A brief retelling of the first part of Crime and Punishment. Retelling of the novel Crime and Punishment (detailed retelling). "Crime and Punishment"

All of Dostoevsky's novels and stories are based on the experiences of the human soul. He doesn't care what the hero does. It matters to him what he thinks and what he says. All the author’s works contain long dialogues and monologues. And it is very difficult to retell their brief content. Dostoevsky (“Crime and Punishment” helps to verify this) is considered a brilliant writer. And for good reason: he looks deep into the human soul.

Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”: a summary of the first part

Rodion Raskolnikov is the main character of this novel. Poor, dressed in rags. Lives in an apartment. Rather, it’s a wretched little room, but there’s nothing to pay for it either. Several months have already passed since Rodion left the university.

The young man has a serious, nervous condition. A plan emerges in his head, which he mentally prepares for implementation. He decided to kill the old money-lender.

One evening Rodion meets Marmeladov. He talks about the bitter fate of his family. About the fact that Sonya’s daughter had to go to the panel because she had nothing to feed the younger children.

Then Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother, which greatly upsets him. He goes to see Razumikhin, a university friend. On the way he meets a drunk girl, whom a gentleman with “dirty” intentions is about to approach. Rodion sends her home.

And for himself he suddenly decides that he will go to Razumikhin after his idea is finished. At home, he quickly prepares for a crime. However, during a visit to the pawnbroker, it was necessary to kill not only her, but also Lisa, the old woman’s younger sister.

Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”: a summary of the second part

Early morning. Rodion wakes up in a nervous shiver. He remembers yesterday's murder, examines his clothes, trying to remove traces of blood. He hides the stolen items behind the torn wallpaper.

All further events occur as if in a dream. Raskolnikov is summoned to the police about non-payment of rent. He behaves unnaturally, too excited. Eventually, he loses consciousness.

Walking aimlessly around the city, he suddenly decides to commit suicide by jumping from a bridge. But then a woman throws herself off the bridge. A policeman saves her. Rodion rejects the thought of suicide.

He decides to go to the police. Suddenly a man gets run over by a horse. Raskolnikov recognizes Marmeladov and tries with all his might to help him. He feels relieved: the visit to the police is postponed.

Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”: a summary of the third part

Rodion demands from his sister that she refuse her fiancé, since he does not accept her sacrifices. It occurs to him to go with Razumikhin to the policeman. It is important to find out whether he is suspected of anything?

Going to dinner with his mother, Raskolnikov sees the janitor pointing at him to some tradesman. Rodion tries to find out what's wrong, but freezes in place. The tradesman clearly calls him a murderer.

Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”: a summary of the fourth part

Raskolnikov quarrels with his sister's fiance at dinner at his mother's. He accuses him of lying and sends him out. Rodion tells his sister that her former master Svidrigailov came to him. And that Svidrigailov’s wife left Duna three thousand rubles in her will.

After dinner, he says goodbye to his mother and sister and asks not to disturb him. And he himself goes to Sonya, Marmeladov’s daughter. They talk for a long time. Rodion believes that they are both “in the mud” and they need to move on together.

Parts five and six: summary. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

Luzhin invites Sonya to his place to give her ten rudders for the widow. And unnoticed, he slips a hundred rubles into her pocket. Then he appears at Marmeladov’s wake and accuses Sonya of theft.

A policeman comes to Raskolnikov. They talk for a long time. Porfiry Petrovich tells Raskolnikov that he knows who killed the old woman and Lizaveta, her sister. And this is exactly him - Raskolnikov. But the investigation has nothing against him.

Prisoner Raskolnikov has been in Siberia for nine months now. Sonya follows him, they see each other quite often. She writes about everything to Duna and Razumikhin, who became Dunya’s husband.

At the beginning of July, one poor young man (Rodion Raskolnikov) left his closet and headed to the K-nu bridge. He managed to avoid meeting the landlady, whose kitchen opened onto the stairs and whose door was constantly open. The young man was deeply indebted to the hostess and was afraid of meeting her.

It cannot be said that this young man was cowardly or downtrodden by poverty. For some time he had become so deeply involved in himself and secluded himself that he was afraid of any meeting, not just a meeting with his landlady. Despite his poverty, he has recently stopped taking care of daily affairs. This fear of meeting his hostess surprised him. After all, he has conceived such a thing, but he is afraid of trifles. As he descended, he wondered why people are usually most afraid only of a new step, a new word of their own.

It was terribly hot outside. The unbearable stench from the taverns, the crowd on the street and the abundance of drunks, despite it being a weekday, completed the color of the picture. The young man, as usual, fell into a kind of thoughtful oblivion and walked without noticing anything. For the second day he had eaten almost nothing and was therefore very weak. He was very poorly dressed. He walked not far, he even knew that it was only seven hundred and thirty steps. He went to make a test of his enterprise, his excitement was growing.

Finally, the young man approached a huge house, in which there were many small apartments inhabited by poor working people. Having passed unnoticed by the janitors, the young man found himself on a dark and narrow staircase. He met soldier porters carrying furniture out of the apartment. This means that only the old woman’s apartment remained occupied on the floor. The young man noted this and called the old woman’s apartment. The bell rang faintly, but the visitor shuddered as his nerves weakened. The old woman opened the door only after she was sure that there were a lot of people on the stairs. Her name was Alena Ivanovna. The old woman lived with her half-sister Lizaveta, a downtrodden poor girl who meekly served the old woman.

Raskolnikov brought his father’s silver watch to the old woman as a pawn. The pawnbroker reminded him that the old mortgage had already expired, but she still took the watch. The young man carefully watched the old woman, trying to remember what and with what key she unlocked. Without arguing about the price of the mortgage, Raskolnikov took the money and left.

The feeling of endless disgust, which arose on the way to the old woman, became so strong that he was attacked by severe melancholy. He walked without noticing the road. I only came to my senses near the tavern. He had never been in a tavern before, but now he was so thirsty that he had to enter. Here his attention was immediately attracted by one visitor, a man over 50 years old, of heavy build, of average height. His face was swollen from constant drinking. He was dressed very poorly, and there was something respectable and official in his manner. This visitor himself spoke to Raskolnikov: “Marmeladov, titular councilor.” He told the story of his family. His wife, Katerina Ivanovna, had three children in her first marriage. He himself has a daughter, Sonya, from his first marriage. Katerina Ivanovna’s first husband was an infantry officer, then he became addicted to cards, was put on trial and died. Marmeladov himself was an official, but then he lost his job and gradually became an alcoholic. Now he has fallen so low that he even drank away his wife’s last stockings; his daughter Sonya has a yellow ticket, lives separately from them and helps with money. Even now Marmeladov was drinking away his daughter’s last money.

Raskolnikov accompanied Marmeladov home, because he turned out to be much weaker in his legs than in his words. Seeing the poverty in which this family lived, the hungry children, the sick and exhausted Katerina Ivanovna, Raskolnikov quietly put all the remaining money on their window.

The next day he got up late, but sleep did not give him strength. With a feeling of disgust, he looked around his wretched, dirty room. He seemed to have distanced himself from everyone, and even the face of the maid, who occasionally visited his room, caused bile and convulsions in him. Nastasya was partly pleased with the guest’s mood and almost stopped visiting and cleaning his house. Today it was she who woke up Raskolnikov, bringing her own tea that she had slept on. The hostess stopped sending food to Raskolnikov a long time ago.

“Why aren’t you doing anything now?” - Nastasya reproached Raskolnikova. He replied that he was doing difficult work - he was thinking, but in the lessons you could only earn copper money. “Would you like all the capital at once?” - Nastasya laughed. “Yes, all the capital,” he answered firmly.

Then Nastasya remembered that Raskolnikov had received a letter, and ran after it. The letter was from my mother. She reported that Raskolnikov’s sister, Dunya, had left Svidrigailov, where she served as a governess. At first, the family treated her well, but then the owner began to persuade her to have an affair, taking advantage of the fact that Dunya took a large advance (Dunya took this money in order to send it to her brother). Dunya tried to reason with the owner, but one day his wife, Marfa Petrovna, heard their conversation, misunderstood everything and blamed Dunya for this story. The girl was immediately taken to her mother, and Marfa Petrovna talked about this in the city for a whole month. Mr. Svidrigailov, apparently coming to his senses, managed to convince his wife of the girl’s innocence by showing her letter to him. In it, she reminded him that he was the father of the family and he was ashamed to torture a defenseless girl. Dunya's innocence was confirmed by the servants. The ardent Marfa Petrovna repented, asked Dunya for forgiveness and again went around all the houses in the city, showing Dunya the letter and assuring everyone that she was a wonderful girl. Marfa Petrovna even matched Duna with a groom - Luzhin Pyotr Petrovich, a court councilor and her distant relative.

Despite his mother’s efforts to create a good impression of Luzhin, it was immediately clear that Pyotr Petrovich was stingy and rather limited. “It seems to be honest”, “somewhat vain”, “it seems to be kind” - these and other clauses in the mother’s letter immediately told Raskolnikov that his sister had decided to sacrifice herself for the sake of her brother’s future well-being. It followed from the letter that the mother and sister would soon come to St. Petersburg to visit Luzhin, who had left here earlier.

Reading the letter, Raskolnikov cried. He immediately decided that this marriage would not happen. But then he seemed to wake up. What can he do? After all, money is needed now, and not in ten years. He realized that he needed to decide on something.

In thought, Raskolnikov rushed about the streets of St. Petersburg. Suddenly his attention was attracted by a young girl walking in front of him, waving her arms. Taking a closer look, Raskolnikov realized that the girl was drunk, violated and kicked out into the street. And to the side, about fifteen paces behind the girl, was a gentleman who was clearly also not averse to taking advantage of her condition. Raskolnikov had a row with this fat dandy, and then a policeman appeared. Taking him aside, Raskolnikov explained the situation to the policeman and gave him money to look after the girl. He walked on, pondering the future fate of this unfortunate woman. It is clear that she will live eighteen to nineteen years. But no one cares. Society reassures itself that a certain percentage of people must go somewhere every year to refresh the rest.

Raskolnikov remembered that he was going to see Razumikhin, his university friend. He was a kind, sociable and cheerful guy. He was very intelligent. He could drink indefinitely, but he could not drink. No failures embarrassed him and no circumstances could ever weigh him down. Now he was forced to leave the university because of money, but tried his best to improve his circumstances in order to continue his studies.

