control himself and hide his feelings of yesterday’s monomaniac, who yesterday almost flew into a rage because of the slightest word.”
Zosimov tells Raskolnikov that recovery depends only on himself, that he needs to continue his studies at the university, since “work and a firmly set goal” could greatly help him. Raskolnikov tries to calm his mother down, tells her that he was going to come to them, but “the dress was delayed,” since it was in the blood of one official who died and whose wife received from him all the money that his mother sent him. And he adds: “However, I had no right, I confess, especially knowing how you yourself got this money.
To help, you must first have the right to do so.” Pulcheria Alexandrovna reports that Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova has died. Raskolnikov notes that they will still have time to “talk.” “One recent terrible sensation passed through his soul like a dead cold; again it suddenly became completely clear and understandable to him that he had just told a terrible lie, that not only would he never have time to talk, but now he couldn’t talk about anything else, never with anyone.” Zosimov leaves. Raskolnikov asks his sister if she likes Razumikhin.
She answers: “Very.” Rodion recalls his love for his master’s daughter, who was always sick, loved to give to the poor and dreamed of a monastery. The mother compares her son's apartment to a coffin and notices that because of her he has become so melancholic. Dunya, trying to justify herself to her brother, says that she is getting married primarily for her own sake.
Raskolnikov reads Luzhin's letter, which his sister and mother show him, and notices that Luzhin "writes illiterately." Avdotya Romanovna stands up for him: “Peter Petrovich does not hide the fact that he studied with copper money, and even boasted that he paved the way for himself.” Dunya asks her brother to come to them in the evening. She also invites Razumikhin.
Sonya Marmeladova enters the room. “Now it was a modestly and even poorly dressed girl, still very young, almost like a girl, with a modest and decent manner, with a clear, but seemingly somewhat frightened face. She was wearing a very simple house dress, and on her head was an old hat of the same style; only in my hands was, as yesterday, an umbrella.” Raskolnikov “suddenly saw that this humiliated creature was already so humiliated that he suddenly felt sorry.”
The girl says that Katerina Ivanovna sent her to invite Raskolnikov to the wake. He promises to come. Pulcheria Alexandrovna and her daughter do not take their eyes off their guest, but when they leave, only Avdotya Romanovna says goodbye to her. On the street, the mother tells her daughter that she is like her brother not in face, but in soul: “...you are both melancholic, both gloomy and hot-tempered, both arrogant and both generous.” Dunechka reassures her mother, who is worried about how this evening will go. Pulcheria Alexandrovna admits that she is afraid of Sonya.
Raskolnikov, in a conversation with Razumikhin, notices that the old woman had in pawn his silver watch, which passed to him from his father, as well as the ring that his sister gave him. He wants to take these things. Razumikhin advises contacting the investigator, Porfiry Petrovich, about this.
Raskolnikov accompanies Sonya to the corner, takes her address and promises to come by. Left alone, she feels something new in herself. “A whole new world unknown and dimly descended into her soul.” Sonya is afraid that Raskolnikov will see her wretched room.
A man is watching Sonya. “He was a man of about fifty, above average height, portly, with broad and steep shoulders, which gave him a somewhat stooped appearance. He was smartly and comfortably dressed and looked like a dignified gentleman. In his hands was a beautiful cane, which he tapped along the sidewalk with every step, and his hands were in fresh gloves. His wide, high-cheekbone face was quite pleasant, and his complexion was fresh, not St. Petersburg.
His hair, still very thick, was completely blond and just a little gray, and his wide, thick beard, hanging down like a shovel, was even lighter than his head hair. His eyes were blue and looked coldly, intently and thoughtfully; lips are scarlet." He follows her and, having found out where she lives, is glad that they are neighbors.
On the way to Porfiry Petrovich, Razumikhin is noticeably worried. Raskolnikov teases him and laughs loudly. Just like that, with a laugh, he enters Porfiry Petrovich.
Raskolnikov offers his hand to Porfiry Petrovich, Razumikhin, waving his hand, accidentally knocks over the table with a glass of tea standing on it and, embarrassed, goes to the window. Zametov is sitting on a chair in the corner, looking at Raskolnikov “with some kind of confusion.” “Porfiry Petrovich was dressed at home, in a dressing gown, very clean underwear and worn out shoes. He was a man of about thirty-five, shorter than average height, plump and even paunchy, shaven, without a mustache or sideburns, with tightly cropped hair on a large round head, somehow especially convexly rounded at the back of the head.
His plump, round and slightly snub-nosed face was the color of a sick, dark yellow, but rather cheerful and even mocking. It would even be kind and soulful if the expression of the eyes, with some kind of liquid watery shine, covered with almost white eyelashes, blinking as if winking at someone, did not interfere. The look of these eyes somehow strangely did not harmonize with the whole figure, which even had something feminine about it, and gave it something much more serious than could be expected from it at first glance.” Raskolnikov is sure that Porfiry Petrovich knows everything about him.
