Crime and punishment summary, last chapter. Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky's novel “Crime and Punishment” by chapters

At the beginning of July, Rodion Raskolnikov, a young man living in extreme poverty, expelled from the university students, walked out of his closet onto the street and slowly, trying to avoid meeting his hostess, headed towards the bridge. His closet was located under the very roof of a five-story building and looked more like a closet than a room. The landlady from whom he rented a room lived on the floor below, in a separate apartment. Every time, passing by the owner’s kitchen, Raskolnikov experienced a “painful and cowardly” feeling, which made him feel ashamed. He was not a downtrodden and cowardly person, but for some time he was in an irritable state, went deep into himself and did not want to see anyone. His depressed mood was caused by poverty.

In recent days, his condition has worsened even more.

However, this time the fear of meeting his creditor struck even him as he went out into the street.

“What business do I want to encroach on and at the same time what trifles am I afraid of!” - he thought with a strange smile. - Hm... yes... everything is in the hands of a person, and yet he still misses it, purely out of cowardice... this is an axiom...

It was incredibly hot outside. The unbearable stuffiness, the smell of brick and dust further shocked the young man’s frayed nerves. The unpleasant smell from the taverns and the occasional drunk who crossed his path completed the gloomy picture. The face of Rodion Raskolnikov, an interesting, thin and slender young man “with beautiful dark eyes,” reflected a feeling of deep disgust and he, falling into deep thought, walked without noticing anything around. Only occasionally did he “mutter something to himself.” At that moment, the young man realized that he had recently become very weak and had not eaten anything for the second day.

He was so poorly dressed that another, even an ordinary person, would have been ashamed to go out into the street in such rags during the day. However, the neighborhood was such that it was difficult to surprise anyone with a suit... But so much malicious contempt had already accumulated in the soul of the young man that, despite all his, sometimes very youthful, ticklishness, he was least ashamed of his rags on the street ...

And meanwhile, when one drunk, who, for some unknown reason and where, was being transported along the street at that time in a huge cart drawn by a huge draft horse, suddenly shouted to him as he passed: “Hey you, German hatter!” - and screamed at the top of his lungs, pointing at him with his hand - the young man suddenly stopped and frantically grabbed his hat... But not shame, but a completely different feeling, even similar to fear, overwhelmed him. - I knew it! - he muttered in embarrassment, - I thought so! This is the worst of all! Some kind of stupidity, some vulgar little thing, could ruin the whole plan! Yes, the hat is too noticeable... It's funny, that's why it's noticeable...

Raskolnikov went to the moneylender to get money as collateral. But this was not his only goal. A plan was brewing in his head, he was mentally and mentally preparing for its implementation. He went to “test his enterprise,” and his excitement grew every minute. The young man already knew how many steps separated his house from the moneylender’s house.

As he climbed the dark and narrow staircase to the pawnbroker's apartment, he noticed that an apartment on her floor was being vacated, therefore, there would only be one occupied one left...

“That’s good... just in case...”, he thought again and called the old woman’s apartment...

He shuddered, his nerves were too weak this time. A little later, the door opened a tiny crack: the tenant was looking through the crack at the newcomer with visible distrust, and only her eyes were visible, sparkling from the darkness. But seeing a lot of people on the landing, she became emboldened and opened the door completely... The old woman stood in front of him silently and looked at him questioningly... She was a tiny, dry old woman, about sixty years old, with sharp and angry eyes, with a small pointed nose and bare hair ...

Incredulity flashed in the old woman's eyes. Raskolnikov kindly greeted her, introduced himself and reminded her that he had visited her a month ago. The old pawnbroker led him into another room with yellow wallpaper, brightly lit by the sun. Entering it, the young man noticed that “then the sun will shine the same way,” and quickly looked around the entire room, trying to remember the location of all objects down to the smallest detail. At the same time, Raskolnikov noted that there was nothing special in the apartment and everything was very clean.