Further, in part 1 of the novel “Crime and Punishment” by Dostoevsky, it is said that Rodion had a terrible dream. He, seven years old, walks with his father in his hometown. On the outskirts of the town they pass by a tavern that always frightened him - they were shouting, laughing, fighting, and there were scary, drunken faces all around. It’s like there’s a party in the tavern, a crowd of all sorts of rabble. Near the tavern there is a cart harnessed to an ordinary small Savras peasant mare. A drunk man comes out of a tavern and calls everyone to get into the cart, boasting that his mare will take everyone. The people laugh, but the man stands his ground. Everyone gets into the cart. The nag barely moves the cart from its place, and the man mercilessly beats it with a whip to make it move faster. The boy feels sorry for the mare, the father wants to take the child away, but he breaks free and runs to the filly. “Slap me to death!” - the man shouts in a drunken frenzy. Some stand up for the horse, but the man shouts: “My goodness! I do what I want! Slash me in the eyes!” The boy runs near the horse and sees how it is hit in the eyes. His heart rises, tears flow. So the poor horse was beaten to death. The boy throws his fists at Mikolka, the horse's owner. His father takes him away, saying that it is none of their business. Rodion woke up sweating. He thought that he would not dare to do what he had in mind. It was as if an abscess had broken out in his heart. He was free from these spells and obsessions. He went home. On the way, I heard a conversation between Lizaveta, the younger sister of the old pawnbroker, from which it became clear that tomorrow at 7 o’clock Lizaveta would not be at home and, therefore, the old woman would be completely alone in her apartment. Rodion suddenly felt that he was sentenced to death, that everything was finally decided.

Then he recalled how, at his first meeting with the old woman, he felt an insurmountable disgust for her. Taking “two tickets” from her for the ring, he went into the tavern. He heard a conversation between an officer and a student at a table nearby. The student told the officer about the old woman’s greed and stinginess, about the hard life of the meek and unrequited Lizaveta, whom many people like, despite her squalor. The student, first jokingly, and then more seriously, began to say that it was not a sin to kill such an evil old woman, especially since she bequeathed her money to the monastery. This tavern conversation made a strong impression on Raskolnikov.

Raskolnikov returned home and went to bed. Nastasya barely woke him up in the morning. He sent the servants away. I ate a little. Hearing the clock strike, it was as if he woke up and sewed a loop from the inside to the sleeve of his summer coat. It was an ax noose. Having finished with this, he pulled out a “pledge” he had prepared long ago - a wooden tablet the size of a cigarette case and a thin iron strip for weight. He wrapped all this in paper and tied it tightly so that the old woman would fiddle with the knot. Then he heard that it was already seven o'clock and rushed to the door. He intended to take the ax from the owner's kitchen, but Nastasya was there. Mechanically going downstairs, he stopped in thought in front of the gate. “What a lost opportunity!” - he thought with annoyance. Suddenly he shuddered. Something flashed from the janitor's closet. He tiptoed in and saw an ax, which he immediately fitted into the prepared loop.

Rising to the old woman’s apartment, Raskolnikov noticed that painters were working on the second floor, but they did not notice him. The apartment on the third floor was also apparently empty. The old woman did not answer the first call. He rang again louder and realized from a barely audible rustle that the old woman was standing in front of the door and listening, just like him. Raskolnikov rang the third time, and the old woman opened the door.

He walked straight at her, the old woman jumped back in fear. In response to alarming questions, he handed her the “mortgage.” She hesitated a little. Feeling that he was losing his composure, Raskolnikov told the old woman that he could take the mortgage to another place. The old woman began to untie the rope on the “pledge” and turned to the window towards the light. Raskolnikov released the ax, but did not yet pull it out from under his cloak. His hands were terribly weak and increasingly stiff. The knot did not unravel, and the old woman moved in his direction with annoyance. There was no more time to lose. Raskolnikov pulled out an ax, raised it with both hands and almost mechanically brought the butt down on his head. But as soon as he lowered the ax, strength was born within him.

The old woman screamed weakly and sank to the floor, managing to raise her hands to her head. He hit her several more times. Then Raskolnikov bent down to the old woman’s face - she was dead.

Raskolnikov put the ax down and reached into the old woman’s pocket, from which she had pulled out the keys the last time. He was completely sane, but his hands were still shaking. Then he remembered that he was attentive and careful, trying not to get dirty. Taking out the keys, he went into the bedroom. Approaching the chest of drawers, he began to pick up the key. The jingling of keys caused a spasm, he wanted to drop everything and leave. But it only lasted for a moment. Suddenly the thought occurred to him that the old woman might be alive and had woken up. He returned to the body, swung the ax, but did not lower it, because it was already clear that the old woman was dead. He saw that a lot of blood had flowed. Examining the wound, Raskolnikov bent over the body and noticed a cord on the neck. He carefully cut it with an ax, trying not to touch the body. Taking off the cord, he saw that there were two crosses on it, cypress and copper, an enamel icon and a small tightly stuffed wallet. Raskolnikov put the wallet in his pocket and threw the crosses on the old woman’s chest. Grabbing an ax, he went back to the bedroom.

Raskolnikov was in a hurry. He couldn't find the keys. Then he realized that the large key was apparently not from the chest of drawers, but from the box that the old woman kept under the bed. And so it turned out. Opening the bag, he saw that it was filled with things. Seeing the red set, Raskolnikov began to wipe his hands on it. As soon as he moved his things, a gold watch slid out from under his fur coat. It turned out that gold items were hidden between the rags, some were in cases, some were wrapped in newspaper. Raskolnikov stuffed all his pockets with these parcels. But I didn't have time to collect much...

In the room where the old woman lay, he heard footsteps. Raskolnikov froze. Everyone was quiet, and he decided that he had imagined it. Suddenly a soft scream was clearly heard. There was silence again. He sat frozen near the chest, but suddenly grabbed an ax and ran out of the bedroom. Lizaveta stood in the middle of the room. Seeing Raskolnikov, she trembled all over, raised her hand and slowly began to back away from him, looking intently into his eyes. He rushed at Lizaveta with an ax. Unhappy and downtrodden Lizaveta did not even raise her hand to defend herself. She collapsed.

Fear increasingly gripped Raskolnikov, especially after this second, unplanned murder. He wanted to get away from here as soon as possible. If he could now reason and understand all the difficulties of his situation, then he would give up everything and go to declare himself, and not even out of fear, but out of disgust for what was done. But a kind of absent-mindedness took possession of him. He paid attention to the little things, forgetting about the main thing. Walking into the kitchen, Raskolnikov saw a bucket of water there and began to wash the blood from his hands and the ax. Then he carefully dried everything with laundry, which was drying right there on the line. Having examined his dress and wiped his blood-stained boots, he stood thoughtfully in the middle of the room. He was tormented by the thought that he was going crazy, doing something wrong and would not be able to protect himself. “We must run,” he thought and rushed into the hallway. Here he saw with horror that the door had been open all this time. He rushed to the door and locked it, but immediately thought that he needed to run. Opening the door, he began to listen. Somewhere far away two voices were arguing. Finally, everything became quiet. He was about to go out, but then someone began to descend from above. He waited it out. I had already stepped onto the stairs, but someone began to climb up from below. For some reason, Raskolnikov immediately realized that it was here. Raskolnikov seemed petrified and rooted to the spot. Only when the guest was already on the fourth floor did he quickly slip into the apartment and close the door to the vestibule. Instinct helped him.

The guest walked to the door, caught his breath and rang the bell. The stranger waited a bit for an answer, then he called again and began impatiently tugging at the door handle. “Alena Ivanovna, old witch! Lizaveta Ivanovna, incredible beauty! Open!” It was clear that this man belonged in this house. At this time someone else came to the door. “Is there really no one?” - the person who approached asked cheerfully. “Hello, Koch!” The young man came to borrow money from the old woman, and Koch arranged a meeting with the old woman in advance. They began to discuss where the old woman, who always complained about her sore legs, could have gone, and then the young man noticed that the door was closed with a hook, that is, from the inside. The visitors realized that something was wrong here. The young man left Koch at the door and ran to get the janitor.

Raskolnikov stood outside the door, clutching an ax. Time passed, Koch tried the door again, then, abandoning his post, ran quickly downstairs. The steps died down, and Raskolnikov left the apartment. He had already gone down three flights of stairs when a noise was heard from the floor below. The two ran downstairs screaming into the yard. And then he heard several people going upstairs. In complete despair, Raskolnikov went to meet them. There was only one flight of space between them, and then Raskolnikov saw the open door of an empty apartment, which was being renovated. There was no one in the apartment; apparently, workers had recently run out screaming. Raskolnikov slipped through the open door and hid. A group of people went upstairs, and he, after waiting a little, ran downstairs. There was no one in the yard either. He left the yard, realizing that those people in the apartment had probably already realized that he was not far away, but he did not dare to increase his pace, and the excitement he had experienced weakened him. Sweat poured off him.

Raskolnikov came home not fully conscious. Just as he was climbing the stairs, he remembered the ax and went back to put it back in the janitor's room. Everything went well, there was no one there. Arriving at his place, he threw himself on the sofa and fell into oblivion. This is how part 1 of the novel “Crime and Punishment” ends.

Source (abbreviated): Big reference book: The whole Russian language. All Russian literature / I.N. Agekyan, N.M. Volchek and others - Mn.: Modern writer, 2003

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"Crime and Punishment"

Retelling

Part one

In 1865, former law student Rodion Raskolnikov was finally “crushed by poverty”; his closet resembles not an apartment, but a closet. The young man is tormented by painful and disturbing thoughts. He is thinking about some mysterious matter, and this thought has been tormenting his mind for a month and a half, the thought of killing the old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov goes to the pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna, gives her a watch in exchange for money and promises to soon bring him a cigarette case made of pure silver. The young man does not understand how the terrible thought of murder could come into his head, and he goes into the tavern.

In the tavern, Raskolnikov meets the titular adviser Marmeladov. From the speech of the drunken titular adviser, the young man learns that Marmeladov’s wife with three small children in her arms, Katerina Ivanovna, married a man out of despair, she simply had nowhere to go, but she is smart and educated. Marmeladov drinks away all the money. Once he entered the service, but could not stand it and started drinking again, even taking the last money from the house. Marmeladov’s daughter Sonya was forced to go to the panel in order to somehow provide for her family. Raskolnikov escorts his new acquaintance home, sees the poor furnishings of the room and leaves some change on their windowsill.

In the morning, Rodion reads a letter from his mother, from which he learns that his sister Dunya was slandered by the Svidrigailovs. The girl worked in their house as a governess, and the hostess's husband fell in love with her. When the owner Marfa Petrovna found out about this, she began to humiliate and insult Dunya.