He talks about his things pledged and hears that they were found wrapped in one piece of paper, on which his name and the day of the month were written in pencil when the pawnbroker received them. Porfiry Petrovich notices that all the pawnbrokers are already known and that he was waiting for Raskolnikov’s arrival.
A dispute arises about the essence and causes of crimes. The investigator recalls Raskolnikov’s article entitled “On the Crime,” which was published in Periodical Rech two months ago. Raskolnikov is perplexed how the investigator knew about the author, since she was “signed with a letter.” The answer follows immediately: from the editor. Porfiry Petrovich reminds Raskolnikov that, according to his article, “the act of executing a crime is always accompanied by illness,” and all people “are divided into “ordinary” and “extraordinary.”
Raskolnikov explains that, in his opinion, “everyone who is not only great, but also a little out of the rut, that is, even a little bit capable of saying something new,” must be criminals. Any sacrifices and crimes can be justified by the greatness of the purpose for which they were committed. An ordinary person is not able to behave like someone who “has the right.” Very few extraordinary people are born; their birth must be determined by the law of nature, but it is still unknown. An ordinary person will not go to the end, he will begin to repent.
Razumikhin is horrified by what he heard, that Raskolnikov’s theory allows “blood to be shed according to conscience.” The investigator asks Raskolnikov whether he himself would decide to kill “to somehow benefit all of humanity.” Raskolnikov replies that he does not consider himself either Mohammed or Napoleon. “Who in Rus' doesn’t consider himself Napoleon now?” — the investigator grins. Raskolnikov asks whether he will be officially interrogated, to which Porfiry Petrovich replies that “for now this is not required at all.”
The investigator asks Raskolnikov what time he was in the house where the murder took place, and whether he saw two dyers on the second floor. Raskolnikov, not suspecting what the trap is, says that he was there at eight o’clock, but did not see the dyers. Razumikhin shouts that Raskolnikov was in the house three days before the murder, and the dyers were painting on the day of the murder. Porfiry Petrovich apologizes for confusing the dates. Razumikhin and Raskolnikov go out into the street “gloomy and gloomy.” “Raskolnikov took a deep breath...”
On the way, Raskolnikov and Razumikhin discuss the meeting with Porfiry Petrovich. Raskolnikov says that the investigator does not have facts to accuse him of murder. Razumikhin is indignant that all this looks “offensive.” Raskolnikov understands that Porfiry is “not so stupid at all.” “I get the taste at other points!” - he thinks. When they approach Bakaleev’s rooms, Raskolnikov tells Razumikhin to go up to his sister and mother, and he hurries home, since it suddenly seemed to him that there might be something left in the hole where he hid the old woman’s things immediately after the murder. Not finding anything, he goes out and sees a tradesman talking about him with the janitor. Rodion asks what he needs.
The tradesman leaves, and Raskolnikov runs after him, asking him the same question. He throws in his face: “Murderer!”, and then leaves, Raskolnikov follows him with his gaze. Returning to his closet, he lies for half an hour. When he hears that Razumikhin is coming up to him, he pretends to be asleep, and he, barely looking into the room, leaves. He begins to think, feeling his physical weakness: “The old woman was only sick... I wanted to get over it as quickly as possible... I didn’t kill a person, I killed a principle! I killed the principle, but I didn’t step over it, I stayed on this side...
All he managed to do was kill. And even then he failed, it turns out...” He calls himself a louse, because he talks about this, since “for a whole month he disturbed the all-good providence, calling as witnesses that he was not undertaking it for his own, they say, flesh and lust, but has in it a magnificent and pleasant goal in sight”: “...I myself, perhaps, am even nastier and nastier than a killed louse, and I had a presentiment in advance that I would tell myself this after I kill!” He comes to the conclusion that he is a “trembling creature”, as he thinks about the correctness of what he has done.
Raskolnikov has a dream. He is on the street where there are a lot of people. On the sidewalk a man waves to him. He recognizes him as a former tradesman who turns and slowly walks away. Raskolnikov follows him. He climbs the stairs, which seem familiar to him. He recognizes the apartment where he saw the workers. The tradesman was obviously hiding somewhere. Raskolnikov enters the apartment. An old woman sits on a chair in the corner, whom he hits on the head with an ax several times. The old woman laughs. He is overcome by rage, he hits and hits the old woman on the head with all his might, but she only laughs even more. The apartment is full of people watching what is happening and saying nothing, waiting for something. He wants to scream, but wakes up. There is a man in his room. Raskolnikov asks what he needs. He introduces himself - this is Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov.
PART FOUR
While Raskolnikov is wondering if he is dreaming, his guest explains that he came to meet him and asks him to help him “in one enterprise” that directly concerns Dunya’s interest. Svidrigailov is trying to prove that it is not true that he stalked an innocent girl in his house, since he is capable of deep feelings. Raskolnikov wants the uninvited guest to leave, but he intends to speak out. Raskolnikov listens to Svidrigailov, who considers himself innocent of his wife’s death. In his youth, Svidrigailov was a sharper, caroused, and made debts, for which he was sent to prison. Marfa Petrovna bought him for “thirty thousand pieces of silver.” For seven years they lived in the village, without leaving anywhere.
