Dostoevsky crime and punishment detailed summary. Brief retelling of the novel F

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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.”

PART ONE The main character of the novel, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, dropped out of university several months ago. He is very poor, wears rags, lives in a wretched closet, but he has nothing to pay for it; he has to hide from his landlady. It happens in the summer, the terrible stuffiness aggravates the serious nervous condition of the young man. Raskolnikov goes to the moneylender to get money as collateral. But this is not his only goal. A plan is brewing in his head, he is mentally and mentally preparing for its implementation. He already knows how many steps separate his house from the moneylender’s house; he notes to himself that his worn hat is too noticeable, it needs to be replaced; climbing the stairs to the pawnbroker's apartment, he sees that an apartment on her floor is being vacated, therefore, only one occupied will remain... The old pawnbroker, Alena Ivanovna, lives in a two-room apartment with her younger sister Lizaveta, a downtrodden and dumb creature. Lizaveta “walks around pregnant every minute,” works day and night for the old woman and is “in complete slavery” to her. Raskolnikov leaves a silver watch as collateral. On the way back, he goes into a tavern, where he meets Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, a drunken retired official; he tells Raskolnikov about his family. His wife, Katerina Ivanovna, the widow of an officer, has three children from her first marriage. After the death of her gambler husband, she was left without any means of support and, out of hopelessness, married Marmeladov, an official who soon lost his job, started drinking and is still drinking. Marmeladov’s daughter from his first marriage, Sonya, was forced to go to the panel because there was nothing to feed Katerina Ivanovna’s children. Marmeladov begs for money from his daughter and steals the last from his wife. At the same time, he loves to engage in self-flagellation in public, beating his chest and drunken sobs. Raskolnikov takes the drunkard home, where a scandal arises. Raskolnikov leaves, quietly leaving a few coins on the windowsill. The next morning he receives a letter from his mother, who explains to him why she could not send him money before - she herself and Raskolnikov’s sister Dunya, trying to provide him with what he needed, got into big debts. Dunya had to enter the service of the Svidrigailovs and take a hundred rubles in advance to send to her brother Rodion. For this reason, when Svidrigailov began to harass Dunya, she could not immediately leave there. Svidrigailov's wife, Marfa Petrovna, mistakenly blamed Dunya for everything and expelled her from the house, disgracing the whole city. But then Svidrigailov’s conscience woke up, and he gives his wife Dunya’s letter, in which she angrily rejects his advances and stands up for his wife. Marfa Petrovna travels around all the city houses, restoring the girl’s reputation. There is also a groom for Dunya - court councilor Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, who is about to arrive in St. Petersburg on business. Reading a letter from his mother, who is trying in vain to discover at least some positive qualities in the man Dunya agreed to marry, Raskolnikov understands that his sister is selling herself in order to help him finish his studies and get (this is what she hopes) a job in a law office, which her future husband is going to open in St. Petersburg. Mother calls Luzhin a straightforward man, citing as an example his words that he wants to marry an honest girl, but certainly poor and experienced trouble, because, in his opinion, a husband should not owe anything to his wife; on the contrary, a wife should see in the husband of his benefactor. The indignant Rodion decides to prevent this marriage. He believes that what Dunya is going to do is even worse than the act of Sonya Marmeladova, who is simply saving children from starvation. At the end of the letter, the mother says that one of these days she will send her son money, and soon she and Dunya themselves will come to St. Petersburg. Raskolnikov leaves the house and wanders around the city, talking to himself. He understands that years will pass before he finishes his studies and gets a job, and what will happen to his mother and sister during this time? And again the thought of the pawnbroker comes to him. Suddenly he notices a drunken, torn girl, almost a girl, wandering along the boulevard, whom some fat gentleman is about to approach, obviously with dirty intentions. Raskolnikov drives him away and calls a policeman, to whom he gives money for a cab driver to take the girl home. She was clearly deceived, drunk, dishonored and thrown out onto the street. Raskolnikov reflects with sympathy on the future fate of the girl, realizing at the same time that he cannot do anything - some “percentage” ends up on this path. Raskolnikov catches himself leaving the house and planning to go to his university friend Razumikhin, whom he has not seen for four months. Unexpectedly for himself, he decides to go to him not now, but “after, when it’s already over...”. His own decision horrifies Rodion. He walks wherever his eyes lead him, wanders for a long time, then turns towards the house and, completely exhausted, leaves the road, falls on the grass and falls asleep. He has a terrible dream: he, a boy of about seven, walks with his father along the road to the cemetery, past a tavern, near which stands a draft horse harnessed to a cart. A drunken horse owner, Mikolka, and his friends emerge from a tavern. Everyone gets into the cart, but the horse is old and does not have the strength to move the cart. Mikolka mercilessly whips the horse, and the others join in the beating. They beat the horse to death. Raskolnikov (a little boy) runs up to the horse screaming, kisses its dead muzzle, then rushes in a frenzy at Mikolka. His father grabs him and takes him away. Raskolnikov, waking up, thinks: will he really take an ax and start hitting him on the head?.. No, he is incapable of this, he “will not tolerate this.” This thought makes his soul feel lighter. But then an unexpected meeting occurs, returning him to the old plan. He runs into the pawnbroker's sister Lizaveta - she makes an agreement with her friends to come to them tomorrow on some business. This means that tomorrow evening the old woman will be left at home alone. Raskolnikov feels that “he no longer has freedom of mind or will, and that everything has suddenly been finally decided.” Just a month and a half ago, Raskolnikov, heading to an old woman-pawnbroker with a ring for which he wanted to borrow money, went into a tavern on the way and there heard an officer talking with a student about this same old woman and her half-sister. The student said that Lizaveta is very kind and meek, and the old woman, in her will, is not going to leave her a penny. “I would kill and rob this old woman... without any remorse,” he added. So many people disappear without support, how much good can be done with an old woman’s money! What does the life of this... evil old woman mean on the general scale?” However, when the officer asked the interlocutor if he could kill the old woman himself, he answered “no.” That tavern conversation had a strong effect on Raskolnikov. Rodion goes home and goes to bed. The next day he wakes up late and can’t get his thoughts together. Meanwhile, the day was already approaching evening. “And an extraordinary and kind of confused bustle suddenly seized him, instead of sleep and stupor.” He quickly prepares for the murder: he sews a loop for an ax on the inside of his coat, wraps it in paper and ties a fake “pledge” with a ribbon - a board and a piece of iron - to distract the old woman’s attention, and carefully goes down the stairs, steals an ax from the janitor and “gradually, not “in a hurry,” so as not to arouse suspicion, he goes to the pawnbroker’s house. Climbing the stairs, Raskolnikov notices that the apartment on the third floor, just below the old woman’s apartment, is also empty - it is being renovated. He rings the doorbell and the old woman opens it for him. Trying to untie the ribbon on the “pledge,” she turns her back to Raskolnikov, and he hits her on the head with his butt, then again and again. Carefully taking the keys out of the dead old woman’s pocket, he begins to rummage through the chests, stuffing other people’s deposits and money into his pockets. His hands are shaking, the keys can’t get into the locks, he wants to drop everything and leave. There is a noise in the next room, Raskolnikov, grabbing an ax, runs there and encounters Lizaveta who suddenly arrived, who saw him, and “her lips were twisted, like those of little children...”. Poor Lizaveta was so overwhelmed that she didn’t even raise her hands to defend herself. Raskolnikov kills her. Then he washes the blood off his hands and the axe. A daze takes over him. He shakes himself, telling himself to run. And then he notices that the front door is unlocked. He bolts it. But we have to leave! He opens the door again and stands listening. Someone is climbing the stairs. He had already passed the third floor. Only then Raskolnikov rushes back into the apartment and locks the door. The door bell keeps ringing. Someone else approached the visitor at the door. Both visitors chatter in bewilderment - after all, the old woman never leaves the house! We need to send for the janitor. One goes down, the second, after waiting a little, also leaves. Raskolnikov leaves the apartment, hides in an empty apartment on the third floor while recent visitors and the janitor climb the stairs to the fourth floor, and runs out of the house into the street. He is dying of fear and has difficulty figuring out what to do next. Approaching his house, he remembers the ax and puts it in its place in the janitor's room, where again there was no one. Finally Raskolnikov is in his room. Oya, exhausted, throws himself onto the sofa.