Svidrigailov admitted that the governess was not guilty of anything. Forty-five-year-old Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, who has a small capital, wooed the girl. Further, Pulcheria Raskolnikova reports that they will soon come to Rodion in St. Petersburg, since Luzhin is in a hurry with the wedding and wants to open a law office in the city. The letter from home greatly touched the hero, and he ran out into the street.

Raskolnikov does not want his sister to become Luzhin's wife. He understands that his relatives agreed to this marriage only in order to end poverty and help Rodion. However, the hero understands that the poor student will not be able to equal the rich Luzhin. And again a thought that had been tormenting him for a long time creeps into his consciousness.

Rodion wants to go to his university friend Razumikhin and borrow money from him, but refuses this idea. A young man spends his last money on a piece of pie and a glass of vodka, after which he falls asleep in the bushes. He has a terrible dream in which men beat an old horse to death, and he is very small and cannot do anything. The boy kisses the dead nag and attacks the man with his fists. Waking up, Raskolnikov again thinks about murder and doubts that he will decide to commit it. At the market near Sennaya Square, the hero sees the old woman’s sister Lizaveta. From her conversation with the traders, he understands that the next day at seven in the evening the pawnbroker will be home alone. Rodion thinks that for him now “everything is finally decided.”

Raskolnikov considers it unfair that the old woman does not bring any benefit to society and at the same time owns a decent fortune. He is convinced that the death of an insignificant creature can save the lives of hundreds of other people in need. After spending the whole day in a state close to delirium, the student takes an ax from the janitor's room and goes to the old woman.

When Alena Ivanovna takes the cigarette case from Rodion and turns to face the window, the young man hits her on the head with the butt of an ax. When Raskolnikov goes to the pawnbroker's room, Lizaveta unexpectedly returns. The hero is confused and kills the old woman's sister. Having pulled himself together, the young man washes his hands and the ax, and locks the door, which turned out to be open. Clients come to the pawnbroker. The student waits for them to leave and leaves the apartment, hiding in an empty room on the floor below.

Part two

Raskolnikov sleeps until three o'clock in the afternoon and remembers, when he wakes up, that he did not hide the things he took from Alena Ivanovna. He goes through them, washes blood stains from things. Nastasya gives the hero a summons brought from the police office by the police officer. When the student comes to the police station, it turns out that the owner of the apartment, through law enforcement agencies, is demanding payment for housing from him. The warden takes a receipt from the young man with an obligation to repay the debt. When Rodion is about to leave, he hears a police dialogue about the murder of a pawnbroker and faints. Everyone decides that he is sick and sends him home.

Raskolnikov fears a search and decides to get rid of his victim's belongings. He walks around the city, but cannot do this, since everywhere is quite crowded. Finally he hid his things. The hero comes to Razumikhin without any specific purpose for the visit. His friend considers him sick. Returning home, the young man almost gets run over by a stroller. The woman sitting in it mistakes the hero for a beggar and gives him two kopecks. Raskolnikov throws money into the river. The student is delirious all night, and in the morning he loses consciousness.

Rodion comes to his senses a few days later. Next to him are Razumikhin and Nastasya. The student receives a transfer from his mother. Razumikhin says that policeman Zametov came to the hero more than once and was interested in his things. Left alone, Raskolnikov carefully examines his room and all his things, worrying whether there are traces of a crime left on them. Razumikhin brings his friend new clothes.

Another friend, medical student Zosimov, pays a visit to Raskolnikov. From the conversation between the guests about the murder of the old pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta, Rodion learns that many are suspected, including the dyer Mikola.

Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin comes to Raskolnikov’s apartment. He reports that he has found housing for his fiancee and her mother. Luzhin makes an unpleasant impression on the students, since he loves only himself. Young people are talking about crime again. The hero learns that Porfiry Petrovich is interrogating all the old woman’s clients. Raskolnikov reproaches Luzhin for wanting to marry a girl from a poor family so that she would consider her husband her benefactor all her life and obey him. Pyotr Petrovich is indignant and says that Pulcheria Alexandrovna distorted the meaning of his words. Rodion promises to take the guest down the stairs.

In the Crystal Palace tavern, Rodion meets Zametov again. Raskolnikov says what he would have done in the place of the old woman’s murderer: how he would have covered up the traces of the crime, where he would have hidden the stolen property. Zametov says he does not believe that the student was involved in the crime. Walking around the city, Rodion Raskolnikov approaches the Neva and thinks about suicide. Before his eyes, a woman throws herself into the water, but is rescued. The young man refuses the idea of ​​suicide. In a semi-delirious state, the hero goes to the house of the murdered pawnbroker, where repairs are underway. He talks to the workers about the crime, and they think he is crazy. Rodion is about to go to Razumikhin’s party, but hears a noise nearby and goes there.

The stroller ran over Marmeladov. The victim is carried home, Katerina Ivanovna is in despair, she gets angry and shouts at the crowd of onlookers. Sonechka arrives, and Rodion notices that she looks ridiculous in a flashy outfit among the squalid furnishings of the room. Marmeladov asks his daughter for forgiveness and dies. Raskolnikov gives his family all his money for the funeral. Katerina Ivanovna’s daughter Polechka catches up with the young man, and he gives her his address. Raskolnikov feels that he is beginning to recover. He goes to a friend's party, after which Razumikhin accompanies him home. Approaching the house, the student sees light in his windows. Rising, he sees his mother and sister and faints.

Rodion Raskolnikov comes to his senses and asks his family not to worry about him. Young man arguing with his sister

about Luzhin, demands that Dunya help Pyotr Petrovich. Razumikhin likes his friend’s sister, he is trying to prove to her that he and Luzhin are not a couple. The student’s relatives leave because Rodion wants to be alone.

In the morning, Razumikhin comes to Rodion’s mother and sister, asks Dunya for forgiveness for the words about her fiancé, and apologizes for his temper. Luzhin sends a note to the ladies, saying that he wants to visit them, but asks that Raskolnikov not be in the house at that moment.

Raskolnikov talks about the death of Marmeladov, learns from his mother about the death of Svidrigailova. Rodion is told about Pyotr Petrovich’s note, but he is ready to do as his family wants. Dunya wants her brother to be present when her fiancé visits.

Sonya comes to Raskolnikov and invites him to Marmeladov’s funeral. Rodion introduces her to her mother and sister, although the girl’s reputation does not allow her to communicate with ladies on equal terms. As Dunya leaves, she bows to Marmeladova. Raskolnikov asks to introduce him to Porfiry Petrovich, because he wants to pick up the things that he himself pawned from the old woman. Sonya is being pursued by some stranger and talking to her.

Raskolnikov, together with Razumikhin, goes to Porfiry Petrovich. Rodion makes fun of his friend's sympathy for Duna. Porfiry's friends see Zametov. The criminal wants to find out whether the investigator knows about his recent visit to the victim's house. From a conversation with the police, the hero understands that he is suspected of murder. Porfiry Petrovich reminds the student about his article published in the newspaper “Periodic Speech”. The article outlines Raskolnikov’s theory, according to which people are divided into ordinary, i.e. “material,” and extraordinary.

Extraordinary people can allow their conscience to commit a crime for the greater good. Investigator Porfiry asks the hero about details: for example, whether he saw the dyers during his visit to the pawnbroker. Rodion, afraid of making a mistake, hesitates to answer. Razumikhin says that his friend was in the house three days before the murder, and the dyers were working on the day of the crime. Porfiry says goodbye to the students.

When Raskolnikov approaches his house, an unknown man calls him a murderer and immediately leaves. The hero is again tormented by fever. He dreams of this passerby. He beckons him to Alena Ivanovna’s apartment. Rodion hits the old woman on the head with an ax, and she laughs. A young man wants to run away, but there are a lot of people around him condemning him. Raskolnikov wakes up. Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov comes to him.

Part four

Raskolnikov is not happy about Svidrigailov’s visit, since he has seriously damaged his sister’s reputation. Arkady Ivanovich says that he and Rodion are very similar to each other, “birds of a feather.” Svidrigailov asks Raskolnikov to organize a meeting for him with Dunya. His wife left her three thousand rubles, and he himself wants to give her ten thousand for the trouble she caused. The student refuses to arrange a meeting.

In the evening, Razumikhin and Raskolnikov come to Rodion’s relatives. Luzhin is outraged that the ladies did not heed his request. He wants to discuss the upcoming wedding, but he is not going to do this in front of Raskolnikov. Pyotr Petrovich reproaches Dunya for not understanding her happiness and reminds her of the plight of the girl’s family. Dunya replies that she cannot choose between her fiancé and her brother. She and Luzhin quarrel, and the girl asks her groom to leave.

Luzhin was completely satisfied with Dunya as a wife, and therefore he hopes to fix everything. Rodion talks about Svidrigailov's visit. His sister is sure that the man is planning something terrible and is afraid of meeting him. Everyone begins to talk about how to spend Marfa Petrovna’s money.

Razumikhin suggests going into book publishing. Everyone is talking animatedly. Rodion Raskolnikov suddenly gets up in the middle of the conversation and leaves. He says it’s better for them not to see each other for a while. Razumikhin tries to reassure the young man’s relatives, saying that he has not yet fully recovered.

Rodion comes to Sonya and says that her sacrifice is in vain. The girl replies that she cannot leave her relatives, since without her they will simply die of hunger. The young man bows at Marmeladova’s feet, saying that he bows to “all human suffering.” Raskolnikov learns that Sonechka was friends with the late Lizaveta. On the girl’s table lies the Gospel brought by the pawnbroker’s sister. A student asks to read it to him

about the resurrection of Lazarus. Then Rodion promises to come the next day and say who killed Lizaveta. Their conversation is heard by Svidrigailov, who is in the next room at the time.

The next day, Rodion goes to Porfiry Petrovich and asks to return his things. The investigator checks him again. Raskolnikov breaks down and asks to plead guilty or not guilty of murder. The man avoids answering. He reports that there is some kind of surprise in the next room.

The dyer Nikolai is brought in, and he, unexpectedly for everyone, confesses to the murder of the old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov returns home. The mysterious man who called Rodion a murderer appears on the threshold of his room. The man asks for forgiveness for his words. It turned out that he had heard stories about the murder in the apartment, and it was this that Porfiry prepared as a “surprise”. Raskolnikov feels calmer.

Part five

In his quarrel with Dunya, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin considers only Raskolnikov to blame. He wants revenge and invites Sonya to his place. The man asks for forgiveness that he will not be able to come to the wake, and gives the girl ten rubles.

Katerina Ivanovna arranges a good wake, but many do not come to them. Rodion Rassolnikov appears. The widow quarrels with the owner of the apartment, Amalia Ivanovna. At this moment Luzhin arrives.