On his name day, his wife gave him a document about these 30 thousand, written out in someone else’s name, as well as a significant amount of money. He admits that he has already seen a ghost three times since his wife’s death, to which Raskolnikov suggests that he go to the doctor. Svidrigailov suggests that “ghosts are, so to speak, scraps and fragments of other worlds, their beginning. A healthy person, of course, has no need to see them, because a healthy person is the most earthly person, and therefore, must live only this life here, for completeness and for order.
Well, the moment you get sick, the normal earthly order in the body is slightly disrupted, the possibility of another world immediately begins to take its toll, and the more sick you are, the more contacts with another world there are, so that when a completely human person dies, he will directly pass on to another world " He says that Avdotya Romanovna should not marry, that he is going to propose to her himself. He offers his assistance in disrupting Dunya’s wedding with Luzhin, and is ready to offer Avdotya Romanovna ten thousand rubles, which he does not need. It was precisely because his wife “concocted” this alliance that he had a fight with her. Marfa Petrovna also indicated in her will that Dunya should be given three thousand rubles. He asks Raskolnikov to arrange a meeting with his sister. After that, he leaves and runs into Razumikhin at the door.
On the way to Bakaleev, Razumikhin asks who was with Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov explains that this is Svidrigailov, a “very strange” man who “decided on something,” and notes that Dunya must be protected from him. Razumikhin admits that he visited Porfiry and wanted to call him to talk, but nothing happened. In the corridor they run into Luzhin, so the three of them enter the room. Mother and Luzhin talk about Svidrigailov, whom Pyotr Petrovich calls “the most depraved and lost in vices of all people of this kind.”
Luzhin says that Marfa Petrovna mentioned that her husband knew a certain Resslich, a small pawnbroker. She lived with a deaf-mute fourteen-year-old relative who hanged herself in the attic. According to the denunciation of another German woman, the girl committed suicide because Svidrigailov abused her, and only thanks to the efforts and money of Marfa Petrovna, her husband managed to avoid punishment. From Luzhin’s words it becomes known that Svidrigailov also drove Philip’s servant to suicide. Dunya objects, testifying that he treated the servants well. Raskolnikov reports that about an hour and a half ago, Svidrigailov came to him, who wants to meet Dunya in order to make her a lucrative offer, and that according to Marfa Petrovna’s will, Dunya is entitled to three thousand rubles.
Luzhin notes that his demand has not been fulfilled, and therefore he will not talk about serious matters in front of Raskolnikov. Dunya tells him that she intends to make a choice between Luzhin and her brother, she is afraid of making a mistake. According to Luzhin, “love for your future life partner, for your husband, should exceed love for your brother.” Raskolnikov and Luzhin sort things out. Luzhin tells Duna that if he leaves now, he will never return, reminds him of his costs. Raskolnikov kicks him out. Going down the stairs, Pyotr Petrovich still imagines that the matter “may not be completely lost yet and, as far as some ladies are concerned, even “very, very” fixable.”
“Pyotr Petrovich, having risen from insignificance, became painfully accustomed to admiring himself, highly valued his intelligence and abilities, and even sometimes, alone, admired his face in the mirror. But more than anything else in the world, he loved and valued his money, obtained through labor and all sorts of means: it made him equal to everything that was higher than him.” He wanted to marry a poor girl in order to dominate her. A beautiful and smart wife would help him make a career.
After Luzhin leaves, Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunechka rejoice at the break with Pyotr Petrovich. Razumikhin is absolutely delighted. Raskolnikov conveys to those present his conversation with Svidrigailov. Dunya is interested in her brother’s opinion. It seems to her that she needs to meet with Svidrigailov. Plans for his and Dunya’s future are already spinning in Razumikhin’s head. He says that with the money the girl gets and his thousand, he can start publishing books. Dunya supports Razumikhin's ideas. Raskolnikov also speaks approvingly of them.
Unable to get rid of thoughts of murder, Raskolnikov leaves, noting in parting that perhaps this meeting will be their last. Dunya calls him “an insensitive, evil egoist.” Raskolnikov waits for Razumikhin in the corridor, and then asks him not to leave his mother and sister. “They looked at each other in silence for a minute. Razumikhin remembered this moment all his life. Raskolnikov’s burning and intent gaze seemed to intensify with every moment, penetrating into his soul, into his consciousness. Suddenly Razumikhin shuddered. Something strange seemed to pass between them... Some idea slipped through, like a hint; something terrible, ugly and suddenly understood on both sides... Razumikhin turned pale as death.” Returning to Raskolnikov’s relatives, Razumikhin calmed them down as best he could.
Raskolnikov comes to Sonya, who lived in a wretched room, which “looked like a barn, had the appearance of an irregular quadrangle.” There was almost no furniture: a bed, a table, two wicker chairs, a simple wooden chest of drawers. “The poverty was visible.” Raskolnikov apologizes for showing up so late. He came to say “one word”, since perhaps they would not see each other again. Sonya says that it seemed to her that she saw her father on the street, admits that she loves Katerina Ivanovna, who, in her opinion, is “pure”: “She so believes that there must be justice in everything, and demands... And although torture her, but she will not do injustice.”