Raskolnikov left a silver watch on a steel chain as collateral. The old woman reminded him that the old mortgage had already expired, and the young man promised her to pay interest for another month. When Alena Ivanovna went out to get the money, Rodion began to wonder how she opened the chest of drawers, where her keys were, etc.

Maybe one of these days I’ll bring you, Alena Ivanovna, one more thing... silver... a good... one cigarette case... just like I’m returning from a friend... - He became embarrassed and fell silent.

Well then, let's talk, father.

Farewell, sir... Are you all sitting at home alone, are your sisters not here? - he asked as casually as possible, going out into the hallway.

What do you care about her, father?

Nothing special. That's what I asked. You are now... Goodbye, Alena Ivanovna!

Raskolnikov left the old woman in embarrassment. As he descended the stairs, he stopped several times, reflecting on the questions that occupied him. Going out into the street, he realized that all his thoughts and intentions were disgusting, vile and vile. Everything planned seemed so disgusting to him that he was horrified. But the mood he was in in the morning became even worse. The feeling of disgust that pressed on his heart when he was just about to go to the old pawnbroker became even stronger, and he walked along the road like a drunk, bumping into passers-by and not noticing anything around him.

He woke up on the next street, near a tavern. Two drunks came out of the door, supporting each other. Raskolnikov had never been to a tavern before, but he really wanted cold beer, and without hesitation he went downstairs.

Rodion sat down in a dark and dirty corner, at a sticky table, asked for beer and greedily drank the first glass. Immediately everything calmed down, and his thoughts became clearer. “This is all nonsense,” he said hopefully, “and there was nothing to be embarrassed about!” Just a physical disorder!..” By this time there were few people left in the tavern. One of those present, “a man who looked like a retired official,” attracted Raskolnikov’s attention.

He sat separately, in front of his vessel, occasionally taking a sip and looking around. He also seemed to be in some excitement.

Lately, Raskolnikov had been avoiding society, but at that moment he wanted to talk to someone.

Something seemed to be new in him, and at the same time he felt some kind of thirst for people. He was so tired from a whole month of this concentrated melancholy and gloomy excitement that although for one minute he wanted to breathe in another world, at least in any world, and, despite all the dirt of the situation, he now happily remained in the tavern.

Raskolnikov and the man who looked like a retired official looked at each other for some time. It was clear that they wanted to talk.

The official looked somehow habitually and even with boredom, and at the same time with a tinge of some arrogant disdain, as if at people of lower status and development, with whom he had no business talking. He was a man over fifty years old, of average height and stocky build, with gray hair and a large bald spot, with a yellow, even greenish face swollen from constant drunkenness and with swollen eyelids, from behind which shone tiny, like slits, but animated reddish eyes . But there was something very strange about him; His gaze seemed to even glow with enthusiasm - perhaps there was meaning and intelligence - but at the same time there seemed to be a flicker of madness.

The official was the first to speak to Raskolnikov. He introduced himself as Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, a titular adviser.

With some kind of greed, he attacked Raskolnikov, as if he had not spoken to anyone for a whole month... His conversation seemed to arouse general, albeit lazy attention... Obviously, Marmeladov had been known here for a long time. And he acquired a penchant for florid speech, probably as a result of the habit of frequent tavern conversations with various strangers...

Marmeladov told Raskolnikov the story of his life: his wife, Katerina Ivanovna, the daughter of a staff officer, the widow of an officer, an educated woman with a noble upbringing, has three children from her first marriage. After the death of her gambler husband, she was left without any means of support and, out of hopelessness, married Marmeladov, an official who soon lost his job, started drinking and has not stopped drinking since then. Marmeladov’s daughter from his first marriage, Sonya, was forced to go to the panel because there was nothing to feed Katerina Ivanovna’s children. Marmeladov himself lived on money that he begged from his daughter and stole from his wife.

Katerina Ivanovna, Marmeladov’s wife, was in the service of a certain Mr. Lebezyatnikov, who treated her roughly and even beat her. Katerina Ivanovna became seriously ill from beatings and disrespectful treatment. Sonya, who earned her living with a “yellow ticket,” was forced to rent a separate apartment because she was kicked out of her previous apartment for indecent behavior.