Pyotr Petrovich reports that Sonya stole a hundred rubles from him. He provides his neighbor Lebezyatnikov as a witness. Sonya is lost, but very soon begins to deny the accusations and gives Luzhin his ten rubles. Katerina Ivanovna does not believe in the girl’s guilt and begins to empty her pockets. A hundred-ruble bill falls from there. Lebezyatnikov says that Luzhin himself slipped the money to the girl. Pyotr Petrovich shouts, promising to call the police. Katerina Ivanovna and her children are kicked out of the apartment.

Rodion Raskolnikov comes to Sonya and says that he knows the killer. The girl understands everything. She is ready to follow him to hard labor, but he must atone for his sin. The student realizes that his theory was not confirmed.

Lebezyatnikov reports that Katerina Ivanovna has gone crazy. She forced the children to beg, and they ran away from her. The woman is taken to Sonechka, where she dies. Dunya does not take ten thousand from Svidrigailov, and the man wants to give them to the Marmeladovs. Raskolnikov advises his sister to pay attention to Razumikhin.

Part six

Katerina Ivanovna is buried. Razumikhin talks about how Pulcheria Alexandrovna is sick. Rodion wants to deal with Svidrigailov, to talk about his intentions regarding Dunya.

Porfiry Petrovich comes and reports that he suspects the young man of murder, advises him to confess and gives him two days to think about it. However, there is no evidence against Rodion, and he does not admit to the crime.

Dunya goes to meet Svidrigailov. Arkady Ivanovich insists that they talk in his apartment. He tells the girl about the conversation he overheard between Sonya and Raskolnikov, and promises to save Rodion in exchange for Dunya’s love and affection. The girl wants to leave the house, but the door is locked. She shoots Arkady Ivanovich several times with a revolver, but misses, asking him to let her go. Svidrigailov gives the girl the key to the door. Dunya throws the revolver and leaves. The man raises the revolver.

Svidrigailov walks around the taverns, then visits Sonya. He reports that he has placed the children in a good boarding house and gives her three thousand. At night, Arkady Ivanovich dreams of a teenage girl who died long ago because of him. He leaves the hotel and commits suicide with Dunya's revolver.

Raskolnikov says goodbye to his mother and sister; informs Duna that he wants to confess to the murder and promises to start a new life. Rodion regrets that he did not cross the cherished threshold of his theory, his conscience.

The hero goes to Sonya, and the girl puts her pectoral cross on him. She advises kissing the ground at a crossroads and saying out loud: “I am a murderer.” Rodion follows her advice, after which he goes to the police station and confesses to his crime. There he learns about Svidrigailov’s suicide.

Raskolnikov was sentenced to eight years of hard labor. He has been serving his sentence for a year and a half. Pulcheria Alexandrovna dies, and Sonechka goes to hard labor after Raskolnikov. The hero's sister marries Razumikhin. The young man wants to save money and go to Siberia so that everyone can start a new life there together.

Rodion does not find a common language with the other prisoners. He is ashamed that he ruined his life so stupidly and mediocrely. Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov seems to the hero to be stronger in spirit, because he was able to commit suicide. All the prisoners fell in love with Sonya and when they met, they took off their hats and bowed to her. Rodion falls ill and even lies in the hospital. His recovery is difficult and slow. Under Raskolnikov's pillow lies the Gospel. One day the young man begins to cry and hug Sonya’s knees. The girl understands that he loves her and also cries: “They were resurrected by love, the heart of one contained endless sources of life for the heart of the other. They decided to wait and endure... But he was resurrected, and he knew it, he felt it more fully with his whole renewed being, and she - after all, she lived only his life!”

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“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

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At the beginning of June, when the streets of St. Petersburg were hot and stuffy, Rodion Raskolnikov left his closet and carefully went down so as not to meet the landlady from whom the young man rented his squalid home. He lived very poorly, his clothes had long worn out, he had recently dropped out of university and lived in poverty, not even able to pay for his room. Leaving the house, Raskolnikov went to the old money-lender to take money from her as collateral. A plan is ripening in his head, which he has been thinking about for several months, preparing to implement. He knows how many steps separate his house from the pawnbroker's house, and suddenly he is struck by the thought that his hat is too conspicuous. He thinks with disgust that some insignificant detail can ruin everything. The heat only aggravates his nervous excitement, so Rodion thinks to abandon his plan: “all this is disgusting, disgusting, disgusting!”, he believes. But then he mentally returns to his plans, noticing in passing that an apartment in the old building is being vacated, which means that only one will remain occupied... The oldest, Alena Ivanovna, lives in a two-room apartment with her sister, the silent and submissive Elizaveta, who is staying with Alena Ivanovna in “complete slavery” and “the pregnant woman walks around every minute.”

Leaving the old silver watch and receiving much less money than he planned, Raskolnikov goes into a pub, where he meets Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov. Marmeladov, dirty and constantly drunk, tells his new acquaintances about his life, about his dismissal from service, about his family, which suffers from poverty. Marmeladov’s wife Katerina Ivanovna has three children from her first marriage, she is the widow of an officer, after the death of her husband she was left without funds, so out of hopelessness and difficulty she agreed to marry Marmeladov. Marmeladov’s daughter Sonya was forced to go to the panel in order to somehow help her half-brother and sisters and Katerina Ivanovna. Marmeladov takes money from Sonya, steals the last of the house to drink again, constantly cries and repents, blames himself for everything, but does not stop drinking. Raskolnikov takes his husband home, where a scandal arises. Leaving there even more depressed from what he heard and saw, Rodion leaves several coins on the windowsill.

The next morning Rodion received a long letter from his mother. She explains why she did not write for so long and was not able to send her son money. To help him, Raskolnikov’s sister Dunya went to serve the Svidrigailovs, where she borrowed one hundred rubles in advance, and therefore could not free herself when Svidrigailov began to pester her. Marfa Petrovna, Svidrigailov's wife, found out about her husband's intentions, but blamed the girl for everything, disgracing her throughout the city. After some time, her husband’s conscience woke up and he showed his wife Dunya’s letter, in which he rejects all of Svidrigailov’s proposals and asks him to think about Marfa Petrovna. Then Mrs. Svidrigailova visits all the families in the city, talking about this unfortunate oversight and trying to restore Dunya’s reputation. Meanwhile, the mother writes to Rodion, there is a man for Dunya - adviser Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin. The woman tries to describe Luzhin from a positive side, but Raskolnikov understands well that this marriage is arranged only because Dunya loves her brother most of all and seeks to help him with funds and a possible career with the help of Luzhin. The mother describes Luzhin as a direct and frank person, explaining this in the words of Luzhin himself, who, without hesitation, said that he wanted to marry an honest woman, but certainly poor, but a man should not be obliged to his wife, but on the contrary - the wife should see her own in the man benefactor. Soon Rodion's mother reports that Luzhin will visit St. Petersburg on business, so Raskolnikov has to meet him. After some time, he and Dunya will come to him. Rodion finishes reading the letter with indignation and a firm intention not to allow this marriage, so Dunya openly sells herself, thereby buying her brother’s well-being. According to Rodion, this is even worse than the act of Sonya Marmeladova, who saves hungry children from death. He thinks about the future, but understands that until he graduates from university and can get a job, a lot of time will pass, and he despairs about the fate of his sister and mother. Then the thought of the pawnbroker returns to him again.

Raskolnikov leaves the house and wanders aimlessly around the city, talking to himself. Suddenly he notices a drunk, exhausted girl walking along the boulevard. He understands that she was simply drunk, dishonored and thrown out onto the street. When a fat man tries to approach the girl, Raskolnikov understands his dirty intentions and calls a policeman, gives money for a cab driver to take the girl home. Reflecting on the fate of the girl, he realizes that he can no longer save her. Suddenly he remembers that he left the house with the intention of entering his university friend Razumikhin, but decides to postpone the visit until “when the topic is finished”... Rodion is frightened by his own thoughts, unable to believe that he has really already decided everything. He is irritated and frightened, wanders for a long time until he falls exhausted on the grass and falls asleep. He has a dream in which he, a boy of about seven, walks with his father and sees a horse harnessed to a cart. The owner of the horse, Kolya, drunk and excited, invites everyone to get into the cart, but the horse is old and cannot budge. He beats her with a whip, others join in the beating, and the enraged drunks beat the animal to death. Little Rodion cries, runs up to the dead horse and kisses its face, he throws his fists at Kolya, but his father picks him up and carries him away. Waking up, Raskolnikov realizes with relief that this is horror - just a terrible unpleasant dream, but heavy thoughts do not leave him. Will he really kill the pawnbroker? Is he really capable of doing this, really taking an ax and hitting him on the head? No, he can't, he won't stand it. This thought makes the young man’s soul feel lighter. Here he sees the pawnbroker’s sister Lizaveta, who is making an agreement with her friends that she will come to them tomorrow at seven to do some business. This means that the old one will be there tomorrow, and this returns Raskolnikov to his old thoughts, he understands that now everything has been decided finally.

Raskolnikov recalls how a month and a half ago he accidentally overheard a conversation between an officer and a student who were discussing that pawnbroker. The student said that he would kill him and rob him without any twinge of conscience, because so many people suffer from poverty, so much good can be done with the money of the old, and what is his life worth on the general scale. But when the officer asked whether he could kill the pawnbroker himself, the student replied that he could not. This chance conversation between two strangers had a very strong influence on Rodion.

The next day, Raskolnikov cannot collect his thoughts, he prepares for murder: he sews a loop on the inside of his coat to hide an ax in it, prepares a “collateral” - an ordinary piece of iron is wrapped in paper and tied with twine to divert the old woman’s attention. Raskolnikov steals an ax from the janitor and carefully, slowly, so as not to attract attention, heads to the pawnbroker’s house. As he climbs the stairs, he notices that the apartment on the third floor is empty and is being renovated. The loan shark reveals to Raskolnikov: when she turns her back to him, he hits her on the head, then again and again, takes her keys and rummages around the apartment, stuffing his pockets with money and deposits. His hands are shaking, he wants to drop everything and leave. Suddenly he hears a noise and runs into Lizaveta, who has returned home. She doesn't even raise her hands to defend herself when she sees him with the axe. He kills the pawnbroker's sister and tries to wash the blood off his hands and the axe. Suddenly he notices that the front doors have been open all this time, he scolds himself for his inattention and closes them, but mentions that he needs to run, and opens it again, standing listening. Raskolnikov hears some steps, it closes from the inside only when people rise to the third floor. Visitors ring the doorbell and are very surprised that no one opens, because the old one never leaves the house. They decide that something has happened, and one of them goes to call the janitor. The second one, after standing, also leaves. Then Raskolnikov rushes out of the apartment and, hiding on the third floor behind the door of an empty apartment while the strangers were climbing up as a janitor, runs out of the house into the street. Rodion is scared and doesn’t know what to do now. He returns to his room, throws the ax that he stole to the janitor in the janitor’s room, and, going up to his room, falls exhausted onto the bed.