The owner intends to throw her and the children out of the apartment. Sonya says that Katerina Ivanovna is crying, completely crazy with grief, she keeps saying that she will go to her city, where she will open a boarding house for noble maidens, and fantasizes about the future “wonderful life.” They wanted to buy shoes for the girls, but they didn’t have enough money. Katerina Ivanovna is sick with consumption and will soon die. Raskolnikov “with a cruel grin” says that if Sonya suddenly gets sick, the girls will have to follow her own path.
She objects: “God will not allow such horror!” Raskolnikov rushes around the room, and then approaches Sonya and, bending down, kisses her foot. The girl recoils from him. “I didn’t bow to you, I bowed to all human suffering,” says Raskolnikov and calls her a sinner who “killed and betrayed herself in vain.” He asks Sonya why she doesn't commit suicide. She says that her family will be lost without her. He thinks that she has three roads: “to throw herself into a ditch, end up in a madhouse or... or, finally, throw herself into debauchery, which stupefies the mind and petrifies the heart.”
Sonya prays to God, and on her chest of drawers she has the Gospel, which was given to her by Lizaveta, the sister of the murdered old woman. It turns out that they were friendly. Raskolnikov asks to read from the Gospel about the resurrection of Lazarus. Sonya, having found the right place in the book, reads, but falls silent. Raskolnikov understands that it is difficult for her to “expose everything that is hers. He realized that these feelings really seemed to constitute her real and already long-standing, perhaps, secret.” Sonya, having overcome herself, begins to read intermittently. “She was approaching the word about the greatest and unheard of miracle, and a feeling of great triumph overwhelmed her.” She thought that Raskolnikov would now hear him and believe.
Raskolnikov admits that he abandoned his family and suggests to Sonya: “Let’s go together... I came to you. We are cursed together, we will go together!” He explains to her that he needs her, that she “also overstepped... was able to overstep”: “You laid hands on yourself, you ruined your life... yours (it’s all the same!) You could live in spirit and mind, but cum on Sennaya... But you can’t stand it and if you’re left alone, you’ll go crazy, like me. You’re already like crazy; Therefore, we must go together, along the same road! Let's go to!" Sonya doesn't know what to think. Raskolnikov says: “Afterwards you will understand... Freedom and power, and most importantly power! Over all the trembling creatures and over the entire anthill! He adds that he will come to her tomorrow and tell her the name of the killer, since he chose her. Leaves. Sonya has been delirious all night. Svidrigailov overheard their entire conversation, hiding in the next room behind the door.
In the morning, Rodion Raskolnikov enters the investigative police department and asks to be received by Porfiry Petrovich. “The most terrible thing for him was to meet this man again: he hated him beyond measure, endlessly, and was even afraid of somehow revealing himself with his hatred.” During a conversation with Porfiry Petrovich, Raskolnikov feels anger gradually growing in him. He says that he came for interrogations, that he is in a hurry to attend the funeral of an official crushed by horses. He is clearly nervous, but Porfiry Petrovich, on the contrary, is calm, winks at him from time to time, smiles.
Porfiry Petrovich explains to Raskolnikov why it takes them so long to start a conversation: if two people who mutually respect each other get together, then within half an hour they cannot find a topic for conversation, because “they become numb in front of each other, sit and are mutually embarrassed.” He penetrates Raskolnikov’s psychology, he understands that he is a suspect. Porfiry Petrovich indirectly accuses Raskolnikov. He says that the killer is temporarily free, but he will not run away from him: “Did you see the butterfly in front of the candle? Well, so he will all be, everything will be around me, like around a candle, spinning; freedom will not be nice, it will begin to think, get confused, entangle itself all around, as if in a net, worry itself to death!”
After Porfiry Petrovich’s next monologue, Raskolnikov tells him that he is convinced that he is suspected of committing a crime, and declares: “If you have the right to legally persecute me, then persecute me; arrest, then arrest. But I won’t allow myself to laugh in my own eyes and torment myself.” Porfiry Petrovich tells him that he knows about how he went to rent an apartment late at night, how he rang the bell, and was interested in blood. He notices that Razumikhin, who just recently tried to find out this or that from him, is “too kind a person for that,” tells a “painful case” from practice, and then asks Raskolnikov if he would like to see the “surprise, sir,” which he has it under lock and key. Raskolnikov is ready to meet with anyone.
There is a noise behind the door. A pale man appears in the office, whose appearance was strange. “He looked straight ahead, but as if not seeing anyone. Determination sparkled in his eyes, but at the same time a mortal pallor covered his face, as if he had been led to execution. His completely white lips trembled slightly. He was still very young, dressed like a commoner, average height, thin, with hair cut in a circle, with thin, seemingly dry features.” This is the arrested dyer Nikolai, who immediately admits that it was he who killed the old woman and her sister. Porfiry Petrovich finds out the circumstances of the crime.