PART TWO Raskolnikov wakes up early in the morning. He gets a nervous chill. He carefully examines the clothes, eliminating traces of blood. Then he suddenly remembers the stolen things and frantically hides them behind the torn wallpaper. He feels feverish and drowsy, and falls asleep every now and then. He is finally awakened by a strong knock on the door - they brought a summons from the police. Raskolnikov leaves the house and plunges into unbearable heat. “If they ask, maybe I’ll tell you,” he thinks. “I’ll come in, kneel down and tell you everything...” Raskolnikov decides, approaching the office of the quarterly overseer. It turned out that he was summoned in a case of collecting a debt from his landlady. Raskolnikov, listening to the clerk’s explanations, feels the weight pressing on him subside and is filled with animal joy. At this moment there is a commotion in the office: the policeman’s assistant attacks with abuse a magnificent lady sitting in the hallway, the owner of the brothel, Luisa Ivanovna. Raskolnikov, in hysterical animation, begins to tell the clerk about his life, relatives, that he was going to marry the daughter of his landlady, but she died of typhus. They cut him off, order him to write an undertaking that he will pay the debt, etc. He writes, gives it, he can leave, but he doesn’t leave. He gets the idea to tell about the crime. And then Raskolnikov hears a conversation about the murder of the old woman and Lizaveta. He tries to leave, but loses consciousness. Having woken up, Raskolnikov tells the police, looking at him with some suspicion, that he is sick. They let him go, he hurries home - he needs to get rid of things. He wants to throw them into the water, but there are people around. Finally, he hides things under a stone in a remote, deserted courtyard. The legs themselves carry Raskolnikov to Razumikhin. He says something incomprehensible to him, refuses help and leaves. On the street he almost gets run over by a carriage; he is mistaken for a beggar and given twenty kopecks. He stops on the bridge over the Neva, where he loved to stand in the old days, looks for a long time at the panorama of the city and throws a coin into the water. “It seemed to him that he seemed to cut himself off from everyone and everything with scissors at that moment.” After long wanderings, Raskolnikov returns home and falls into half-sleep, which is interrupted by delirium: he hears the terrible screams of the landlady, who is being beaten by the assistant of the quarterly warden. He is terrified that they will come for him now. The cook Nastasya appears, pitying and feeding Raskolnikov, and says that he imagined it. Raskolnikov loses consciousness. Waking up on the fourth day, he sees Razumikhin and the cook Nastasya in his closet, who were caring for him. Thirty-five rubles sent by his mother are brought to Raskolnikov. Razumikhin settled the matter with the debt for which Raskolnikov was called to the police. With the money he receives, he buys Raskolnikov new clothes. Razumikhin’s friend, medical student Zosimov, comes to Raskolnikov. The friends are talking about their own things: tomorrow is Razumikhin’s housewarming party, local investigator Porfiry Petrovich will be among the guests; The house painter Mikolay, who worked in the house where the murder took place, was accused of murdering the old pawnbroker and Lizaveta - he found a box of gold earrings in the apartment being renovated and tried to pawn them with the owner of the tavern. Zosimov and Razumikhin discuss the details of the case. Razumikhin reconstructs the picture of the murder: Koch and Pestryakov, who came to the pawnbroker, found the killer in the apartment, but when they went down to get the janitor, the killer hid on the floor below, from where the fooling painters had just run out. There the killer dropped the case. When everyone went up to the old woman’s apartment, the killer left unnoticed. The conversation is interrupted by the appearance of an elderly, portly gentleman with a grumpy face. This is Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin - Dunya's fiancé. He informs Raskolnikov that his mother and sister are about to arrive and will stay in rooms (of the lowest standard) at his expense. Luzhin has already bought a permanent apartment for himself and Dunya, but it is now being finished off. He himself stayed nearby with his young friend Andrei Semenovich Lebezyatnikov. Luzhin starts a conversation about young people, about new trends that he tirelessly follows, about economic science, which comes to the conclusion that the more private affairs are organized in society, the better the general business is organized. In other words, love yourself first, because what does “love your neighbor” mean? - this means tear off your caftan, give him half and you will both find yourself half-dressed. Razumikhin interrupts Luzhin's ranting. Zosimov and Razumikhin return to murder. The first believes that the old woman was probably killed by one of those to whom she lent money. The second agrees with him, reports that investigator Porfiry Petrovich is interrogating them. Luzhin, intervening in the conversation, begins to rant about the increase in crime not only in the lower strata of society, but also in the upper strata. Raskolnikov intervenes in the conversation. In his opinion, the reason for this lies precisely in Mr. Luzhin’s theory - if it is carried through to the end, it turns out that people can be killed too. Raskolnikov demands Luzhin to answer whether it is true that he is most glad that his bride is a beggar, because it is more profitable to marry a beggar in order to then rule over her. He drives Luzhin away. When everyone leaves, Raskolnikov gets dressed and goes to wander around the city. He finds himself in an alley where there are “very entertaining establishments.” The thought comes to his mind about those sentenced to death who are ready to live on a rock, on a narrow platform, just to be left alive. “Scoundrel man! - thinks Raskolnikov. “And the one who calls him a scoundrel for this is a scoundrel.” He enters the tavern and asks for newspapers. Zametov, a clerk from the police station, a friend of Razumikhin, who brought him to Raskolnikov when he was unconscious, approaches him. Raskolnikov’s feverish excitement seems strange to him; in the process of talking with him, Zametov becomes suspicious. They talk about counterfeiters. Raskolnikov tells how he himself would have acted in their place later - what he would have done with the old woman’s things if he had killed her. He actually talks about the place where he hid them. And suddenly Zametova asks: “What if I killed the old woman and Lizaveta?.. Admit it, would you believe it? Yes?" Raskolnikov leaves in a state of complete nervous exhaustion. Zametov comes to the conclusion that his suspicions are groundless. At the door, Raskolnikov runs into Razumikhin. He demands to know what is happening to him and invites him to a housewarming party. Raskolnikov refuses and asks to leave him alone. He stops on the bridge, looks at the water, at the city. Suddenly a woman throws herself into the river nearby. The policeman pulls her out. Discarding the fleeting thought of suicide, Raskolnikov heads to the police station, but soon finds himself at the house where he committed the murder. He enters the house, talks to the workers who are renovating the apartment of the murdered old woman, asks them about the blood, then talks to the janitor, and seems suspicious to all of them. Raskolnikov is pondering whether to go to the quarter warden, but then he sees a man who has fallen under the hooves of horses. He recognizes Marmeladov. Feeling relieved that his visit to the police station has been postponed, Raskolnikov takes care of the wounded man. Marmeladov is being carried home. His wife Katerina Ivanovna and her three children are there. Marmeladov is dying, they send for the priest and Sonya. The dying man asks Sonya for forgiveness. Raskolnikov gives Katerina Ivanovna all his money (from those sent to him by his mother) and leaves. Katerina Ivanovna's daughter Polinka catches up with him to thank him. Raskolnikov asks the girl to pray for him, gives her his address and promises to come again. He feels a surge of strength and confidence that he too “can live, that there is still life, that his life with the old woman has not died.” Raskolnikov goes to Razumikhin and calls him into the hallway. Razumikhin accompanies him home, on the way he says that, in Zosimov’s opinion, his friend is crazy, that Zametov repents of his suspicions about Raskolnikov, that he and Porfiry Petrovich were really looking forward to his arrival. The light is on in Raskolnikov's closet - his mother and sister have been waiting for him for three hours. Raskolnikov faints.