PART TWO

Raskolnikov wakes up early in the morning. He is nervous and shivering. Trying to eliminate traces of blood on his clothes, he remembers that the things he stole are still in his pockets. He rushes in a panic, finally decides to hide them behind a torn piece of wallpaper in the corner, but realizes that it’s visible that way, they don’t bury it that way. Every now and then he is thrown into sleep and some kind of nervous numbness. Suddenly there was a knock on the door and they brought a summons from the police. Raskolnikov leaves the house, his condition is aggravated by the indescribable heat. Following the police, he decides to tell everything about the crime. When tortured, he will kneel and tell everything. But he was called to the police officer not because of this, but because of his debt to the owner of the apartment. It becomes easier for him, he is filled with animal joy. He watches the clerk, the people around him, and the magnificent lady Luisa Ivanovna, who is being shouted at by the policeman’s assistant. Raskolnikov himself, in hysterical excitement, begins to talk about his life, about how he was going to marry the owner’s daughter, but she died of typhus, and talks about his mother and sister. They listen to him and force him to write a receipt that he will pay the debt. He finishes writing, but does not leave, although he is no longer detained. It occurs to him to tell about his crime, but he hesitates. By chance he hears a conversation about yesterday's murder of an old woman and her sister Elizabeth. Raskolnikov tries to leave, but loses consciousness. When he wakes up, he says that he is sick, although everyone around him looks at him suspiciously. Raskolnikov hurries home because he needs to get rid of things by any means, he wants to throw them into the water somewhere, but there are people everywhere, so he hides things under a stone in one of the remote courtyards. He goes to Razumikhin. They have not seen each other for a long time, but Raskolnikov only mutters something incomprehensible, refuses help and leaves without explaining anything, angering and surprising his friend.

On the street, Raskolnikov almost falls under a carriage; he is mistaken for a beggar and given a coin. He stops at the bridge over the Neva, on which he once loved to stand, looking out over the panorama of the city. He throws a coin into the water, it seems to him that at that moment he cut himself off from everyone and everything, “like scissors.” Returning home, he falls on the bed in a heavy nervous sleep, he is in a fever, Raskolnikov hears some screams, he is afraid that they will come to him now, time begins to delirium. His delirium is interrupted by the cook Nastasya, who comes to feed him; she says that he dreamed all these screams. Raskolnikov cannot eat, it becomes more and more difficult for him, in the end he loses consciousness and only comes to his senses on the fourth day. He sees Nastasya and Razumikhin in his room, who were caring for him. Razumikhin settled this matter with the debt, while Raskolnikov was unconscious, he received thirty-five rubles from his mother, and with part of this money Razumikhin buys Raskolnikov new clothes. Zosimov, a doctor and friend of Razumikhin, also comes. Sitting at the table, Razumikhin and Zosimov talk about the murder of the pawnbroker. They also remember the investigator in this case, Porfiry Petrovich, who is supposed to come to Razumikhin’s housewarming party. They say that the artist Nikolai, who worked in an apartment on the third floor, was accused of murder because he was trying to hand over earrings that belonged to Likhvartsi. The painter says that he found those earrings outside the apartment door and did not kill anyone. Then Razumikhin tries to reconstruct the whole picture of the crime. When Kokh and Pestryakov (the people who came to the pawnbroker when Raskolnikov was there) rang the doorbell, the killer was in the apartment, Razumikhin argues, and when they went after the janitor, he ran and hid in an empty apartment on the third floor. It was at this time that the painters ran out of it, chasing each other for fun. There the killer accidentally dropped the case with the earrings, which Nikolai later found. When Koch and Pestryakov returned upstairs, the killer disappeared.

During their conversation, an older, not very pleasant-looking man comes into the room. This man is Dunya’s fiancé, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin. He informs Rodion that his mother and sister will soon arrive in St. Petersburg and stay in rooms at his expense. Rodion understands that these rooms are very dubious premises. Luzhin says that he has already purchased a separate apartment for himself and Dunya, but it is now being renovated. He himself stayed with his friend Andrei Semenovich Lebezyatnikov. Luzhin thinks aloud about modern society, about the new trends that he follows, and says that the more well-organized private enterprises in a society, the better the whole society is organized. Therefore, according to Luzhin’s philosophy, you must first love yourself, because to love your neighbor is to tear your clothes in half, give half, and both will be left naked.

Razumikhin interrupts Luzhin, the society returns to discussing the crime. Zosimov believes that the old woman was killed by one of those to whom she gave loans. Razumikhin agrees and adds that investigator Porfiry Petrovich is interrogating them. Luzhin, intervening in the conversation, begins to talk about the crime level, about the increase in the number of crimes not only among the poor, but also in the upper strata. Raskolnikov joins the conversation. He says that the reason for this is precisely Luzhin’s theory, because when it is continued, it means that people can be killed. Raskolnikov turns to Luzhin, without hiding his irritation, asking whether Luzhin is really more satisfied that his bride is poor and now he can feel like the master of his fate. Rodion drives Luzhin away. He goes, indignant. When everyone has left, Raskolnikov goes to wander around the city, he enters a tavern, where he asks about the latest newspapers. There he meets Zametov, a clerk from the police station, a friend of Razumikhin. In his conversation with him, Raskolnikov is very nervous; he tells Zametov what he would do if he killed the old woman. “What if it was I who killed the old woman and Lizaveta? Admit it, would you believe it? Yes? “- he asks. Raskolnikov left in a state of complete nervous exhaustion. If at the beginning of the conversation Zametov had any suspicions, now he decides that they are all groundless, and Raskolnikov is just a nervous and strange guy. At the door, Rodion meets Razumikhin, who does not understand what is happening to his friend, invites Raskolnikov to a housewarming party. But he only asks to leave him at last and goes.

Raskolnikov stops on the bridge, looks into the water, and suddenly a woman nearby throws herself into the water, and a policeman saves her. Having thrown away the unexpected thought of suicide, Raskolnikov heads to the police station, but ends up at the house where he committed the murder. He talks with the workers who are renovating the pawnbroker’s apartment and starts talking to the janitor. He seems very suspicious to all of them. On the street, Rodion notices a person who was hit by a carriage. He recognizes Marmeladov and helps take him home. Marmeladov is dying. Ekaterina Ivanovna sends the priest and Sonya so that she can say goodbye to her father. Dying, he asks his daughter for forgiveness. Raskolnikov leaves all his money to Marmeladov’s family and leaves, he asks Ekaterina Ivanovna’s daughter Polya to pray for him, leaves his address and promises to come again. He feels that he can still live on, and his life did not die with the old money-lender.

Raskolnikov goes to Razumikhin and talks to him in the hallway. On the way to Rodion's house, the men talk about Zosimov, who considers Raskolnikov crazy, about Zametov, who no longer suspects Rodion. Razumikhin says that he himself and Porfiry Petrovich were really waiting for Raskolnikov. The light is on in Rodion’s room: his mother and sister have been waiting for him for several hours. Seeing them, Rodion consciousness.

PART THREE

Having woken up, Raskolnikov tells how he kicked out Luzhin, he insists that Dunya refuse this marriage, because he does not want to accept her sacrifice. “Either I or Luzhin,” says Rodion. Razumikhin tries to calm down Raskolnikov's mother and sister, explaining all of Rodion's illnesses. He falls in love with Dunya at first sight. Having seen them off, he returns to Raskolnikov, and from there he again goes to Dunya, inviting Zosimov with him. Zosimov says that Raskolnikov has signs of monomania, but the arrival of his relatives will definitely help him.

Waking up the next morning, Razumikhin reproaches himself for yesterday’s behavior, because he behaved too eccentrically, which may have frightened Dunya. He goes to them again, where he tells Rodion’s mother and sister about the events that, in his opinion, could lead to Rodion’s condition. Raskolnikov's mother, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, says that Luzhin did not meet them with Dunya at the station, as he promised, but instead sent a footman; today he also did not come, although he promised, but he sent a note. Razumikhin reads a note in which it is written that Rodion Romanovich greatly offended Luzhin, so Luzhin does not want to see him. And therefore he asks that tonight, when he comes to them, Rodion will not be there. In addition, Luzhin says that he saw Rodion in the apartment of a drunkard who died in the carriage, and knows that Rodion gave his daughter, a girl of dubious behavior, twenty-five rubles. Dunya decides that Rodion must come.

But before that, they themselves go to Rodion, where they find Zosimov, Raskolnikov is very pale and depressed. He talks about Marmeladov, his widow, her children, Sonya, and why he gave them the money. Rodion’s mother talks about the unexpected death of Svidrigailov’s wife, Marfa Petrovna: according to rumors, she died from her husband’s abuse. Raskolnikov returns to yesterday’s conversation with Dunya: “Either I or Luzhin,” he says again. Dunya replies that she will not marry Luzhin if he is not worthy of her respect, and this will become clear in the evening. The girl shows her brother Luzhin’s letter and asks him to definitely come.

While they are talking, Sonya Marmeladova comes into the room to invite Raskolnikov to the funeral. Rodion promises to come and introduces Sonya to his family. Dunya and her mother go, inviting Razumikhin to their place for dinner. Raskolnikov tells his friend that the old one contained his collateral: a watch from his father and a ring given by Dunya. He is afraid that these things will be lost. Therefore, Raskolnikov ponders whether he should turn to Porfiry Petrovich. Razumikhin says that this definitely needs to be done, and Porfiry Petrovich will be glad to meet Rodion. Everyone leaves the house, and Raskolnikov asks Sonya for her address. She walks scared, very afraid that Rodion will see how she lives. A man is watching her, he accompanies her to the door of her room, only there he speaks to her. He says that they are neighbors, he lives nearby, and recently arrived in the city.

Razumikhin and Raskolnikov go to Porfiry. Rodion is worried about everything, Porfiry knows that yesterday he was in the old apartment and asked about the blood. Raskolnikov resorts to cunning: he jokes with Razumikhin, hinting at his attitude towards Duna. Rodion laughs. Razumikhin, laughing, comes to Porfiry. Rodion tries to make his laughter sound natural. Razumikhin is quite sincerely angry because of Rodion’s joke. Within a minute, Rodion notices Zametov in the corner. This makes him suspicious.