Remembering Raskolnikov, he says goodbye to him, hinting that this will not be the last time they see each other. Raskolnikov, already at the door, asks ironically: “Aren’t you going to show me a surprise?” He understands that Nikolai lied, the lie will come to light and then they will attack him. Returning home, he thinks: “I’m late for the funeral, but I have time for the wake.” Then the door opened, and “a figure appeared - yesterday’s man from underground.” He was among the people standing at the gate of the house where the murder took place on the day when Raskolnikov came there. The janitors did not go to the investigator, so he had to do it. He asks for forgiveness from Raskolnikov “for the slander and for the malice”, says that he left Porfiry Petrovich’s office after him.
PART FIVE
After the explanations with Dunechka and her mother, Luzhin’s pride was pretty wounded. He, looking at himself in the mirror, thinks that he will find himself a new bride. Luzhin was invited to the wake along with his neighbor Lebezyatnikov, whom he “despised and hated even beyond measure, almost from the very day he moved in with him, but at the same time seemed to be somewhat afraid.” Lebezyatnikov is a supporter of “progressive” ideas. Finding himself in St. Petersburg, Pyotr Petrovich decides to take a closer look at this man, to find out more about his views in order to have some idea about the “younger generations.”
Lebezyatnikov defines his calling in life as “protest” against everyone and everything. Luzhin asks him if he will go to Katerina Petrovna’s wake. He replies that he won’t go. Luzhin notes that after Lebezyatnikov beat up Marmeladov’s widow a month ago, he should be ashamed. The conversation turns to Sonya. According to Lebezyatnikov, Sonya’s actions are a protest against the structure of society, and therefore she is worthy of respect.
He tells Luzhin: “You just despise her. Seeing a fact that you mistakenly consider worthy of contempt, you are already denying a human being a humane view of him.” Luzhin asks to bring Sonya. Lebezyatnikov brings. Luzhin, who was counting the money that was lying on the table, seats the girl opposite. She cannot take her eyes off the money and is ashamed of looking at it. Luzhin invites her to organize a lottery in her favor and gives her a ten-ruble credit card. Lebezyatnikov did not expect that Pyotr Petrovich was capable of such an act. But Luzhin was up to something vile, and therefore he rubbed his hands in excitement. Lebezyatnikov recalled this later.
Katerina Ivanovna spent ten rubles on the funeral. Perhaps she was driven by the “pride of the poor,” when they spend their last savings “just to be “no worse than others” and so that others “don’t judge” them in some way.” Amalia Ivanovna, the landlady, helped her with everything regarding preparations. Marmeladov's widow is nervous due to the fact that there were few people at the funeral, and only the poor at the wake. Mentions Luzhin and Lebezyatnikov in the conversation.
Raskolnikov arrives at the moment when everyone is returning from the cemetery. Katerina Ivanovna is very happy about his appearance. She finds fault with Amalia Ivanovna, treats her “extremely carelessly.”
10 CLASS
FEDOR DOSTOEVSKY
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Part one
At the beginning of July, in an extremely hot time, in the evening, one young man came out of his closet room, which he rented in the S-kogo lane of St. Petersburg, onto the street and slowly, as if hesitating, went to the K-go bridge.
This young man is Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. The closet where he lived was located under the very roof of a five-story building and looked more like a closet than a real room.
Rodion was heading to the old money-lender. Debt, hunger, and hopelessness pushed him to take this step. He was pawning the last valuable thing - a family heirloom - his late father's watch. Raskolnikov behaved somehow suspiciously: he was nervous, looking around as if he was afraid of something.
The feverish woman, with her greed and callousness, gives him an unkind feeling. But it is not only personal poverty and thoughts about an unjust society where the poor and the rich exist that are the cause of his torment and suffering. Returning from the pawnbroker, the young man meets retired official Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov in a pub. Without hesitation, because he has long been accustomed to humiliation and bullying, the “drunken” Marmeladov tells Raskolnikov the story of his family: his wife Ekaterina Ivanovna, daughter Sonya, who was forced to become a prostitute for the sake of her younger sisters and brother. Marmeladov could not see the suffering of those he loved, so he began to drink, even sometimes taking money from Sonya for a hangover, although he understood that with his drunkenness he was only increasing the suffering of his relatives. The nobility and dignity, and regret, and sympathy of this “little person” were crushed by poverty.
Marmeladov’s confession, a family scene in his apartment, a meeting with a disgraced girl on the boulevard, a dandy and a policeman cause Raskolnikov pain for the “scold and offended” and an awareness of hopelessness. As Raskolnikov leaves, he thinks about Sonya’s fate. “What a well, however, they managed to dig! and enjoy it! This is how they use it! and got used to it. We cried and got used to it. A vile person gets used to everything.” He reasoned like this: when it is already clear that the entire human race is vile, it turns out that its laws are no more important because of prejudice, therefore there are no barriers, therefore everything is allowed to a person.