PART THREE Having woken up, Raskolnikov announces that he has kicked out Luzhin and demands that Dunya refuse him. He doesn't accept her sacrifices. “Either me or Luzhin!” - says Rodion. Razumikhin calms his mother and sister, explaining everything with his ill health, asks them to leave, and he will look after the patient and inform them about his condition. He falls in love with Dunya at first sight, is full of delight, and at first even frightens her with his eccentricity. “He is a spy and a speculator... he is a fool,” he tells Duna about her fiancé. “Well, is he a match for you?” Dunya gains complete confidence in Razumikhin and calms her upset mother. Razumikhin accompanies Raskolnikov's mother and sister to the hotel, goes to Raskolnikov, from there again to Duna and her mother, bringing with him the doctor Zosimov. He tells the women that Raskolnikov has signs of monomania, but their arrival will help him. Waking up in the morning, Razumikhin scolds himself for yesterday’s behavior - after all, he was drunk after the housewarming party. He dresses carefully and goes to the hotel, where he tells Raskolnikov’s mother and sister what events of the last year led, in Razumikhin’s opinion, to Rodion’s illness. Raskolnikov's mother says that Luzhin did not meet her and Dunya at the station, as promised, but sent a lackey, who took them to the hotel. He himself was supposed to come this morning, but instead he sent a note. Razumikhin reads the note: Luzhin writes that Rodion Romanovich rudely offended him, and therefore he does not want to see him when he comes to them in the evening. Luzhin also reports that he saw Rodion “in the apartment of one, broken by horses, a drunkard, from this deceased, whose daughter, a girl of notorious behavior, gave up to twenty-five rubles yesterday, under the pretext of a funeral...”. Dunya decides that Rodion should come to them. But first they go to Rodion and find Zosimov with him. Rodion is pale and gloomy.” He talks about Marmeladov, about his widow, about his children, about Sonya, about why he gave them the money. Rodion’s mother, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, speaks about the sudden death of Svidrigailov’s wife, Marfa Petrovna, rumored to be from her husband’s beatings. Raskolnikov remembers the late daughter of the landlady, whom he was going to marry, then again starts talking about Dunya’s fiancé. “Either I or Luzhin,” he repeats. Dunya tells him in response that she will not marry Luzhin if he is not worthy of respect, and whether he is worthy of it or not will become clear tonight. Dunya shows her brother the groom’s letter and asks him to be present at their meeting. Suddenly Sonya Marmeladova enters the room. She invites Raskolnikov to the funeral service and commemoration. He promises to come and introduces Sonya to his mother and sister. Dunya and Pulcheria Alexandrovna leave, inviting Razumikhin to their place for dinner. Raskolnikov tells Razumikhin that the murdered old woman also had his pledge - a watch inherited from his father, and a ring, a gift from Dunya. He is afraid that they will disappear. Shouldn't he turn to Porfiry Petrovich? Razumikhin replies that, of course, he will apply, he will be glad to meet Rodion. All three leave the house. Raskolnikov asks Sonya Marmeladova for her address, and she leaves in horror that he will see how she lives. Meanwhile, some well-dressed gentleman is watching her. He quietly accompanies Sonya to the very door of her room and speaks to her there. They, it turns out, are neighbors - he lives nearby and recently arrived in town. Razumikhin and Raskolnikov go to Porfiry. Raskolnikov has one thought beating in his brain: “The most important thing is, does Porfiry know or not know that yesterday... I was in the apartment... and asked about the blood? I need to know this in an instant, from the first step, as soon as I enter, I can recognize it by his face...” He comes up with a trick - he starts a playful conversation with “Razumikhin, hinting at his attitude towards Dunya. He is embarrassed, Rodion laughs and so, laughing , enters Porfiry Petrovich. He laughs and laughs, trying to make his laughter sound natural, and Razumikhin is quite sincerely angry and accidentally touches a glass of tea standing on the table. It falls. “But why break the chairs, gentlemen?” , it’s a loss to the treasury!” - Porfiry Petrovich shouted cheerfully. Then Raskolnikov notices Zametov sitting in the corner. This seems suspicious to him. The conversation is about pawned things. It seems to Raskolnikov that Porfiry Petrovich “knows”. They start talking about the crime as such. Razumikhin does not agree with the socialists who explain the crime exclusively social reasons - allegedly, as soon as you come up with a normal society, crime will disappear. Porfiry Petrovich mentions Raskolnikov’s article “On Crime”, published in the newspaper. Raskolnikov did not know about the publication, he wrote this article six months ago. The article is devoted to the psychological state of the criminal in the process of a crime. Porfiry Petrovich claims that Raskolnikov in the article hints that there are people who have every right to commit a crime and for them the law is not written. This is a distortion of Raskolnikov’s idea. In his opinion, all extraordinary people who are capable of saying something new should certainly to be, by nature, to one degree or another criminal. People are generally divided into two categories: the lowest (ordinary), which is material for the reproduction of their own kind, and real people, that is, those who are able to say a new word. If such a person needs, for his idea, to step over even a corpse, over blood, then he can, in good conscience, give himself permission to step over blood. The first category is conservative people inclined to obedience. Those who belong to the second all break the law, they are destroyers or are inclined to do so, depending on their abilities. The first category is the master of the present, the second is the master of the future. The former preserve humanity and increase it numerically, while the latter move it and lead it to the goal. Porfiry Petrovich asks: “How... to distinguish these extraordinary ones from the ordinary ones?” Raskolnikov believes that only first-class people can make mistakes. Many of them sincerely consider themselves progressive people, “destroyers.” In fact, they often do not notice new people and even despise them. But very few such new people are born. Razumikhin is outraged that Raskolnikov believes that a person can afford to shed blood. According to Razumikhin, this “permission to blood according to conscience... is more terrible than the official permission to shed blood, legal...”. Porfiry Petrovich asks: what if some ordinary young man imagines himself as Lycurgus or Mohammed and begins to remove all obstacles? And Raskolnikov, when he wrote his article, didn’t he really consider himself, at least a little bit, also an “extraordinary” person who spoke a new word? “It may very well be,” Raskolnikov answers. Would Raskolnikov, because of some failures or something else, also decide to kill and rob for the sake of all mankind? - Porfiry Petrovich does not lag behind and winks at Raskolnikov. “If I overstepped, then, of course, I wouldn’t tell you,” Raskolnikov answers and adds that he does not consider himself Mohammed or Napoleon. “Who in Rus' doesn’t consider himself Napoleon now?” - Porfiry Petrovich objects. “Wasn’t it some future Napoleon who killed our Alena Ivanovna with an ax last week?” - Zametov suddenly says. The gloomy Raskolnikov is getting ready to leave and agrees with the investigator that he will come see him tomorrow. Porfiry Petrovich finally tries to confuse Raskolnikov with his questions, allegedly confusing the day of the murder with the day when Raskolnikov took the watch to the moneylender. Raskolnikov and Razumikhin go to Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Duna. Razumikhin is outraged that Porfiry Petrovich and Zametov are suspected of Raskolnikov’s murder. Already upon approaching the hotel, Raskolnikov has an alarming thought. He quickly goes home, locks the door and carefully searches the hole behind the wallpaper to see if there is anything left there. There is nothing. He goes out into the yard and sees: the janitor is pointing his hand at some middle-class man dressed at him. Raskolnikov approaches the janitor. The tradesman silently leaves. Raskolnikov catches up with him and asks what it all means. The man looks up at him and says quietly and clearly: “Murderer!” Raskolnikov does not lag behind the stranger; he again calls him a murderer. Raskolnikov freezes in place; on trembling legs he returns to his closet and lies down. His thoughts are confused. When he wakes up, he wonders what kind of person it was. He despises himself for his weakness; he should have known in advance how difficult it would be for him. “The old lady is nonsense! ...it's not her fault! ...I wanted to cross as quickly as possible... I didn’t kill a person, I killed a principle! ... But he didn’t cross, he stayed on this side... All he managed to do was kill. ...I’m an aesthetic louse, and nothing more...” thinks Raskolnikov. He was obliged to know in advance what would happen to him after the crime... and he knew it! Those other people are not made like him: “a real ruler... smashes Toulon, carries out massacres in Paris, forgets the army in Egypt, spends half a million people in the Moscow campaign...”, and after his death they erect monuments to him. This means that everything is allowed to them. But he doesn't. He wanted to help his mother and sister, for a whole month he convinced himself that he was committing a crime for a good purpose, he chose the most disgusting old woman as a victim, and so what? He suffers and despises himself: that’s what he needs. If he is a “trembling creature,” then his destiny is to obey and not desire more, this is not his business. In Raskolnikov’s soul, hatred for everyone rises and at the same time love for the “poor, meek, dear” - for Lizaveta, whom he killed, for his mother, for Sonya... He understands that at some moment “he will be able” to tell everything mother... Raskolnikov falls asleep and sees a terrible dream: a tradesman lures him into the old woman’s apartment, and she, alive, is hiding there in the corner. He hits her with the ax again - and she laughs. He rushes to run - and people are already waiting for him. Raskolnikov wakes up in horror and sees a stranger on the threshold. This is Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov.