Men talk about forced things. It seems to Raskolnikov that Porfiry Petrovich knows. When the conversation turns to crime in general, Razumikhin expresses his thoughts and says that he does not agree with socialists who explain all crimes solely by social factors. Then Porfiry mentions Raskolnikov’s article published in the newspaper. The article is called “About Crime”. Raskolnikov didn’t even know that the article had been published after all, because he wrote it several months ago. The article talks about the psychological state of the criminal, and Porfiry Petrovich says that the article is a completely transparent hint that there are special people who have the right to commit crimes. According to Raskolnikov, all outstanding people who are able to say a new word are, by their nature, criminals to a certain extent. People are generally divided into two categories: the lower (ordinary people), who are only material for the reproduction of new people, and real people, capable of creating something new, saying a new word. And if a person from the second category needs to step over a crime, through blood, for the sake of her own idea, she can afford to do it. The first are conservative people, accustomed to listening, they are people of the present, and the second are destroyers by nature, they are people of the future. The former only preserve humanity as a species, while the latter advance humanity towards the goal.

“How can we distinguish these ordinary ones from the unusual ones?” — Porfiry Petrovich is interested. Raskolnikov believes that only a person of the lowest rank can make a mistake in this distinction, because many of them consider themselves a new person, a person of the future, while they do not notice real new people or even despise them. According to Raskolnikov, very few new people are born. Razumikhin indignantly disagrees with his friend, saying that allowing oneself to step over blood “out of conscience” is more terrible than official permission to shed blood, legal permission...

“What if some ordinary guy thinks he’s Lycurgus or Mohammed and starts removing obstacles?” - Asks Porfiry Petrovich. And didn’t Raskolnikov himself, when writing the article, feel at least a little like an amazing person who was saying a “new word”? Quite possibly, Raskolnikov answers. Did Raskolnikov, for the sake of all humanity, also decide to steal or kill? - Porfiry Petrovich does not subside. If I had overstepped, then, of course, I wouldn’t have told you,” answers a gloomy Rodion and adds that he does not consider himself Napoleon or Mohammed. Who in Rus' considers himself Napoleon? .. - Porfiry smiles. Was it not Napoleon who killed our Alena Ivanovna with an ax just last week? - Zametova suddenly asks. Gloomy, Raskolnikov is getting ready to leave and agrees to visit the investigator tomorrow. Porfiry is trying to finally confuse Rodion, allegedly confusing the day of the murder with the day when Raskolnikov went to the pawnbrokers.

Raskolnikov and Razumikhin go to see Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya. Dear Razumikhin is indignant that Porfiry Petrovich and Zametova suspect Rodion of murder. Suddenly something occurs to Rodion and he returns home, where he checks the hole under the wallpaper: there is nothing left there. There's nothing there. Going out into the yard, he notices the janitor pointing him out to a man. The man leaves silently. Rodion catches up with him and asks what this means. The man, looking into Rodion’s eyes, quietly and clearly says: “Murderer!”

Irritated and amazed, Raskolnikov returns to his room on weak legs, his thoughts are confused. He discusses what kind of person he was. He despises himself for his weakness, because he knew in advance what would happen to him. But he knew it! He wanted to step over, but couldn’t... He didn’t kill the old woman, but the principle... He wanted to step over, but he remained on this side. All he could do was kill! Those others are not like him. The real owner destroys Toulon, organizes a massacre in Paris, forgets the army in Egypt, wastes half a million people in Moscow... and it is he who is erected a monument after his death. Consequently, everything is allowed to such people, but not to him... He convinced himself that he was doing this for a good cause, but now what? He suffers and despises himself: and deservedly so. In his soul there arises hatred for everyone and at the same time love for the dear, unfortunate Elizabeth, mother, Sonya...

He understands that at such a moment he can involuntarily tell everything to his mother... Raskolnikov falls asleep and sees a terrible dream, where the man of today lures him into the pawnbroker’s apartment, and she is alive, he hits her again with an ax, and she laughs. He starts to run - some people are already waiting for him. Rodion wakes up and sees a man on the threshold - Arkady Petrovich Svidrigailov.

PART FOUR

Svidrigailov says that he needs Raskolnikov’s help in one matter that concerns his sister. She herself will not let him in, but together with his brother... Raskolnikov refuses Svidrigailov. He explains his behavior towards Dunya with love, passion, and to accusations of his wife’s death he replies that she died of apoplexy, and he only hit her “only twice with a whip”... Svidrigailov speaks without stopping. Examining the guest, Rodion suddenly remarks out loud that Svidrigailov can be a decent person in a certain case.

Svidrigailov tells the story of his relationship with Marfa Petrovna. But 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, and all her life she kept a document about the thirty thousand rubles he paid as a guarantee that the man would not leave her. And only a year before her death she gave him this document and gave him a lot of money. Svidrigailov tells how the late Marfa Petrovna came to him. Shocked, Raskolnikov thinks that the deceased moneylender appeared to him too. “Why did I think that something like this would happen to you,” Rodion exclaimed. Svidrigailov feels that there is something in common between them; he admits that as soon as he saw Rodion, he immediately thought: “This is the one!” But he can't explain which is the same. Raskolnikov advises Svidrigailov to see a doctor, considers him abnormal... Meanwhile, Svidrigailov says that the dispute between him and his wife arose because she organized Dunya’s engagement to Luzhin. Svidrigailov himself believes that he is not Dunya’s match, and is even ready to offer her money to ease the break with her fiancé, and Marfa Petrovna left Dunya three thousand. Svidrigailov really wants to see Dunya; he himself is soon going to marry a girl. On his way out, he runs into Razumikhin at the door.

Arriving at Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya, the friends meet Luzhin there. He is angry, because he asked Raskolnikov not to let him in.

When it comes to Marfa Petrovna, Luzhin reports the arrival of Svidrigailov and talks about this man’s crime, which he allegedly learned from his wife. The niece of Svidrigailov’s acquaintance, pawnbroker Resslikh, hanged herself in the attic of the house, allegedly because Svidrigailov “cruelly insulted” him. According to Luzhin, Svidrigailov tortured and drove his servant to suicide. But Dunya objects and says that Svidrigailov treated the servants well. Raskolnikov reports that Svidrigailov came to see him, and that Marfa Petrovna bequeathed money to Dunya.

Luzhin is about to leave. Dunya asks him to stay to find out everything. But, according to Luzhin, a woman’s attitude towards a man should be higher than her attitude towards her brother - he is angry that he is being put “on the same level” with Raskolnikov. He reproaches Pulcheria Alexandrovna for misunderstanding him and writing lies about him in her letter to Rodion. Intervening, Raskolnikov reproaches that Luzhin said that he left the money not to the widow of the deceased Marmeladov, but to his daughter, about whom Luzhin spoke in an undignified tone. Raskolnikov declares that Luzhin is not worth Dunya’s little finger. The dispute ends with Dunya herself ordering Luzhin to leave, and Rodion kicking him out. Luzhin is outraged, he knows that the rumors about Dunya are false, but he considers his decision to marry her a worthy act, for which everyone should be grateful to him. He can't believe that two poor, helpless women are not submitting to him. For many years he dreamed of marrying a simple, but reasonable, honest and beautiful girl. And so his dreams began to come true, it could help him in his career, but now everything is lost! But Luzhin does not give up hope of fixing everything...
Finally, everyone is happy that Luzhin went. Dunya admits that she wanted to get money this way, but she didn’t even realize that Luzhin was a scoundrel. Excited Razumikhin does not hide his joy. Telling his family about Svidrigailov’s visit, Raskolnikov says that he seemed strange, almost crazy: he either said that he would go, or that he was going to get married. Dunya is worried, her intuition tells her that Svidrigailov is planning something terrible. Razumikhin persuades the women to stay in St. Petersburg. He promises that he will get money and they will be able to publish books; he says that he has already found them good premises. Dunya really likes his idea. Meanwhile, Rodion is about to leave. “Who knows, maybe we’ll see each other again,” he says involuntarily. Having caught up with him, Razumikhin tries to find out at least something. Rodion asks his friend not to abandon his mother and Dunya. Their glances meet, and Razumikhin is struck by a terrible guess. He turns pale and freezes in place. "Do you understand now?" - Raskolnikov says.

Raskolnikov goes to see Sonya; she has an amazing, irregularly shaped, clear and miserable room. Sonya talks about the owners who treat her well, remembers Ekaterina Ivanovna, whom she loves very much: she is so unhappy and sick, she believes that there should be justice in everything... Sonya reproaches herself that a week before her father’s death she refused to read him a book, and She did not give Katerina Ivanovna the collar that she had purchased from Elizabeth. “But Katerina Ivanovna is sick,” Rodion objects, “and you can get sick, then they will take you to the hospital, but what will happen to the children? Then the same thing will happen with Polya as with Sonya” and “No!” .. - Sonya screams. - God will protect her! “Maybe there is no God at all,” Raskolnikov answers. Sonya cries, she considers herself infinitely sinful, suddenly Rodion bows and kisses her foot. “I didn’t bow to you, I bowed to all human suffering,” he says quietly. He says that Sonya’s biggest sin is that she has lost everything, that she lives in the dirt, that hates, and this does not save anyone from anything, and it would be better for her to just kill herself...
Rodion understands from Sonya’s eyes alone that she has thought about suicide more than once, but her love for Katerina Ivanovna and her children make her live. And the dirt in which he lives did not touch her soul - she remained clean. Placing all her hopes on God, Sonya often goes to church, but constantly reads and knows the Gospel well. Last week it happened in the church: Elizabeth sent a memorial service for the dead, which was “fair.” Sonya reads aloud to Raskolnikov the parable of the resurrection of Lazarus. Raskolnikov tells Sonya that he left his family and now he only has her left. They are cursed together, they must go together! “You also stepped over,” says Rodion, “you were able to step over. You killed yourself, you ruined your life... yours, but it’s all the same... For if you’re left alone, crazy like me... You have to break everything and take the suffering upon yourself. And power over the trembling creatures and over the entire human anthill is the goal. Raskolnikov says that he will follow now, but if tomorrow (if he comes at all), he will tell Sonya who killed Lizaveta. Meanwhile, in the next room, Svidrigailov overheard their entire conversation...