Rodion's state of mind is strengthened by a letter from his mother, which he received the next day. In this letter, she talked about the humiliation of the feminine dignity of his sister Dunya on the estate of the Svidrigailov landowners, where she served as a governess. To improve her miserable family situation, Dunya agrees to marry the businessman Luzhin, who was an insignificant person, but had money. He was going to build a marriage not on love, but on the poverty of the bride, who would become completely dependent on him. Almost the entire time Raskolnikov read the letter, his face was wet with tears. He suddenly feels that he can’t breathe in his room and, grabbing his hat, rushes out into the street. He is well aware that his sister is selling herself in order to be able to help him, he understands that he cannot accept such a sacrifice from his sister. This sacrifice was the same as Sonya's. Raskolnikov could not and did not want to put up with such injustice.
With heavy thoughts he walks through the city. He thinks of going to his friend Razumikhin - an amazingly open, cheerful, sociable guy, kind to the point of simplicity, who, however, has both virtues and depth of character. Raskolnikov wanted to ask his friend for a job, but suddenly realized that Razumikhin’s path was not for him. An “idea” wanders in his fevered imagination, the implementation of which torments him. Raskolnikov returns home.
At night, Rodion has a strange dream: childhood, he and his father are walking around the city and witnessing the mockery of a frail horse from a drunken crowd, innocent of anything. He, a seven-year-old boy, rushes to protect the animal, and no one notices him, and his father says that it is none of their business - this is, they say, drunken rowdies.
Raskolnikov woke up in a cold sweat. He thought he could really kill the old pawnbroker. Both his mind and his heart told him that he couldn’t stand it. Raskolnikov felt disgust for the old woman from the first time he saw her... And then, by chance, in a tavern, he witnesses a conversation between a student and an officer. The student talks about how the old woman drinks blood from people, mocks everyone, even her sister Lizaveti, who works in the house as a cook, a laundress, and generally does all the dirty work. The student’s words concerned old Alena Ivanovna: “Kill her and take her money, so that with their help you can then devote yourself to serving all of humanity and the common cause: do you think that one small crime will not be justified by thousands of good deeds?” These views corresponded to Raskolnikov’s “theory” of a superman to whom everything is allowed, even “blood according to his conscience.”
Raskolnikov completes his plan - he kills the worthless bloodsucker pawnbroker, and with her the innocent Lizaveta, who accidentally returned home earlier. Rodion heard voices on the stairs and quickly left the crime scene.
Raskolnikov hid the things that he took from the apartment in some convenient place, without even assessing how much it all cost.
In his room he fell on the sofa and forgot.
Part two
Rodion slept for a very long time, and when he woke up, he felt sick. He goes out into the street, communicates with people, but at some point he feels that an alienation has arisen between him and his surroundings. Only his university friend, Razumikhin, was constantly nearby and took care of his sick friend. Razumikhin called the doctor. From their conversation, Raskolnikov learned that the innocent artist Kolya had been arrested on suspicion of murder. Rodion reacts very painfully to any information about the crime, but he himself gradually begins to arouse suspicion among those around him.
Somehow Luzhin came before Raskolnikov to meet his future relative. He was struck by the squalor of the home. Luzhin himself is a bourgeois businessman. Its vital and social foundations are selfishness, economic calculation, profit. In his own enrichment, he sees the flourishing of society, while rejecting sacrifice in the name of the common good. In fact, Luzhin, like Raskolnikov, believes that individual acts of kindness cannot change the world. Rodion understands the insignificance of this man. And even more irritating is his understanding that Luzhin’s “reasonable egoism” is somewhat similar to his theory. Rodion, in confirmation of his rightness in killing the old bloodsucker, assures himself of her harmfulness to people and the inevitability of death. Luzhin did not lift the ax, but in his thoughts he suggests this option.
Part three
Rodion tries to refuse Dunya from the shameful marriage. He still looks sick, and sometimes he gets better - this calms his mother and sister a little. One day Rodion decided to go to the police (ostensibly in order to find out the fate of the things that were pledged). He enters into a conversation with investigator Porfiry Petrovich.
When Porfiry remembered the article “On the Crime...”, which outlined Raskolnikov’s messianic theory even before he committed the murder, Rodion took it as a challenge. And he accepted it. He agreed with the way Porfiry Petrovich interpreted his article. Thus, humanity is divided into two parts: “ordinary” people - the majority, and “unusual” people - the minority, to whom everything is allowed, they are the rulers of the world. The entire historical process proves that Raskolnikov believed that all outstanding, “extraordinary” people - those who gave humanity a new law, were criminals because they had to violate existing laws. The laws of Napoleon, Solomon, and Mohammed cost humanity a lot of blood. If several people prevented the promulgation of Newton's laws, he would have the right to get rid of them in order to make those laws known to all mankind, Raskolnikov argued.
The investigator analyzes the content of the article and debunks its “Napoleonic idea.” This article put Porfiry Petrovich on the trail of the killer.
The astute Porfiry almost figured out Raskolnikov, but he did not have direct evidence against Rodion. Therefore, he released the young man, hoping that remorse would lead him to confession. Having realized all the “vulgarity” and “meanness” of the crime committed, Raskolnikov suffers greatly. He understood that he could not classify himself as “those who have the right.” After all, he could not step over the blood: having committed murder, he did not feel satisfaction and peace.