PART FOUR Svidrigailov says that he needs Raskolnikov’s help in a matter concerning his sister. She won’t even let him into her doorstep alone, but together with his brother... Raskolnikov refuses Svidrigailov. He explains his vile behavior towards Dunya with love, passion. Raskolnikov says that he heard that Svidrigailov killed his wife, to which he replies that Marfa Petrovna died of an apoplexy, and he “only hit her twice with a whip.” Svidrigailov speaks without stopping. Raskolnikov, taking a closer look at him, remarks: “It seems to me... that you are in a very good society, at least you know how to be a decent person on occasion.” “...I’m not particularly interested in anyone’s opinion,” Svidrigailov replies, “and therefore why not be vulgar.... especially if you have a natural inclination towards that.” Svidrigailov tells the story of his marriage to Marfa Petrovna. She bought him out of prison, where he ended up for debt, married him and took him to the village. She loved him very much. She kept the document about the thirty thousand paid all her life as a guarantee that her husband would not leave her, and only a year before her death she returned it to him and gave him a decent amount of money. The late Marfa Petrovna appears to Svidri-Gailov. Raskolnikov is amazed - after all, the old woman he killed also appeared to him in a dream. “Why did I think that something like this would definitely happen to you!” - he exclaims. Svidrigailov was delighted: he felt that there was something in common between them; when he saw Raskolnikov, he immediately thought: “This is the one!” To the question: “Which one is the one?” - he cannot answer. Raskolnikov advises Svidrigailov to go to the doctor, he considers him “crazy.” Svidrigailov declares that Luzhin is not a match for Raskolnikov’s sister and that he is ready to offer Duna ten thousand rubles to make it easier for her to break up with her fiancé. He had a quarrel with Marfa Petrovna because she “concocted this wedding.” Marfa Petrovna bequeathed three thousand to Duna. Before his possible “voyage,” Svidrigailov wants to “finish off Mr. Luzhin” and see Dunya. In addition, he is going to soon marry “some girl.” As he leaves, Svidrigailov runs into Razumikhin at the door. At eight o'clock, Raskolnikov and a friend go to the hotel to visit his mother and sister. In the corridor they encounter Luzhin. Everyone enters the room. Luzhin is angry - his order not to let Rodion in was violated. Pulcheria Alexandrovna, trying to maintain the conversation, mentions the death of Marfa Petrovna. Luzhin reports the arrival of Svidrigailov and talks about the crime of this man, which he allegedly knows about from the words of the deceased. Svidrigailov made acquaintance with a certain Resslich, a pawnbroker, and her niece, a deaf-mute girl of fourteen, lived with her, whom she reproached with every piece and beat. One day the girl was found hanged in the attic. A denunciation was received - the girl was “cruelly insulted” by Svidrigailov. Thanks to the efforts and money of Marfa Petrovna, the matter was hushed up. Luzhin also mentions another crime of Svidrigailov - during serfdom, he tortured and drove his servant Philip to suicide. Dunya objects to Luzhin, saying that Svidrigailov treated his servants well. Raskolnikov reports about Svidrigailov’s visit, that he is asking for a meeting with Dunya, and that Marfa Petrovna left Dunya money in her will. Luzhin is about to leave, since his request was not fulfilled. Dunya asks him to stay to clarify the misunderstanding. She asks Luzhin to be “that smart and noble man” that she considered him and wants to consider him. Luzhin is offended that he is put on the same level as Rodion Raskolnikov. In his opinion, love for a husband should be higher than love for a brother. Luzhin also attacks Pulcheria Alexandrovna, who allegedly misinterpreted his words in her letter that it is better to marry a poor girl who has experienced adversity, “more useful for morality” than one who lived in contentment. Raskolnikov intervenes. Luzhin, he says, slandered him in his letter, saying that he gave it away! money not to the widow of the deceased, but to his daughter, about whom he reported offensive information, although he does not know her. According to Raskolnikov, Luzhin is not worth it? and this girl's little finger. A quarrel begins, ending with Dunya ordering Luzhin to leave, and Rodion sending him out. Luzhin leaves. He is full of hatred for Raskolnikov; he cannot believe that two sewing women could get out from under his power. Luzhin knew that the rumors about Dunya were false, and yet he considered his decision to marry her a feat that everyone should admire. It is simply unthinkable for him to give up Dunya. For many years he dreamed of marrying a noble, educated, poor and frightened girl who would revere him and obey him in everything. And finally he met Dunya - beautiful, educated and helpless. Marrying her would help his career; a beautiful and intelligent wife would attract people to him. And then everything collapsed! Luzhin hopes to improve everything. Meanwhile, everyone is happy about Luzhin’s departure. Dunya admits that she was flattered by his money, but had no idea what an unworthy person he was. Razumikhin is completely delighted. Raskolnikov reports about Svidrigailov's proposal, adding that Svidrigailov seemed strange to him, almost crazy - he either says that he will leave soon, then suddenly announces his intention to get married. Dunya is worried: it seems to her that Svidrigailov is planning something terrible. Razumikhin persuades the women to stay in St. Petersburg. He can get a thousand rubles, he needs to add another thousand - and they will start publishing books together. Dunya likes the plan. Razumikhin has already looked for a good apartment for Pulkheria Alexandrovna and Dunya. Suddenly everyone notices that Rodion is about to leave. “...Who knows, maybe this will be the last time we see each other,” comes out of his lips. Rodion asks his mother and sister to leave him alone for a while, to forget him completely. Razumikhin runs in alarm after Raskolnikov, who asks him not to abandon Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya. They look into each other's eyes, and suddenly the truth dawns on Razumikhin. He shudders and turns pale. "Do you understand now?" - says Raskolnikov. Razumikhin returns to the room and tries to calm the women down. Meanwhile, Raskolnikov goes to Sonya. A strange, irregularly shaped, gloomy, shabbyly furnished room. Sonya praises the owners, who are very kind to her. She loves Katerina Ivanovna - she is so unhappy and sick, she believes that there should be justice in everything, and she herself is fair. Sonya's face expresses “some kind of insatiable compassion.” Sonya suffers because a week before her father’s death she refused to read a book to him, and she did not give Katerina Ivanovna a collar bought from the merchant Lizaveta, the pawnbroker’s sister. Raskolnikov tells Sonya that after all, Katerina Ivanovna is sick with consumption and will soon die, she herself may also get sick, and she will be sent to the hospital... What will happen to the children then, because with Polechka it will be the same as with her, with Sonya. “No!.. God will not allow such horror!.. God will protect her!” - Sonya shouts. “Yes, maybe there is no God at all,” Raskolnikov answers. Sonya sobs inconsolably. Raskolnikov looks at her and suddenly kneels down and kisses her foot. “I didn’t bow to you, I bowed to all human suffering,” he says. Sonya considers herself “dishonest... a great sinner.” Raskolnikov tells her that her greatest sin is that she “killed and betrayed herself in vain,” that she lives in the dirt, which she hates, and that by doing this she will not save anyone from anything, and it would be better for her to simply commit suicide. “What will happen to them?” - Sonya objects. Rodion understands from her look that she has actually thought about suicide more than once, but love and compassion for the “pathetic, half-crazy Katerina Ivanovna” and her children make her live. Raskolnikov sees that the dirt surrounding Sonya has not touched her soul, it is pure. She places all her hopes in God. She reads and knows the Gospel well - Lizaveta brought her the book. Sonya doesn’t go to church, but last week she attended a memorial service for the murdered Lizaveta, who was a “just” person. Sonya reads Raskolnikov the parable of the resurrection of Lazarus. Raskolnikov tells Sonya that he abandoned his family and now he only has her left. “We are cursed together, let’s go together!” - he says. "Where to go?" - Sonya asks in fear. “You also stepped over... were able to step over. You committed suicide, you ruined your life... yours (it’s all the same!)... But... if you’re left alone, you’ll go crazy, just like me. ...So, we should go together, along the same road!” We must break everything and take on the suffering... Power over all the trembling creatures and over the entire anthill - that is the goal. Raskolnikov tells Sonya that he is leaving now, and if he comes to her tomorrow, he will tell her who killed Lizaveta. In the next, previously empty room, during the entire conversation between Raskolnikov and Sonya, Svidrigailov stood listening. The next morning, Raskolnikov goes to see investigator Porfiry Petrovich. He is sure that the person who met him yesterday and called him a murderer has already reported him. But in the office no one pays attention to Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov is very afraid of the investigator. He greets him kindly. Raskolnikov gives him a receipt for the pawned watch. Porfiry Petrovich, seeing Raskolnikov’s nervous state, starts a conversation about this and that, testing his patience. Raskolnikov really can’t stand it, he demands that the investigator interrogate him properly, but he remains faithful to his chosen tactics - he continues the florid monologue. Raskolnikov notices that he seems to be waiting for someone. Meanwhile, Porfiry Petrovich starts talking about Raskolnikov’s article, about criminals. He says a criminal should not be arrested too early. He explains at length and at length why this should not be done - the criminal, remaining free and at the same time knowing that the investigator is vigilantly watching him and knows all his ins and outs, will eventually come and confess. This is especially likely with a developed, nervous person. As for the fact that a criminal can run away, “he won’t run away from me psychologically,” says Porfiry Petrovich. Raskolnikov listens to the investigator, trying with all his might to hold on. And he starts a conversation about how the criminal sometimes does not take into account that, in addition to his speculative constructions, there is also the soul, the nature of man. So it turns out that the young man will cunningly come up with everything, lie, it would seem that he can triumph, but he just faints! Raskolnikov clearly sees that Porfiry Petrovich suspects him of murder. “I won’t allow it, sir!” - he shouts. The investigator tells him that he knows how he went to rent an apartment, rang the bell and asked about the blood, but explains all this with Raskolnikov’s illness - he allegedly did all this in delirium. Raskolnikov cannot stand it and shouts in rage: “It was not in delirium! It was real!” Porfiry Petrovich continues his crafty speeches, completely confusing Raskolnikov - he either believes or does not believe that he is suspected. “I will not allow myself to be tortured - arrest me, search me, but if you please act according to form, and not play with me, sir!” - he finally shouts. At this time, Nikolai, arrested without guilt, bursts into the room and loudly confesses to the crime he allegedly committed. Raskolnikov perks up and decides to leave. At parting, the investigator tells him that they will definitely see each other again. Arriving home, Raskolnikov reflects on what happened at the investigator's. He remembers the man who was waiting for him yesterday. And so, when he, getting ready to leave, goes to the door, it suddenly opens by itself - this is the same person. Raskolnikov died. But the man asks for forgiveness for yesterday. Raskolnikov suddenly remembers that he had seen him before, when he went to the apartment of the murdered old woman. This means that the investigator has nothing but psychology on Raskolnikov! “Now we will fight again,” Raskolnikov thinks.