The next morning, Raskolnikov goes to see investigator Porfiry Petrovich. Rodion is sure that the mysterious man who called him a murderer has already denounced him. But in the office no one pays attention to Raskolnikov; the young man is very afraid of the investigator. Having met him, amiable as always, Rodion gives him a receipt for the watch he pawned. Noticing Raskolnikov's excited state, Porfiry starts an intricate conversation, testing the young man's patience. Raskolnikov cannot stand it, asks to be interrogated according to the form, according to the rules, but Porfiry Petrovich does not pay attention to his exclamation and seems to be waiting for something or someone. The investigator mentions Raskolnikov’s article about criminals and says that the criminal should not be arrested too early, because, remaining free, he will finally come and confess. This is more likely to happen to a developed, nervous person. And the criminal can escape, then “he won’t escape from me psychologically,” says Porfiry Petrovich. In addition, the criminal does not take into account that, in addition to his plans, there is also nature, human nature. So it turns out that some young man will cunningly think through everything, hide it, one might seem to rejoice, but he will go ahead and faint! Raskolnikov holds on, but clearly sees that Porfiry suspects him of murder. The investigator tells him that he knows how he went to the pawnbroker’s apartment and asked about the blood, but... everything explains this by Rodion’s mental illness, as if he did all this in delirium. Unable to bear it, Raskolnikov shouts that it was not in delirium, it was in reality!
Porfiry Petrovich continues his confusing monologue, which completely confuses Raskolnikov. Rodion himself both believes and does not believe that he is suspected. Suddenly he shouts that he will no longer allow himself to be tormented: arrest me, they will search me, but please act according to form, and not play with me! At this time, the accused painter Nikolai comes into the room and loudly confesses to the murder he committed. Somewhat reassured, Rodion decides to leave. The investigator tells him that they will definitely meet again... Already at home, Raskolnikov thinks a lot about the conversation with the investigator, remembers the men he waited for yesterday. Suddenly the door opens slightly and the same man stands on the threshold. Raskolnikov freezes, but the husband apologizes for his words. Suddenly Rodion remembers that he saw him when he went to the apartment of the murdered pawnbroker. So, the investigator, other than psychology, has nothing on Raskolnikov?! “Now we’ll fight again,” Raskolnikov thinks.

PART FIVE

Waking up, Luzhin, angry at the whole world, thinks about breaking up with Dunya. He is angry with himself for telling his friend Lebezyatnikov about this, and he is now laughing at him. Other troubles also irritate him: one of his cases in the Senate did not pass, the owner of the apartment demands to pay a penalty, the furniture store does not want to return the deposit. All this increases Luzhin’s hatred for Raskolnikov. Luzhin regrets that he did not give money to Duna and her mother - then they would have felt obligated. Remembering that he was invited to Marmeladov’s wake, Luzhin learns that Raskolnikov should also be there.
Luzhin despises and hates Lebezyatnikov, whom he knows about from the provinces, because he is his guardian. He knows that Lebezyatnikov allegedly has influence in certain circles. Arriving in St. Petersburg, Luzhin decides to get closer to “our younger generations.” In this, in his opinion, Lebezyatnikov can help, although he himself is a simple-minded person. Luzhin has heard about some progressives, nihilists and denouncers, and he is more afraid of denouncers. Andrei Semenovich Lebezyatnikov is a man who seizes on every fashionable idea, turning it into a caricature, although he serves this idea quite sincerely. He dreams of creating a commune, wants to include Sonya in it, he himself continues to “develop” him, surprised that she is too timid and shy with him. Taking advantage of the fact that the conversation was about Sonya, Luzhin asks to call her and gives her ten rubles. Lebezyatnikov is delighted with his action.

“The pride of the poor” forces Katerina Ivanovna to spend at least half of the money left by Rodion on the funeral. His landlady Amalia Ivanovna, with whom they constantly quarreled, helps him in preparations. Ekaterina Ivanovna is unhappy that neither Luzhin nor Lebezyatnikov is there, and is very happy when Raskolnikov arrives. The woman is nervous and excited, she is coughing up blood and is close to hysterics. Worried about her, Sonya is afraid that all this could end badly. And so it turns out - Ekaterina Ivanovna begins to quarrel with the hostess. In the midst of a quarrel, Luzhin arrives. He claims that one hundred rubles disappeared from him when Sonya was in his room. Sonya replies that he himself gave her ten, and she didn’t take anything else. Having come to the girl’s defense, Ekaterina Ivanovna begins to empty Sonya’s pocket, when suddenly money falls out. Katerina Ivanovna screams that Sonya cannot steal, sobs, and turns to Raskolnikov for protection. Luzhin demands to call the police. But he’s happy and publicly “forgives” Sonya. Luzhin’s accusation is refuted by Lebezyatnikov, who says that he himself saw him plant money on the girl. At first he thought that Luzhin was doing this to avoid words of gratitude, from the bottom of his heart. Lebezyatnikov is ready to swear to the police that everything happened like that, but he doesn’t understand why Luzhin needs such a base act. “I can explain,” Rodion suddenly intervenes. He says that Luzhin wooed his sister, Dunya, but quarreled with him. Having accidentally seen how Raskolnikov gave money to Katerina Ivanovna, he told Rodion’s relatives that the young man had given their last money to Sonya, hinting at the dishonesty of this girl and some kind of connection between Raskolnikov and Sonya. Therefore, if Luzhin could prove Sonya’s dishonesty, he could quarrel between Rodion and his mother and sister. Luzhin was driven away.
In despair, Sonya looks at Rodion, seeing him as a protector. Luzhin shouts that he will find “justice.” Unable to bear all this, Sonya runs home in tears. Amalia Ivanovna kicks Marmeladov's widow and children out of the apartment. Raskolnikov goes to Sonya.

Raskolnikov feels that “he must” tell Sonya who killed Lizaveta, and anticipates the terrible torment that will be the consequence of this confession. He is afraid and doubts, but the need to tell everything increases. Raskolnikov asks Sonya what she would do if she had to decide whether Ekaterina Ivanovna or Luzhin should die. Sonya says that she foresaw such a question, but she doesn’t know, doesn’t know God’s providence, and it’s not for her to decide who lives and who doesn’t, she asks Raskolnikov to speak directly. Then Rodion confesses to the deliberate murder of the old woman and the accidental murder of Elizabeth.

“What have you done to yourself! .. Now there is no one more unhappy than you in the whole world,” Sonya screams in despair, hugging Raskolnikov. She will go with him to hard labor! But suddenly she realizes that he has not yet fully realized the horror of what he did. Sonya begins to question Rodion. “I wanted to become Napoleon, that’s why I killed...” says Rodion. It would never have occurred to Napoleon to think about whether to kill the old one or not, if he needed it... He killed just a louse, senseless, disgusting... No, Raskolnikov objects to himself, not a louse, but he wanted to dare and kill … “I needed to find out… am I a louse like everyone else, or a human being? .. Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right... I didn’t have the right to go there, because I’m a louse like everyone else! .. Did I kill the old woman? I killed myself! .. So what's now? ..” - Rodion addresses Sonya.
The girl tells him that he must go out to the crossroads and kiss the ground that he soiled with murder, bow on four sides and say out loud to everyone: “I killed!” Raskolnikov must accept suffering and atone for his guilt with it. But he doesn’t want to repent in front of people who torture each other and also talk about virtue. They are all scoundrels and will not understand anything. “I’m still fighting,” says Raskolnikov. “Maybe I’m a man, and not a louse, and I hastened to condemn myself...” However, Rodion immediately asks Sonya if she will go to see him in prison... The girl wants to give him her cross, but he does not take it: “better later.” Lebezyatnikov looks into the room, he says that Katerina Ivanovna is leaving: she went to her man’s former boss and made a scandal there, came back, beats the children, sews them some hats, is going to take them out into the street, walk around the courtyards, pounding the basin instead , music, so that the children sing and dance... Sonya runs out in despair.

Raskolnikov returns to his closet, he reproaches himself for making Sonya unhappy with his confession. Dunya comes to him, she says that Razumikhin assured her that all the accusations and suspicions on the part of the investigator were groundless. Excited, Dunya assures her brother that she is ready to give him her whole life, if only he will call. Raskolnikov speaks about Razumikhin, praising him as an honest man who knows how to love deeply. He says goodbye to his sister, and she goes away worried. Rodion is overcome by melancholy, a premonition of many years that will pass in this melancholy... He meets Lebezyatnikov, who talks about Katerina Ivanovna, who, distraught, walks the streets, makes children sing and dance, screams, tries to sing, coughs, cries. The policeman demands that order be maintained, the children run away, catching up with them, Katerina Ivanovna falls, her throat begins to bleed... She is carried to Sonya. In the room, near the dying woman’s bed, people gather, among them Svidrigailov. A woman dreams and dies in a few minutes. Svidrigailov offers to pay for the funeral, place the children in an orphanage, and put one and a half thousand in the bank for each person until they reach adulthood. He is going to “pull Sonya out of the hole”... According to him, Raskolnikov begins to guess that Svidrigailov overheard all their conversations. But he himself does not deny this. “I told you that we will get along,” he says to Rodion.
PART SIX

Raskolnikov is in a strange mental state: he is seized by either anxiety or apathy. He thinks about Svidrigailov, whom he has seen several times in recent days. Now Svidrigailov is busy arranging for the children of the deceased Ekaterina Ivanovna and the funeral. Having come to a friend, Razumikhin says that Rodion’s mother is sick, but she still came with Dunya to her son, and no one was at home. Raskolnikov says that Dunya “may already be in love” with Razumikhin. Razumikhin, intrigued by his friend's behavior, thinks that Rodion may be connected with political conspirators. Razumikhin recalls the letter that Dunya received and which excited her very much. Razumikhin also recalls Porfiry Petrovich, who talked about the painter Nikolai, who confessed to the murder. After seeing his friend off, Raskolnikov wonders why Porfiry needs to convince Razumikhin that an artist should.

The arrival of Porfiry himself almost shocks Rodion. The investigator reports that he was here two days ago, but did not find anyone. After a long and vague monologue, Porfiry reports that it was not Nikolai who committed the crime, but confessed only through piety - he decided to accept suffering. Another person killed... killed two, according to the theory, killed. She killed her and couldn’t take the money, but when she managed to take it, she hid it under a stone. Then she came to an empty apartment... half delirious... she killed, but she considers herself an honest person, and despises others... “Yes... who... killed? “- Raskolnikov cannot stand it. “So you killed,” replies Porfiry Petrovich. The investigator says that he is not arresting Raskolnikov because he has no evidence against him yet, and besides, he wants Rodion to come and confess. In this case, he considers the crime to be the result of insanity. Raskolnikov only smiles, he supposedly does not want such a mitigation of his guilt. Porfiry says how Rodion came up with the theory, and now it’s a shame that he fell through, that it turned out not at all original, but insidiously and disgusting... According to the investigator, Raskolnikov is not a hopeless scoundrel, he is one of the people who will endure any torment if only they find “faith or God." When Raskolnikov has done this, he now need not be afraid, but should do what justice requires. The investigator says that he will come to arrest Rodion in two days and is not afraid that he will run away. “You can’t get by without us now,” he tells him. Porfiry is sure that Raskolnikov will admit everything anyway and will decide to accept suffering. And if he decides to commit suicide, let him leave a detailed note, where he will inform about the stone under which he hid the stolen...
After the investigator left, Raskolnikov hurries to Svidrigailov, without understanding why. Svidrigailov heard everything, then went to Porfiry Petrovich, but will he still go? Maybe it won't work at all? What if he has some intentions regarding Dunya and is going to use what he heard from Raskolnikov? They talk in a tavern, Raskolnikov threatens to kill Svidrigailov if he pursues his sister. He claims that he came to St. Petersburg more in relation to women... He considers debauchery an activity no worse than all the others, because there is something natural in it... This is a disease only if you do not know the limits. Otherwise all that was left was to shoot himself. Or does the nastiness of all this not stop Svidrigailov, Rodion asks, has he already lost the strength to stop? Svidrigailov calls the young man an idealist and tells the story of his life...