On the street, Rodion witnesses Marmeladov being knocked down by horses. He helped take him home and gave the Marmeladny family money for a doctor. But the victim died soon after.
Part four
Svidrigailov arrives in St. Petersburg. He tries to offer Duna money so that she does not marry Luzhin. Svidrigailov's wife died - and there were rumors that he was to blame for her death. Having visited Rodion, he also reported that his wife had left Duna three thousand, which she would soon be able to pick up.
Luzhin, who was invited to visit Duna and her mother, began to slander Rodion and Sonya, Marmeladov’s daughter. When this gossip was exposed, Dunya kicked the groom out of the house. In addition, her anger was intensified by the fact that Luzhin openly expressed his belief that the girl should thank him for the fact that he was going to get her out of trouble - therefore she should completely submit to Luzhin after the wedding.
Soon Sonya came to Raskolnikov to invite her father to her funeral. Rodion's mother and sister were convinced of the nobility and honesty of this girl. Raskolnikov himself tried to find in Sonya understanding and salvation from his loneliness. After all, in his opinion, she also broke the law by selling herself for money. And Sonya didn’t feel lonely. After all, she sacrificed herself for the sake of others, and not for herself, like Rodion. She introduces Raskolnikov to the Bible, reads him passages about the resurrection of Lazarus, expressing the hope that something strange and good will happen in her life.
And Rodion does not bother with these thoughts. Just as he cannot convince Sonya that his theory is correct. Meanwhile, he himself has long been unsure of his rightness and even wants to be exposed. However, he doesn’t go to the police himself.
Finally, remorse leads Raskolnikov to Porfiry Petrovich. Having come to him to find out about the things that were pledged, he entered into a conversation about the psychology of criminals. At the same time, it constantly seemed to Raskolnikov that the investigator knew everything and wanted to extract a confession from him.
their meetings take place at Rodion’s apartment, in the police station, awaken Raskolnikov’s conscience, especially when the foreman, Kolya, took the murder of the old pawnbroker upon himself. During these improvisational interrogations, Rodion feels fear for himself and for his idea. The question worries him: he is the possessor who controls the world, an impostor, a “trembling creature.”
The idea of power continues to worry Raskolnikov; he cannot hear about his crime, because he does not consider it a crime to kill a “useless” pawnbroker, but at the same time he forgets that he killed the innocent Elizabeth...
Rushing to Marmeladov's wake, Raskolnikov thought angrily at his cowardice that now he would still fight.
Part five
Luzhin at first did not intend to go to Marmeladov’s funeral. But, having learned that Raskolnikov would also be present, he planned something. Therefore, that day he went to Katerina Ivanovna. The events that unfolded in this apartment at first seemed to be in his favor. Ekaterina Ivanovna, in despair, offended her landlady. And she ordered her and her family to leave the premises.
Taking advantage of this, Luzhin accused Sonya of stealing one hundred rubles. Therefore, in the eyes of everyone present, the girl also became a thief.
But it turned out that there was a witness who saw Luzhin himself put the money into Sonya’s pocket. The slander was exposed, and Luzhin was completely disgraced. After this, Raskolnikov explained to the guests why Luzhin was trying to slander the girl: by tarnishing the reputation of Sonya and himself, Luzhin was trying to regain Dunya’s favor.
Raskolnikov and Sonya drove to the girl’s apartment. In a conversation with her, Rodion confessed to the murder of the old pawnbroker. Sonya felt sorry for the young man who was suffering from the crime he had committed. She suggested that he go to the police and confess everything. The girl expressed the opinion that atonement for sin in hard labor would help Raskolnikov free himself from heavy thoughts and remorse. But Rodion did not agree with her. Sonya tried to read to the young man a passage from the Bible that talks about the resurrection of Lazarus. She herself believed in God and that some kind of miracle could also happen in her life. But this path was not acceptable for Rodion. He tried to explain to Sonya the essence of his theory, but in vain. However, he himself was no longer sure that he was right.
Proved completely to the point of despair, Ekaterina Ivanovna tried to ask officials for help, but she was refused. Everyone saw the woman’s painful condition, so almost no one was surprised by the fact that she soon died. Svidrigailov again met with Raskolnikov and said that he would take care of the fate of the orphans so that only Dunya would accept his proposal. In the conversation, Svidrigailov reported that he had heard the conversation between Rodion and Sonya.
Part six
For three days after the death of Ekaterina Ivanovna, Raskolnikov was in a strange state: “as if a fog had fallen in front of him,” he was not aware of the events that were taking place, confused them, sometimes he was overcome by anxiety and fear, sometimes apathy, indifference, like some before death. He tried to avoid a “clear and complete” awareness of his situation, although neglect of some problems “threatened him with death.”