PART FIVE Luzhin, getting out of bed the next morning, tries to come to terms with the thought of breaking up with Dunya. He is angry that yesterday he reported the failure to his friend Lebezyatnikov and he laughed at him. Other troubles also irritate him: his efforts on one case in the Senate ended in nothing, the owner of the apartment he rented demands payment of the penalty in full, the furniture store does not want to return the deposit. All this increases Luzhin's hatred for Raskolnikov. He regrets that he did not give money to Duna and her mother - because in this case they would feel obligated to him. Luzhin recalls that he was invited to Marmeladov’s funeral. He finds out that Raskolnikov will also be there. Luzhin despises and hates Lebezyatnikov, his former pet, with whom he stayed, having found out about him in the provinces that he was a progressive from the most advanced and seemed to play an important role in some circles. Luzhin had heard about some progressives, nihilists, denouncers, etc., existing in the capital. And he is most afraid of reproof. Therefore, heading to St. Petersburg, Luzhin decided to quickly find out what and how, and, if necessary, just in case, get closer to “our younger generations.” And Andrei Semenovich Lebezyatnikov was supposed to help him with this, although he turned out to be a “vulgar and simple-minded” person. This is one of those numerous vulgarities, half-educated tyrants who cling to every fashionable idea, turning it into a caricature, although they serve it sincerely. Lebezyatnikov also dislikes his former guardian, although he sometimes starts conversations with him about all sorts of “progressive” things. He is going to set up a commune, in which he intends to involve Sonya, whom he himself once moved out of the apartment. In the meantime, he “continues to develop” Sonya and is surprised that she is somehow fearfully chaste and shy with him.” Taking advantage of the fact that the conversation has started about Sonya, Luzhin asks Lebezyatnikov to call her to his room. She comes, and Luzhin gives her ten rubles for the widow. Lebezyatnikov is delighted with his action. The pride of the poor and vanity forced Katerina Ivanovna to spend almost half of the money she received from Raskolnikov on the funeral. Amalia Ivanovna, the landlady with whom Katerina Ivanovna had previously been at enmity, takes an active part in the preparations. To Katerina Ivanovna’s displeasure, of all the “respectable” people she invited, not one showed up. There is no Luzhin or even Lebezyatnikov. Raskolnikov arrives. Katerina Ivanovna is very happy with him. Sonya apologizes on behalf of Luzhin. Katerina Ivanovna is very excited, talks incessantly, coughs up blood, and is close to hysterics. Sonya is afraid that all this will end badly. And so it happens - a quarrel breaks out between Katerina Ivanovna and the landlady. At the height of the scandal, Luzhin appears. He claims that one hundred rubles disappeared from his table when Sonya was in the room. The girl says that he himself gave her ten rubles, and she didn’t take anything else. Luzhin demands to call the police. Katerina Ivanovna rushes to Sonya’s defense, turning out the pockets of her dress, wanting to show that there is nothing there. A hundred-ruble banknote falls to the floor. Katerina Ivanovna shouts that Sonya is incapable of stealing, turns to Raskolnikov for protection, and cries. This is enough for Luzhin - he publicly forgives Sonya. Lebezyatnikov, who appeared at that moment, refutes Luzhin’s accusation: he himself saw how Luzhin quietly put the banknote in Sonya’s pocket. He thought then that Luzhin was doing this out of nobility, in order to avoid words of gratitude. Lebezyatnikov is ready to swear before the police, but he will not understand why Luzhin committed such a vile act. “I can explain!” - says Raskolnikov. He reports that Luzhin wooed his sister, on the day of his arrival he quarreled with him, Raskolnikov, and accidentally saw him give money to Katerina Ivanovna. To quarrel between Rodion and his mother and sister, Luzhin wrote to them that he had given Sonya their last money, and hinted at some kind of connection between him and Sonya. The truth was restored, Luzhin was driven out. If now Luzhin convinced everyone that Sonya was a thief, then he would thereby prove to Raskolnikov’s mother and sister the validity of his suspicions. In general, he wanted to quarrel between Raskolnikov and his family. Sonya is confused, does not take her eyes off Raskolnikov, seeing him as a protector. Luzhin is looking for a way out of insolence. He intends to sue, he will find justice for “the atheists, troublemakers and freethinkers”! With this Luzhin disappears. Sonya becomes hysterical and runs home crying. Amalia Ivanovna drives Marmeladov’s widow out of the apartment. Drunk residents are rowdy. Raskolnikov goes to Sonya. Raskolnikov feels: “he must” tell Sonya who killed Lizaveta, and anticipates the terrible torment that will result from this confession. He hesitates and is afraid, but is aware of “his powerlessness before the need” to say everything. Raskolnikov asks Sonya a question: what would she do if she had to decide whether Luzhin or Katerina Ivanovna should die? Sonya replies: she had a presentiment that Rodion would ask her such a question. She does not know God’s providence, she is not a judge and it is not for her to decide who should live and who should not live. She asks Raskolnikov to speak directly. He obi-vyakami confesses to the intentional murder of the old woman and the accidental murder of Dyazaveta. “Why did you do this to yourself! ...There is no one more unhappy than you in the whole world now!” - Sonya screams in despair, hugging Raskolnikov. She will go to hard labor with Rodion! But suddenly Sonya realizes that Raskolnikov has not yet fully realized the gravity of what he has done. She asks about the details of the crime. “...I wanted to become Napoleon, that’s why I killed...” says Raskolnikov. It would never have occurred to Napoleon to think about whether to kill the old woman or not if he needed it. He, Raskolnikov, killed only a louse, useless, disgusting, harmful. No, he refutes himself, he is not a louse, but he wanted to dare and killed... The main thing that pushed Raskolnikov to murder, he explains this way: “I needed to find out... am I a louse, like everyone else, or a man? Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right... The devil dragged me then, and after that he explained to me that I had no right to go there, because I was just as much of a louse as everyone else!.. Am I really Did you kill the old lady? I killed myself!.. What should I do now?..” - Raskolnikov addresses Sonya. She answers him that he must go to the crossroads, kiss the ground that he desecrated by murder, bow on all four sides and say out loud to everyone: “I killed!” Raskolnikov must accept suffering and atone for his guilt with it. But he does not want to repent before people who “torture millions of people, and even consider them to be virtues... They are rogues and scoundrels... they will not understand anything...”. “I’ll still fight,” says Raskolnikov. “Maybe I’m still a human being, not a louse, and I’m hasty in condemning myself... I won’t give in to them.” And then he asks Sonya if she will come to him in prison. She wants to give him her pectoral cross, but he doesn’t take it, he says: “It’s better later.” Lebezyatnikov looks into the room. He reports that Katerina Ivanovna is not herself: she went to her husband’s former boss, caused a scandal there, came home, beats the children, sews some kind of hats for them, is going to take them out into the street, walk around the yards and beat them in the basin, instead music, and the children will sing and dance... Sonya runs away, followed by Raskolnikov and Lebezyatnikov. Raskolnikov goes to his closet. He scolds himself for going to Sonya and making her unhappy with his confession. Dunya arrives. Razumi-hin told her about the investigator's groundless suspicions. Dunya assures her brother that she is ready to give him her whole life, if only he will call her. Rodion praises Razumikhin as “an honest man and capable of loving deeply” and says to his sister: “Farewell.” Dunya leaves in alarm. Raskolnikov leaves the house. Melancholy falls upon him, a premonition of long years filled with this melancholy. They call out to Raskolnikov - this is Lebezyatnikov. He reports that Katerina Ivanovna walks the streets, beats a frying pan and makes children sing and dance. They are crying. Sonya unsuccessfully tries to take her home. The young people reach a small crowd of onlookers gawking at the strange spectacle. Katerina Ivanovna is in a complete frenzy, beating the children, shouting at the audience, trying to sing, coughing, crying... Some gentleman hands her three rubles. A policeman comes up and demands “not to be disgraceful.” The children run away, Katerina Ivanovna rushes after them, screaming and crying, stumbles and falls, her throat begins to bleed. They take her to Sonya. People gather in the room, and among them is Svidrigailov. Katerina Ivanovna is delirious. Dies. Svidrigailov offers to pay for the funeral, place the children in an orphanage and put one thousand five hundred rubles in the bank for each until they reach adulthood. He is going to “pull Sonya out of the pool” too. From Svidrigailov’s speeches, Raskolnikov understands that he heard his conversation with Sonya. Svidrigailov himself does not deny this. “After all, I said that we would get together,” he says to Raskolpkov.