Marfa Petrovna bought him out of debtor's prison, she was older than Svidrigailov, she was ill with some illness... Svidrigailov did not claim allegiance. They agreed that he would never leave his wife, would not go anywhere without her permission, and would never have a permanent mistress. Marfa Petrovna allowed him to have relationships with the maids, but he promised her that he would never love a woman of his circle. They had quarreled before, but everything somehow calmed down until Dunya appeared. Marfa Petrovna herself took her as a governess and loved her very much. Svidrigailov fell in love with Dunya at first sight and tried not to react to the words of the woman who praised Dunya. The woman Svidrigailova told Duna about their family secrets and often complained to her. Dunya finally felt pity for Svidrigailov as a lost man. And in such cases, the girl certainly wants to be “saved,” resurrected and revived to a new life.

It was at this time that a new girl, Parasha, appeared on the estate, pretty, but very smart. Svidrigailov begins to court her, which ends in a scandal. Dunya asks Svidrigailov to leave the girl. He feigns shame, talks about his fate, and begins to flatter Duna. But it also reveals his dishonesty. As if wanting revenge, Svidrigailov mocks Dunya’s attempts to “revive” him and continues his relationship with the new maid, and not only with her. They quarreled. Knowing about Dunya's poverty, Svidrigailov offers her all his money so that she will run away with him to St. Petersburg. He was unconsciously in love with Dunya. Having learned that Marfa Petrovna somewhere “got this evil... Luzhin and almost staged a wedding,” Svidrigailov was indignant. Raskolnikov argues that Svidrigailov abandoned his intentions regarding Dunya, and it seems to him that he did not. Svidrigailov himself reports that he is going to marry a sixteen-year-old girl from a poor family - he recently met her and her mother in St. Petersburg and still maintains his acquaintance, helping them with funds.
Having finished speaking, Svidrigailov heads towards the exit with a gloomy face. Raskolnikov follows him, worried that he will not suddenly go to Dunya. When it comes to Rodion’s conversation with Sonya, which Svidrigailov dishonestly overheard, Svidrigalov advises Rodion to discard moral questions and go somewhere far away, even offering money for the trip. Or let Raskolnikov shoot himself.

Having finished speaking, Svidrigailov heads towards the exit with a gloomy face. Raskolnikov follows him, worried that he will not suddenly go to Dunya. When it comes to Rodion’s conversation with Sonya, which Svidrigailov dishonestly overheard, Svidrigalov advises Rodion to discard moral questions and go somewhere far away, even offering money for the trip. Or let Raskolnikov shoot himself.

To distract Raskolnikov, Svidrigailov takes a carriage and goes somewhere, but soon lets him go and returns unnoticed. Meanwhile, Rodion, deep in thought, stands on the bridge. Only he passed by Dunya and didn’t notice. While the girl hesitates to call her brother, she notices Svidrigailov, who is beckoning her to him. Svidrigailov asks Dunya to go with him, as if she wants to talk to Sonya and look at some documents. Svidrigailov admits that he knows her brother’s secret. They talk in Svidrigailov's room. Dunya returns to Svidrigailov the letter he wrote, in which there are many hints about the crime committed by his brother. Dunya firmly says that she does not believe in this. Svidrigailov talks about Rodion’s conversation with Sonya, which he overheard. He tells how Rodion killed Lizaveta and the old one, he killed according to the theory that he himself came up with. Dunya wants to talk to Sonya. Svidrigailov, meanwhile, offers his help, he agrees to take Rodion away from here, but everything depends only on Dunya: she will remain with Svidrigailov. Dunya demands that he open the door and let her out. The girl takes out a revolver and shoots, but the bullet only touches Svidrigailov’s hair and hits the wall, she shoots again - it misfires. She throws the revolver in despair: “So you don’t love me? - Sidrigailov asks her. - Never? “Never,” exclaims Dunya. The man silently gives her the key. A moment later he notices the revolver, puts it in his pocket and leaves.
In the evening, Svidrigailov goes to Sonya, talks about his possible departure to America and gives her all the receipts that he left for Katerina Ivanovna’s children, and gives Sonya three thousand rubles. He asks to convey his regards to Raskolnikov and Razumikhin and walks into the rain. Going to see his fiancee, he tells her that he must go and leaves a large sum of money. He wanders the streets, then somewhere on the outskirts he rents a shabby room. He lies and thinks about Dunya, about the suicidal girl, looks out the window for a long time, then walks along the corridor. In the corridor he notices a girl of about five who is crying. He feels sorry for the girl, he takes her to his place and puts her to bed. Suddenly he sees that she is not sleeping, but smiles slyly at him, stretches her hands towards him... Svidrigailov is scared, screams... and wakes up. The girl is sleeping peacefully, Svidrigailov turns out. He stops at the fire tower and specifically in front of the fireman (to be an official witness) shoots himself with a revolver.

In the evening of the same day, Raskolnikov comes to his mother. Pulcheria Alexandrovna talks to him about his article, which she is reading for the third time, but does not understand much of it. The woman says that her son will soon become famous, Rodion says goodbye to him, says that he must go. “I will never stop loving you,” he adds. Dunya is waiting for him at home. “If I considered myself strong before, even if I’m not afraid of shame now,” he tells his sister, he is going to go to the investigator and confess everything. “Aren’t you, by going to suffer, already washing away half of your crime?” - Dunya asks. Raskolnikov is furious: “What crime?” - He shouts. Is it really a crime that he killed the nasty pawnbroker who only harmed people, killed the nasty louse? He doesn’t think about it and doesn’t intend to wash it off! “But you shed blood,” Dunya shouts. “Which everyone sheds... which flows and has always flowed in the world, like a waterfall...” replies Rodion. He says that he himself wanted good and did a hundred, no, thousands of good deeds instead of one stupidity... And this thought is not at all as stupid as it seems now, during the failure... He wanted to take the first step, and then everything would be settled with immeasurable benefit... Why is hitting people with bombs a legal form? - Rodion shouts. “He doesn’t understand my crime!”

Seeing the inexpressible torment in his sister’s eyes, Rodion came to his senses. He asks Dunya not to cry for them and to take care of her mother, he promises that he will try “to be honest and courageous all his life,” although he is a murderer. Later, Raskolnikov, lost in thought, walks down the street. “Why do they love me so much if I’m not worth it! Oh, if only I and no one loved me, and I myself would not love anyone! All this wouldn’t exist,” he argues.
Evening had already come when Rodion came to Sonya. In the morning Dunya came to the girl and they talked for a long time. Sonya waited all day for Rodion in anxiety and excitement. She drove away thoughts of his possible suicide, but they still took over. Then Rodion finally came to her. He is very excited, his hands are shaking, he cannot stop at one thing. Sonya puts a cypress cross on Raskolnikov, and keeps Elizabeth’s copper cross for herself. “Cross yourself, pray at least once,” Sonya asks Rodion. He is baptized. Raskolnikov comes out and on the way remembers Sonya’s words about the crossroads. He trembled all over, remembering this and rushed into the very possibility of this new complete sensation. Tears rolled down his face... He knelt down in the middle of the square, bowed to the ground and kissed the dirty ground with pleasure and happiness... Raskolnikov stood up and bowed a second time. Passers-by laughed at him. He noticed Sonya, who was secretly following him. Raskolnikov comes to the police station, where he learns about Svidrigailov’s suicide. Startled, he goes outside, where he runs into Sonya. With a confused smile, he returns and confesses to the murder.

Epilogue
Siberia. On the banks of a wide river stands a city, one of the administrative centers of Russia... Rodion Raskolnikov has been imprisoned in prison for nine months. A year and a half has passed since his crime. At the trial, Raskolnikov did not hide anything. The fact that he hid the stolen wallet and items under a rock without using them or even knowing how much he stole greatly impressed the judges and investigators. They decided that he committed the crime in a state of temporary insanity. The confession also contributed to a reduced sentence. In addition, attention was paid to other circumstances of the defendant’s life: during his studies, he supported a sick friend with his last funds, and after his death he cared for his second sick father. According to the landlady, during a fire Rodion saved two small children. Finally, Raskolnikov was sentenced to eight years of hard labor. Everyone convinces Pulcheria Alexandrovna that her son has temporarily gone abroad, but she feels some problems and lives only in anticipation of a letter from Rodion; over time, she dies. Dunya marries Razumikhin. Razumikhin continues his studies at the university and in a few years the couple plans to move to Siberia.

Sonya leaves for Siberia with Svidrigailov’s money, writes detailed letters to Dunya and Razumikhin. Sonya often sees Raskolnikov. He, according to her, is gloomy, taciturn, not interested in anything, understands his situation, does not expect anything better, has no hopes, is not surprised by anything... He does not shy away from work, but does not ask for it, and is completely indifferent to food... Raskolnikov lives in a common room. The convicts don't like him. He starts to get sick.

In fact, he has been ill for a long time - mentally. He would be happy if he could blame himself, but his conscience does not see guilt in what he did. He wants to repent, but repentance does not come... Why was his theory worse than others? He is tormented by the thought of why he did not commit suicide. Everyone loves him: “You are the master! You are an atheist,” they tell him. Raskolnikov is silent. He wonders why everyone fell in love with Sonya so much.
Raskolnikov is admitted to the hospital. In delirium, he sees a dream that the world is about to perish due to some unprecedented disease. People go crazy and consider every thought they have to be true. Everyone believes that the truth lies only in him alone. Nobody knows what is good and what is evil. There is a war of all against all. During Rodion’s illness, Sonya often came under the windows of his room, and one day he saw her. After that he was gone for two days. Returning to the prison, Raskolnikov learns that Sonya is sick and lying at home. In a note, Sonya tells him that she will soon get better and will come to him. “When he read this note, his heart beat strongly and painfully.”

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