One day Porfiry Petrovich came to Rodion and said that he had found the real killer. He explains to Raskolnikov why he came to the conclusion that it was he, Rodion, who did this. Meanwhile, he admits that he has no direct evidence and asks the young man to come to the police and confess. The main idea that the investigator is trying to convey to Raskolnikov is that Rodion’s theory, which denies all moral laws, leaves the criminal with the only source of life - God. Thus, the murderer is doomed to spiritual death. “Now you... need air, air, air!” Porfiry Petrovich is convinced that Kolya, who confessed to the crime and accepted suffering “only because of the need to atone for the sin of not conforming to the ideal, that is, Christ, does not owe anything.
However, Raskolnikov is still trying to deny everything and step over, in addition to social laws, also moral laws. In this he approaches Svidrigailov, who easily transgresses these laws. But after talking with Svidrigailov in the tavern, Rodion begins to understand that the life of this worthless husband is not at all as easy and happy as it might seem. He himself suffers from his actions. And hope for Dunya’s love was his only hope of returning to a normal life. But he finally loses this hope. After this, he sees no other choice but to shoot himself.
Raskolnikov's dialogues with the investigator are a duel between criminal consciousness and justice. Porfiry Petrovich reveals the murderer and calls on him to realize the crime of tyranny and come forward, but Rodion does not seem to. Concern about staying true to the “idea” leads him to think that he would be happy if he slaughtered only through hunger.
Raskolnikov doubted it for some time, but in the end he decided to confess. He came to his family and then to Sonya to say goodbye. Sonya forced Rodion to fall to the ground and, in the presence of the people, kiss the ground before which he fell into sin. The news of Svidrigailov’s suicide, which Raskolnikov heard at the police station, finally deprived him of his doubts.
"Siberia. On the banks of a wide, deserted river stands a city, one of the administrative centers of Russia; in the city there is a fortress, in the fortress there is a prison. A second-class convict, Rodion Raskolnikov, has been imprisoned in prison for nine months. A year and a half has passed since his crime.”
The judicial investigation proceeded without complications. Raskolnikov testified accurately and clearly, reproduced the entire murder process in detail, and indicated the stone under which he hid the loot. Investigators and judges were only surprised that he did not use that money and things and did not even know how much there was. Finally, some of the investigators, those who were interested in psychology, suggested that Raskolnikov really did not look at the wallet he hid. From this they concluded that he committed the crime in a state of temporary insanity. The sentence was more lenient than one might have hoped - eight years of second-class hard labor.
Even at the beginning of the trial, Raskolnikov’s mother fell ill. Pulcheria Alexandrovna composed a “whole story” about his urgent departure, talking about the enemies from whom her son was forced to hide.
Razumikhin and Sonya went to prison on dates whenever possible. Then came the separation.
Dunya married Razumikhin. Pulcheria Alexandrovna joyfully blessed her daughter for this marriage; but after the wedding she became even sadder, was often sick, and became delirious. Soon she died.
Raskolnikov did not know about his mother’s death for a long time, although once a month Sonya wrote in detail to Dunya and Razumikhin about Raskolnikov, and once a month she received letters from them. In her letters, Sonya claimed that Raskolnikov was completely despondent, reluctant to talk, was almost not interested in the news that she told him in letters, sometimes asked about her mother, as if he had a presentiment of her death. It is easy to install to its new state; has no frivolous hopes, is not surprised by anything; goes to work; indifferent to the conditions in which the prisoners are kept, to food, just as he is indifferent to his future fate. In her last letter, Sonya reported that Raskolnikov fell ill and was admitted to the infirmary.
During the great week, all the prisoners went to church, and Raskolnikov went too. They attacked him, called him an atheist, and almost killed him if the convoy had not separated him. It was not Raskolnikov who could understand why all the convicts loved Sonya so much and, at the same time, hated and shunned him so much.
One day, after Holy Week, Raskolnikov went to the window and saw Sonya. She could not often visit him in the infirmary, because she needed permission, but every day she came to the hospital courtyard, under the windows. And now she stood there as if she was waiting for something. Then Sonya didn’t come for several days. Raskolnikov was discharged from the hospital and learned from the prisoners that she was ill.
One warm and clear day Raskolnikov went to “work.” Coming out of the barn, he sat down on a log and began to look at the wide river. Sonya came up unnoticed and sat down next to her. Rodion himself did not understand that this had happened; it seemed to him that some force had thrown him at Sonya’s feet. At first she was scared, then she understood everything. He knelt in front of her and cried, she felt that he loved her, loved her endlessly. They wanted to speak, but could not: there were tears in their eyes. The dawn of a renewed future shone on their pale faces,
full resurrection into new life. they were resurrected by love...” Raskolnikov still had seven more years of hard labor left, but he knew that he had been resurrected, he felt that Sonya had also been resurrected with him. In the evening it seemed to him that even the convicts had changed their attitude towards him: he spoke to them, and they answered him kindly. Raskolnikov lay on his bunk and thought about Sonya. He now knew that his boundless love would atone for all his crimes against her. There was a Gospel under the pillow; he asked Sonya to bring it before he got sick, but he never read anything from it. He did not open it even now, but he thought that Sonya’s beliefs and faith would now become his feelings. “He didn’t even know that he wouldn’t get a new life for nothing, that he had to... pay for it with a great, future feat.”