PART SIX Raskolnikov is in a strange state of mind: he confuses events, cannot comprehend what is happening, and is overwhelmed either by anxiety or apathy. His attention focuses on Svidrigailov. In the two or three days that passed after the death of Katerina Ivanovna, he met with him twice. Svidrigailov is busy with the funeral, arranging the fate of her children. Razumikhin comes to Raskolnikov. He reports that Rodion’s mother is sick and still came here yesterday with Dunya and him, but no one was home. Raskolnikov tells his friend that Dunya “maybe already loves” him. Razumikhin, intrigued by Raskolnikov's behavior, decides that he is a political conspirator. He casually mentions the letter Dunya received, which greatly alarmed her, then he talks about the painter who confessed to the murder, and says that Porfiry Petrovich told him about him. After Razumikhin leaves, Raskolnikov reflects on his situation. He doesn’t understand why the investigator is trying to convince Razumikhin of the painter’s guilt. The arrival of Porfiry Petrovich himself amazes Raskolnikov. The investigator reports that he was here two days ago, but did not find Raskolnikov at home. After a long and chaotic monologue, interrupted from time to time by Raskolnikov, Porfiry Petrovich concludes that the murder was not committed by Mikolka (pious, sectarian, decided to “accept suffering”), but by a completely different person - one who “seemed to have not come to the crime with his own feet.” .. killed, killed two, according to theory. He killed, and he couldn’t take the money, and what he managed to grab, he carried under a stone... then he went to an empty apartment, half-delirious... he walked, he needed to experience the cold in his spine again... he killed, but he considers himself an honest man , despises people...” “So... who... killed?..” - Raskolnikov cannot stand it. “Yes, you killed,” replies Porfiry Petrovich. “If you think I’m guilty, why don’t you take me to prison?” - “I have nothing against you yet.” Porfiry Petrovich wants Raskolnikov to confess. “Why on earth should I confess?” Porfiry Petrovich replies that in this case he will present the crime as the result of insanity. Raskolnikov does not want such relief from his guilt. The investigator convinces him: “Don’t disdain life!.. There will be a lot of it ahead.” Raskolnikov laughs. Porfiry Petrovich tells him that he invented the theory, and now he is ashamed that he fell through, that it turned out to be completely unoriginal, vile. And yet, Raskolnikov “is not a hopeless scoundrel... At least, he didn’t fool himself for a long time, and at once reached the last pillars.” According to Porfiry Petrovich, Raskolnikov is one of those people who will endure any torment with a smile, if only they find “faith or God.” We must surrender to life without reasoning - “it will take you straight to the shore and put you on your feet.” Since Raskolnikov has already taken such a step, he should not be afraid now, he must do what justice requires. Answering Raskolnikov’s question, the investigator says that he will arrest him in two days. He knows that Raskolnikov will not run away. “You can’t do without us,” he tells him. Porfiry Petrovich is sure that Raskolnikov will admit everything anyway, “he will decide to accept suffering.” Well, if Raskolnikov decides to commit suicide, then let him leave a detailed note. He will tell you about the stone under which he hid the loot. After the investigator leaves, Raskolnikov hurries to Svidrigailov, not knowing why. He heard everything - so did he go to Porfiry Petrovich or is he still planning to go? Maybe it won't work at all? Raskolnikov cannot understand Svidrigailov. What if he has plans for Dunya and is going to use what he learned about him, Raskolnikov, for this purpose? The meeting takes place in a tavern. Raskolnikov threatens to kill Svidrigailov if he intends to pursue his sister. He says that he came to St. Petersburg “more about women.” Svidrigailov considers debauchery to be an occupation no worse than others - in it, in his opinion, “there is something permanent, based even on nature and not subject to fantasy...”. This is a disease, yes, if you do not observe the measure. But otherwise the only thing left to do would be to shoot himself. “Well, the abomination of this whole situation no longer affects you? Or have you lost the strength to stop?” - asks Raskolnikov. Svidrigailov responds by calling him an idealist. He tells the story of his life. Marfa Petrovna bought him out of debtor's prison. “Do you know to what degree of stupor a woman can sometimes fall in love?” Marfa Petrovna was much older than Svidrigailov and suffered from some kind of illness. Svidrigailov did not promise her fidelity. They agreed: 1. Svidrigailov will never leave his wife. 2. He won’t go anywhere without her permission. 3. He will never have a permanent mistress. 4. You can sometimes have relationships with maids, but only with the knowledge of your wife. 5. Under no circumstances will he fall in love with a woman from his own class. 6. If he falls in love, he must open up to Marfa Petrovna. They had quarrels, but everything worked out until Dunya appeared. Marfa Petrovna herself took her as a governess and loved her very much. Svidrigailov, as soon as he saw Avdotya Romanovna, realized that things were bad, and tried not to look at her and not to respond to his wife’s enthusiastic words about this beauty. Marfa Petrovna did not fail to tell Duna “all the ins and outs” of her husband, did not hide family secrets from her and constantly complained to her about him. Dunya finally felt sorry for Svidrigailov as a lost man. Well, in such cases, the girl “will certainly want to “save” and bring her to her senses and resurrect... and revive her to a new life...”. Moreover, Dunya “she herself only yearns for this... to quickly accept some kind of torment for someone...”. At the same time, she is “chaste, perhaps to the point of illness.” And just then a girl, Parasha, was brought to the estate, pretty, but stupid. Svidrigailov's harassment of her ended in a scandal. Dunya demanded that he leave Parasha alone. Svidrigailov pretended to be ashamed, blamed everything on his fate, and began to flatter Dunya. But she did not succumb to flattery, Svidrigailova figured it out. Then he began to mock Dunya’s efforts to “resurrect” him, and went all out with Parasha, and not only with her. They quarreled. What did Svidrigailov do? He, knowing Dunya’s poverty, offered her all his money so that she would run away with him to St. Petersburg. He was madly in love with Dunya. As soon as he told her: kill or poison Marfa Petrovna and marry me, he would have done it immediately. But it all ended in disaster. Svidrigailov was infuriated to learn that Marfa Petrovna “got on with that vile clerk, Luzhin, and almost staged a wedding, which, in essence, would have been the same thing” as what Svidrigailov proposed. Raskolnikov suggests that Svidrigailov has not yet given up the idea of ​​getting Dunya. He informs him that he is going to marry a sixteen-year-old girl from a poor family. Next, Svidrigailov tells how, having arrived in St. Petersburg, he hurried to the dirty dens that he remembered while living on the estate. And so, at one dance evening, he saw a girl of about thirteen. Her mother explained that they had come to St. Petersburg to work on some business, were poor, and had ended up attending this evening by mistake. Svidrigailov began helping them with money and still keeps in touch with them. Svidrigailov, with a worried, gloomy look, headed towards the exit of the tavern. Raskolnikov followed, fearing that he might go to Duna. He declares to Svidrigailov that he is going to Sonya to apologize for not being at the funeral, but he says that she is not at home now - she has a meeting with the owner of the orphanage where he placed Katerina Ivanovna’s children. We are talking about the conversation between Raskolnikov and Sonya that Svidrigailov overheard. Raskolnikov believes that listening at the door is dishonorable, to which Svidrigailov responds: “If. .. we are convinced that you can’t eavesdrop at the door, and you can peel old ladies with whatever you like, for your pleasure, so go somewhere as soon as possible to America!” He offers Raskolnikov money for the journey. As for moral questions, we must discard them, otherwise “there was no need to meddle; there’s no point in minding your own business.” Or let Raskolnikov shoot himself. Filled with disgust for Svidrigailov, Raskolnikov breaks up with him. He, having taken a cab (he was supposedly going to go to the islands for a spree), soon lets him go. Raskolnikov stops thoughtfully on the bridge. Dunya approaches him, whom he passed by without noticing her. Dunya hesitates whether to call out to her brother, and then notices Svid-Rigailov approaching. He, stopping at a distance so that Raskolnikov would not notice him, beckons Dunya with signs. She comes up. Svidrigailov asks her to go with him - she must listen to Sonya, and he will show her some documents. He knows her brother's secret. They go to Sonya, who is not at home. The conversation continues in Svidrigailov’s room. Dunya puts what she received on the table. she receives a letter from Svidrigailov, in which he hints at a crime committed by her brother, and tells him that she does not believe in it. Then why did she come here? Svidrigailov informs Duna about Raskolnikov’s conversation with Sonya, that it was he, her brother, who killed the old woman and Lizaveta. He took money and things, but did not use them. Raskolnikov killed according to the theory according to which people are divided into material and into special people for whom the law is not written. Raskolnikov imagined that he, too, was a genius, and now he suffers because he invented a theory, but could not step beyond it, therefore, he is not a genius. Dunya wants to see Sonya. Svidrigailov volunteers to save Raskolnikov and take him abroad. Everything depends on Dunya, who must stay with him, Svidrigailov. Dunya demands that Svidrigailov unlock the door and let her out. She takes a revolver out of her pocket. Let only Svidrigailov dare to approach her - she will kill him! Svidrigailov mocks Dunya. Dunya shoots, the bullet, gliding through Svidrigailov’s hair, hits the wall. Svidrigailov advances on Dunya. She shoots again - it misfires. Dunya throws the revolver. Svidrigailov hugs her, Dunya begs to let her go. “So you don’t like me?” - asks Svidrigailov. Dunya shakes her head negatively. "Never?" - he whispers. "Never!" - Dunya answers. He gives her the key. Svidrigailov notices the revolver, puts it in his pocket and leaves. He spends the evening moving from one hot spot to another, then goes to Sonya. Svidrigailov tells her that maybe he will go to America, gives her receipts for the money he left to the children, and gives Sonya herself three thousand rubles. To Sonya’s objections, he replies: “Rodion Romanovich has two roads: either a bullet in the forehead, or in Vladimirka...” Sonya will probably go to hard labor with him, which means she will need money. Svidrigailov asks to convey his regards to Raskolnikov and Razumikhin and leaves into the rain. Later, he appears at his fiancee’s place, tells her that he must leave urgently and gives her a large sum of money. Then he wanders the streets and, somewhere on the outskirts, rents a room in a squalid hotel. He lies on the bed and thinks about Duna, about the suicidal girl, then jumps up and goes to the window, then wanders along the corridor, where he notices a crying girl of about five, soaked in the rain. Svidrigailov takes her to his room and puts her on the bed. He tries to leave, but he feels sorry for the girl. And suddenly he sees that the girl is not sleeping, she is winking at him slyly, there is shamelessness in her eyes, she is stretching her hands towards him... Svidrigailov screams in horror... and wakes up. The girl is sleeping. Svidrigailov leaves. He stops at the fire tower and shoots himself in front of the fireman (there will be an official witness). In the evening of the same day, Raskolnikov comes to his mother and sister. Dunya is not at home. Pulcheria Alexandrovna starts talking about Rodion’s article, which she is reading for the third time, but does not understand much. She believes that Rodion will soon become famous. Rodion says goodbye to his mother. “I will never stop loving you,” he tells her. “I see from everything that great grief is in store for you,” says the mother. The son tells his mother that he is leaving and asks his mother to pray for him. Raskolnikov goes home, Dunya is waiting for him there. He tells her: “If I considered myself strong until now, then let me not be afraid of shame now. I’m going to betray myself now.” “Aren’t you, by going to suffer, already washing away half your crime?” - asks Dunya. Raskolnikov flies into a rage: “What crime? The fact that I killed a nasty, malicious louse, an old pawnbroker, useless to anyone... who sucked the juice out of the poor, and this is a crime? I don’t think about it and I don’t think about washing it off.” “But you shed blood!” - Dunya shouts. “Which everyone pours,” he picked up almost in a frenzy, “which flows and has always flowed in the world like a waterfall... for which they are crowned in the Capitol and then called the benefactor of humanity... I myself wanted good for people and would do hundreds , thousands of good deeds instead of this one stupidity... since this whole idea was not at all as stupid as it now seems, with failure. .. I wanted... to take the first step, to achieve the means, and then everything would be smoothed over with immeasurable... benefits... I don’t understand: why hitting people with bombs, a proper siege, is a more respectable form? ...I don’t understand my crime!” But seeing the torment in his sister’s eyes, Rodion comes to his senses. He asks Dunya to take care of his mother and not cry for him: he will try “to be both courageous and honest, all his life,” even though he is a murderer. Raskolnikov walks down the street thoughtfully. “Why do they love menl so much if I’m not worth it! Oh, if I were alone and no one loved me, and I myself would never love anyone! All this wouldn’t exist*, he thinks. Will his soul reconcile himself in the next fifteen to twenty years? “Why live after this, why am I going now, when I myself know that all this will be exactly like this... and not otherwise!” Evening had already come when Raskolnikov appeared at Sonya’s. She waited for him in excitement all day. In the morning Dunya came to her and they talked for a long time about Rodion. Dunya, who could not sit still from anxiety, went to her brother’s apartment - it seemed to her that he would come there. And so, when Sonya almost believed in Raskolnikov’s suicide, he entered her room. “I’m behind your crosses... You yourself sent me to the crossroads!..” - Raskolnikov tells her. He is extremely excited, cannot concentrate on anything, his hands are shaking. Sonya puts a cypress cross on his chest. Lizavetin, copper, she keeps for herself. “Cross yourself, pray at least once,” Sonya asks. Raskolnikov is baptized. Sonya throws a scarf over her head - she wants to go with him. On the way, Raskolnikov remembers Sonya's words about the crossroads. “He trembled all over, remembering this. And he was so overwhelmed by the hopeless melancholy and anxiety of this time... that he rushed into the possibility of this whole, new, complete sensation. It suddenly came to him like a fit: it ignited in his soul with one spark and suddenly, like fire, it engulfed everyone. Everything in him softened at once, and tears flowed. As he stood, he fell to the ground... He knelt down in the middle of the square, bowed to the ground and kissed this dirty earth, with pleasure and with

IN PART. He stood up and bowed another time.” They laugh at him. He notices Sonya, who is secretly following him. Raskolnikov goes to the police station, where he learns about Svidrigailov’s suicide. Raskolnikov, shocked, goes out into the street, where he runs into Sonya. With a lost smile, he turns back and confesses to the murder.

EPILOGUE “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. Almost a year and a half has passed since his crime.” At the trial, Raskolnikov did not hide anything. The fact that he hid his wallet and things under a stone, without using them and without even knowing what and how much he had stolen, how much money was in the wallet, amazed the investigator and the judges. From this they concluded that the crime “occurred during some temporary insanity.” “The criminal not only did not want to justify himself, but even seemed to express a desire to accuse himself even more.” A sincere confession and everything said above contributed to the mitigation of the sentence. In addition, other circumstances favorable to the defendant were adopted: while studying at the university, he supported a consumptive comrade from his last means, and after his death he looked after his sick father, placed him in a hospital, and after his “392 death, he buried him. Raskolnikov's landlady reported at the trial that Raskolnikov once saved two small children from a fire. In a word, the criminal was sentenced to only eight years of hard labor. Pulcheria Alexandrovna, whom everyone assured that her son had gone somewhere abroad, nevertheless feels something sinister in her soul and lives only in anticipation of a letter from Rodion. Her mind becomes clouded, and soon she dies. Dunya marries Razumikhin, inviting Porfiry Petrovich and Zosimov to the wedding. Razumikhin resumed his studies at the university and was determined to move to Siberia in a few years, for which he was forced to confess.” He is also tormented by the thought of why he didn’t commit suicide? Everyone doesn’t like him and avoids him, then they hate him. “You are a master! - they told him... - You are an atheist! ...We need to kill you.” Raskolnikov is silent. He is surprised by one thing: why did everyone fall in love with Sonya so much? Raskolnikov is admitted to the hospital. In his delirium, he imagines that the world is about to perish due to some unprecedented disease. Only a select few will survive. People affected by the microbe go crazy and consider any thought, any belief, to be the ultimate truth. Everyone believes that the truth lies in him alone. Nobody knows what is good and what is evil. There is a war of all against all. Everything is dying. Throughout Raskolnikov’s illness, Sonya is on duty under his windows, and one day Raskolnikov accidentally saw her through the window. Sonya did not come for two days. Raskolnikov, returning to the prison, learns that she is sick and lying at home. Sonya tells him in a note that she will soon recover and will come to see him. “When he read this note, his heart beat strongly and painfully.” The next day, when Raskolnikov was working on the firing of a kiln by the river, Sonya approaches him and timidly extends her hand to him. “But suddenly something seemed to pick him up and seem to throw him at her feet. He cried and hugged her knees...” Sonya understands that Raskolnikov loves her. “Both were pale and thin; but in these sick and pale faces the dawn of a renewed future, a complete resurrection into a new life, was already shining.” They decide to wait and be patient. There are still seven years left. “But he was resurrected - and he knew it, he felt it with his entire being renewed...” In the evening, lying on his bunk, he takes out from under the pillow the Gospel brought by Sonya.

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

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

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

Then he adds:

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

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

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

Porfiry Petrovich asks him a question:

“And would you dare to step over?”

"It may very well be"

Raskolnikov answers him.

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

Chapter 6

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Crime and Punishment” by F.M. Dostoevsky is a voluminous classic work that raises questions about the moral nature of man, his relationships with the outside world, the presence of moral values ​​and norms.

At the end of the story about the life of Rodion Raskolnikov, the idea is conveyed that no ideas can justify the murder of a person. This is exactly what is reflected in the article with the briefest summary of the great novel.

You can read the summary of the chapters and parts of the novel “Crime and Punishment”.

Part 1

1. Student Rodion Raskolnikov owes his landlady a large sum of money for housing. In order to find funds to pay the debt, Raskolnikov decides to kill the old woman, pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna.

   He is pondering the “mysterious matter”, trying to answer the question “Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right?” Taking things with him for collateral, Raskolnikov goes up to the old woman’s apartment and carefully looks around, trying to remember the situation.

   Tormented by the thoughts that what he had planned was “dirty and disgusting,” the young man goes to the tavern.

2. The official Marmeladov becomes Raskolnikov's drinking companion. He complains to the student about his situation, but clarifies that “poverty is not a vice,” but poverty is “poverty is a vice, sir,” for which “one is kicked out of society with a broom.”

   The official talks about his family life - about his wife, who has three children from a previous marriage and married Marmeladov out of desperation, and about his own daughter Sonechka, who is forced to earn money at the panel due to lack of livelihood.

   Marmeladov gets drunk, and Rodion takes him home, where he becomes an involuntary witness to a family scandal.

3. Raskolnikov is in his room, a “tiny cell”, where he reads a letter from his mother. In it, a woman complains that Rodion’s sister Dunya was groundlessly insulted and fired by Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova, for whom she worked as a governess.

   However, after Arkady Svidrigailov’s honest confession to his wife, the former mistress apologized to Dunya and introduced her to everyone as an honest and prudent girl. This story attracted the attention of adviser Pyotr Luzhin, who wooed Duna.

   There is no love between them, and the age difference is great (Luzhin is 45 years old), but the fact that he has “a small capital” decides the matter. The mother writes that she will soon arrive with Dunya in St. Petersburg to prepare for the wedding.

4. His mother's letter makes a strong impression on Rodion. He wanders aimlessly through the streets, thinking about the fate of his sister. He understands that the reason for the marriage is only the plight of his relatives and is looking for ways to help Duna.

   His thoughts again lead him to the idea of ​​​​killing the pawnbroker. While walking, a student sees a disgusting scene - a young drunk girl is being accosted by some boor.

   Raskolnikov stands up for her, but he is haunted by the thought that such a fate awaits many poor girls. The student goes to his university friend Razumikhin for advice and help.

5. Razumikhin promises to help Raskolnikov find private lessons. But Rodion decides to do this later, “when it’s already over and when everything goes in a new way.”

   On the way home, the young man stops at a tavern to have a snack and drink a glass of vodka, because of which he gets drunk and falls asleep right on the street under a bush. The following describes “Raskolnikov’s Dream about a Horse.”

   Waking up in a cold sweat, the student decides that he is not ready to kill - this was once again proven by his nightmare. But on the way he meets Lizaveta, Alena Ivanovna’s unhealthy sister, with whom they live together.

   Raskolnikov hears Lizaveta being called to visit and understands that tomorrow she will not be at home. This leads him to the idea that the opportune moment is coming to carry out his “secret business” and that “everything has suddenly been finally decided.”

6. The chapter tells the story of Raskolnikov's acquaintance with a pawnbroker. His friend Pokorev once gave him the old woman’s address in case he needed to pawn something for money.

   From the very first meeting, the pawnbroker disgusts Raskolnikov, because she makes money from people in trouble. Moreover, he learns about the old woman’s unfair attitude towards her sister, who is not of sound mind.

   Sitting in a tavern, a student overhears a conversation where one of the strangers declares that he is ready to kill the “old witch,” but not because of profit, but “because of justice,” and that such people are unworthy to live on earth.

   Returning to his closet, Rodion ponders his decision and falls asleep. In the morning he gets up with full readiness to fulfill his plans. The young man sews a loop to the inside of his coat so that he can hide the ax.

   He steals the ax itself from the janitor's room. He takes out a hidden “pledge”, which should become a pretext for going to the old woman, and resolutely sets off on his way.

7. Raskolnikov at the old woman's house. The pawnbroker, suspecting nothing, tries to examine the cigarette box that the student brought for the mortgage and stands closer to the light, with her back to her killer. At this time, Raskolnikov picks up an ax and hits her on the head with it.

   The old woman falls, and the student searches the pockets of her clothes. He takes out the keys to the chest in the bedroom, opens it and begins to collect "riches", filling the pockets of his jacket and coat. Suddenly Lizaveta returns. Raskolnikov, without hesitation, rushes at her with an ax.

   Only after this the young man is overcome with horror at what he has done. He tries to destroy the traces, washes off the blood, but hears someone approaching the apartment. The doorbell rings. Raskolnikov does not answer. Those who come realize that something has happened to the old woman and go after the janitor.

   After waiting until there is no one left on the stairs, Raskolnikov heads home, where he leaves the ax in the same place, and he throws himself on the bed and falls into unconsciousness.

Part 2

• Only at three o'clock in the afternoon does Raskolnikov come to his senses. He is close to madness. Noticing that drops of blood remained on him, Rodion washes his soiled boot and meticulously examines himself. After that, he hides the stolen things and falls asleep again.

  He is awakened by the janitor's knock on the door - the young man is called to the police. Panicked by the expectation of being charged with murder, the student goes to the department, but it turns out that he was called in following a complaint from his landlady because of a debt for housing.

  At this time, a conversation takes place nearby about the murder of a pawnbroker. Hearing the details, Rodion faints.

• Returning home, Raskolnikov decides to get rid of the old woman’s jewelry, “loads his pockets with them” and goes towards the Neva. However, fearing witnesses, he does not throw them into the water, but finds a remote yard and hides everything under a stone.

  At the same time, the young man does not take a penny from his wallet, considering it “disgusting.” Raskolnikov goes to visit Razumikhin. He notices that his friend is sick, is in an excited state and offers help.

  But Rodion refuses and returns home in delirium, almost getting run over by a stroller.

• After spending several days in delirium, Rodion comes to his senses and sees in his room Razumikhin, the landlady’s cook Nastasya and an unfamiliar guy in a caftan. The guy turns out to be an artel worker who brought a transfer from his mother - 35 rubles.

  Razumikhin says that during Raskolnikov’s illness, medical student Zosimov examined him, but found nothing serious. The young man worries whether he said something unnecessary in his delirium and forces his friend to retell his statements.

  Realizing that no one guessed anything, Raskolnikov falls asleep again, and Razumikhin decides to buy new clothes for his friend with the money received.

• Zosimov comes for the next examination of the patient. During the visit, the conversation turns to the murder of an old woman and her sister. Raskolnikov reacts very badly to these conversations, but tries to hide it by turning to the wall.

  Meanwhile, it turns out that the dyer Nikolai, who was working on the renovation of a neighbor’s apartment, has been arrested. He brought gold earrings from the old woman’s chest for payment to the tavern.

  Nikolai is detained on suspicion of murdering a pawnbroker, but the police have no reliable evidence.

• Luzhin, the fiancé of Dunya’s sister, comes to visit Rodion. Raskolnikov reproaches the man for wanting to take advantage of the girl’s plight and forcibly marrying her to himself.

  Luzhin is trying to justify himself. During the conversation, the topic of crime comes up. There is a quarrel. Luzhin leaves, and his friends notice that Rodion doesn’t really care about anything, “except for one point that makes him lose his temper: murder...”.

• Left alone, Raskolnikov decides to go outside. Having put on a new dress, the young man wanders the streets, enters a tavern and meets Zametov there, a clerk at the police station who was present when Rodion fainted.

  Raskolnikov behaves very strangely, laughs, grimaces and almost directly admits to killing the old woman. Leaving the tavern, the student continues his aimless walk around the city.

  Without noticing it, the young man approaches the old woman’s house, where he begins to talk about what happened and leaves only after the janitor shouts.

• Raskolnikov sees a crowd - a horse has crushed a man. Rodion recognizes the old Marmeladov in the victim. Finding himself at the official’s house, Raskolnikov sends for the doctor and meets Sonechka.

  The doctor cannot help and, after asking his daughter for forgiveness, Marmeladov dies. Raskolnikov gives the widow all the remaining money and returns home, where he is met by his mother and sister who have come to visit. At the sight of them, the young man loses consciousness.

Part 3

1. The mother, concerned about her son's condition, wants to stay to care for him. But Rodion does not allow it and begins to persuade Dunya not to marry Luzhin.

   Razumikhin, who was visiting all this time, was captivated by Dunya’s beauty and grace. He promises good care for their son and brother and persuades the women to return to the hotel.

2. Razumikhin cannot forget Dunya and goes to their rooms. During his visit, the conversation turns to Luzhin. The mother shows a letter in which the future groom asks for a meeting, insisting that Rodion will not be there.

   Luzhin also complains that he gave all the money to his mother Sonechka Marmeladova, “a girl of notorious behavior.” The women, together with Razumikhin, go to Raskolnikov.

3. The young man feels better. He himself tells the story of the deceased Marmeladov and his daughter, and his mother shows him Luzhin’s letter.

   Rodion is offended by this attitude of Pyotr Petrovich, but he advises his relatives to act according to their own understanding. Dunya admits her sympathy for Razumikhin and insists on his and his brother’s presence at the meeting with Luzhin.

4. Sonya Marmeladova comes to Raskolnikov’s room to thank him for his help and invite him to her father’s funeral. Mother and Dunya meet a girl. Sonya looks pitiful and feels embarrassed.

   Raskolnikov agrees to come and offers to take the girl home. All this is observed by an unfamiliar man, who turns out to be her neighbor Svidrigailov. Raskolnikov returns home and, together with Razumikhin, goes to investigator Porfiry Petrovich.

   His friends want to find out about the fate of Razumikhin’s silver watch, which was pawned by the murdered old woman. Raskolnikov, knowing full well where the clock is, again falls into nervous excitement, laughs loudly and behaves strangely.

5. Friends find Zosimov at the investigator's place. He is embarrassed by something and looks at Raskolnikov in confusion. During the conversation, it turns out that Rodion is also among the suspects, since he was a client of the pawnbroker.

   The investigator is trying to find out when Rodion last visited the old woman’s apartment. Razumikhin replies that he was with her three days ago and her friends are leaving. “Raskolnikov took a deep breath...”

6. Returning home, the friends discuss the meeting with the investigator and his accusations against Rodion. Razumikhin is outraged. Raskolnikov understands that Porfiry is “not so stupid.” After parting, Razumikhin went to Duna’s hotel, and Rodion went home.

   He decides to check whether he hid everything and whether there is anything left of the stolen things. Near the house he meets a stranger who suddenly shouts “Murderer!” in his face. and hides.

   Raskolnikov goes up to the room, where he begins to reflect on what he has done and falls ill again. Waking up, he finds a man in the room who introduces himself to him as Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov.

Part 4

1. Svidrigailov talks about the death of his wife, and that she bequeathed three thousand to Duna.

   Arkady Ivanovich asks Raskolnikov to help him meet with his sister, since he wants to offer her his hand and compensation for the unrest caused. Raskolnikov refuses the request, and Svidrigailov leaves.

2. Raskolnikov and Razumikhin go to a meeting at the hotel. Luzhin also arrives there. He is outraged that the women did not listen to his request, refuses to discuss the wedding in front of Rodion and reproaches Dunya for ingratitude.

   The conversation also turns to Svidrigailov. Luzhin tells an ugly story in which a young girl died because of him. He calls Svidrigailov “the most depraved and lost in vices of all people of this kind.”

   Afterwards, the conversation turns again to Duna, whom Luzhin forces to choose between herself and her brother. They quarrel and Luzhin leaves.

3. After Luzhin leaves, everyone is in high spirits. Razumikhin is frankly happy and is already making plans for a happy life together with Dunya, especially since she now has funds.

   Dunya doesn't mind. Rodion will forgive his friend to look after his mother and sister and goes to Sonechka.

4. Sonya lives very poorly, but Rodion notices the “New Testament” on the table in her room. The girl and the boy talk about the future that awaits Sonya. Her self-sacrifice, meek disposition and faith in goodness amaze Raskolnikov so much that he bows at her feet.

   The act confuses the girl, but Rodion explains that “I bowed to all human suffering.” Before leaving, Raskolnikov promises to talk about the murder of the old woman next time. Svidrigailov hears these words.

5. In the morning, Raskolnikov heads to the police station and demands a meeting with Porfiry Petrovich - he wants to return his things, which were pledged to the old woman.

   The investigator again tries to interrogate the young man, which infuriates him. Raskolnikov demands that the persecution of him be stopped or evidence of his guilt be presented.

6. A strange man comes into the office. This is the dyer Nikolai. It is clear that he is exhausted and intimidated and immediately admits to the murder of Alena Ivanovna and Lizaveta. Raskolnikov decides to go to the Marmeladovs' funeral.

Part 5

• Luzhin is angry with Rodion and blames him for disrupting the wedding. His pride is wounded, and he decides to take revenge on the young man at any cost.

  Through his neighbor Lebezyatnikov, Luzhin meets Sonechka and offers her money - a chervonets. While his plan is unclear, it is clear that he is up to something vile.

• Katerina Ivanovna's wake was turbulent. The widow quarreled with the landlady over “wrong guests” and she demands that the Marmeladovs move out of the apartment. During the quarrel, Luzhin appears.
• Pyotr Petrovich declares that Sonechka stole a hundred rubles from him and his neighbor Lebezyatnikov will testify to this. The girl is embarrassed and shows the money, trying to explain that Luzhin himself gave her the money and not a hundred, but only ten rubles.

  However, the girl is searched and a hundred dollar note is found in her pocket. A scandal breaks out. Lebezyatnikov assures that Luzhin himself slipped the bill to the girl, the widow cries, Luzhin is angry, the landlady demands the immediate vacation of the apartment.

  Raskolnikov explains Luzhin's action with a desire to quarrel with his mother and sister and, thereby, force Dunya to marry him.

• Raskolnikov is torn between the desire to open up to Sonya and the fear of punishment. In the end, he says that he knows the killer and that everything happened by accident.

  The girl guesses everything, but promises never to leave Raskolnikov and, if necessary, even to follow him to hard labor. Sonya says that Rodion needs to “accept suffering and atone for himself with it” - that is, admit everything. At this time there is a knock on the door.

• This is Lebezyatnikov. He says that Katerina Ivanovna was refused help, she is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and is going to beg on the street with her children. Everyone runs out into the street, where they find the widow in an excited state.

  She does not listen to anyone's persuasion, screams, runs and, in the end, falls with a throat bleed. Katerina Ivanovna is taken to Sonechka’s room, where she dies. Svidrigailov promises custody of the orphaned children, and admits to Rodion that he overheard his conversation with Sonya.

Part 6

1. Raskolnikov understands that a catastrophe is approaching. His whole life passes in a fog. Katerina Ivanovna was buried, Svidrigailov kept his word and paid for everything. Razumikhin asks Rodion to explain himself about his relationship with his mother and sister, but he lives only with thoughts of his exposure.
2. The investigator pays a visit to Raskolnikov. He directly states that he suspects the young man of murder, but gives him a chance to confess. It turns out that it was at the instigation of Porfiry Petrovich that the stranger shouted “Murderer!” in Raskolnikov’s face.

   The investigator wanted to test the suspect's reaction. When leaving, Porfiry gives him two days to think.

3. Raskolnikov meets with Svidrigailov in a tavern. The conversation turns to Svidrigailov’s late wife, Duna, and the fact that he already has another – a young girl, almost a teenager.

   Arkady Ivanovich immediately boasts of his relationship with another girl, which causes bewilderment and disgust in Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov decides to follow Svidrigailov.

4. Having caught up with Arkady, Raskolnikov finds out that he was listening at Sonechka’s door and knows who the killer is. Svidrigailov advises Rodion to run away and even offers him money for the journey. They break up. On the street, Svidrigailov meets Dunya and calls her over under the pretext of telling her something interesting.

   Entering the apartment, Arkady directly tells Duna that her brother is a murderer, but he can save him in exchange for love and relationships. Avdotya does not believe Svidrigailov and tries to leave.

   He intimidates the girl and locks the room. Dunya takes out a pistol and shoots the man. There is a misfire, Svidrigailov gives the girl the key, takes her revolver and leaves.

5. Svidrigailov spent the whole night in taverns, and in the morning he showed up to Sonechka. He gives the girl three thousand rubles so that she can arrange her life and says that now Raskolnikov either has to die or go to hard labor.

   Sonechka takes the money and asks Arkady not to talk about his suspicions. Svidrigailov goes to a hotel, drinks and falls into a semi-delirious state, where he sees a girl who committed suicide through his fault and the rest of the unfortunate people whom he corrupted.

   Arkady wakes up, goes outside and shoots himself with Dunya’s pistol.

6. Raskolnikov visits his sister and mother, asks for their forgiveness, confesses his love and says goodbye to them. Dunya agrees that he needs to confess to the murder and thereby “wash away the sin.”

   However, Rodion does not believe that he committed a crime, since he acted fairly. Raskolnikov asks his sister not to leave her mother and be with Razumikhin and leaves.

7. Sonya waits for Rodion all day, worrying that he might do something to himself. In the evening the young man comes to her. He asks for a pectoral cross and Sonechka puts her simple, rustic cross around his neck. She plans to accompany him on his journey.

   However, Raskolnikov does not want this and goes alone. He goes to the crossroads, mixes with the crowd, falls to the ground, cries and kisses her, as Sonya advised him. After this, the young man goes to the police station and confesses to the double murder.

Epilogue