While talking about his family, Marmeladov was constantly distracted, indulging in unnecessary reasoning and self-flagellation.

Yes! There's no reason to feel sorry for me! I need to be crucified, crucified on a cross, and not pitied! But crucify him, judge, crucify him, and, having crucified him, have pity on him! And then I myself will go to you to die, because I don’t thirst for fun, but for sorrow and tears!.. Do you think, seller, that this half-damask of yours has become a delight for me? I looked for sorrow, sorrow at its bottom, sorrow and tears, and tasted it, and found it; and the one who took pity on everyone and who understood everyone and everything will take pity on us; he is the only one, he is the judge. She will come that day and ask: “Where is the daughter, that her stepmother is evil and consumptive, that she betrayed herself to strangers and minors? Where is the daughter who took pity on her earthly father, an obscene drunkard, without being horrified by his atrocities?” And he will say: “Come! I have already forgiven you once... I have forgiven you once... And now your many sins are forgiven, because you loved so much..." And he will forgive my Sonya, he will forgive, I already know that he will forgive...

Marmeladov was very drunk, and Raskolnikov, realizing that he would not be able to get home on his own, decided to accompany him. Marmeladov's wife opened the door for them.

Raskolnikov immediately recognized Katerina Ivanovna. She was a terribly thin woman, thin, rather tall and slender, still with beautiful dark brown hair and indeed with cheeks flushed to the point of blemishes. She walked back and forth in her small room, clasping her hands on her chest, with parched lips and breathing unevenly, intermittently. Her eyes shone as if in a fever, but her gaze was sharp and motionless, and this consumptive and agitated face made a painful impression, with the last light of the dying cinder fluttering on her face. She seemed to Raskolnikov to be about thirty years old, and really was not a match for Marmeladov... She did not listen to those entering and did not see...

The youngest girl, about six years old, was sleeping. A boy, about a year older than her, sat in the corner and cried, and an older girl, tall and thin, about nine years old, stood next to him and calmed him down. Drunk Marmeladov knelt at the entrance and pushed Raskolnikov forward. Seeing him, Katerina Ivanovna guessed that he had drunk away his last savings and began to scream. She grabbed her husband by the head and dragged him into the room. Marmeladov humbly crawled behind her on his knees. Having scolded her husband, Katerina Ivanovna began shouting at Raskolnikov. One by one, the neighbors who heard the noise began to enter the room, and then the hostess herself, Amalie Lippewechsel, came in and ordered the unfortunate woman to vacate the room tomorrow. Raskolnikov quietly left, leaving a few coins on the windowsill.

“Well, what kind of nonsense have I done,” he thought, “here they have Sonya, but I need it myself.” But having reasoned that it was already impossible to take it back and that, after all, he would not have taken it anyway, he waved his hand and went to his apartment.

“Sonya also needs fudge,” he continued, walking down the street, and grinned sarcastically, “this cleanliness costs money... Hm! But Sonechka, perhaps, will go bankrupt today herself, because the same risk, hunting for the red beast... gold mining... so they are all, therefore, on the beans tomorrow without my money... Oh yeah Sonya! What a well, however, they managed to dig! and enjoy it! That's why they use it! And we got used to it. We cried and got used to it. A scoundrel of a man gets used to everything!”

He thought about it.

Well, if I lied,” he suddenly exclaimed involuntarily, “if man, in general, the whole race, that is, the human race, is really not a scoundrel, then it means that the rest is all prejudices, just false fears, and there are no barriers, and so on and it should be!..

Waking up the next morning, Raskolnikov looked around his “closet” with hatred and irritation. It was a very small room with yellow torn wallpaper and old furniture, which consisted of three old chairs, a painted table that stood in the corner, and a large sofa that occupied almost half the width of the room. This sofa served Raskolnikov as a bed on which he slept, often without undressing. Raskolnikov understood that he had sunk and turned into a sloppy person, but in the mood in which he had been lately, he even enjoyed it. He cut himself off from people; everyone made him angry and irritated.

The landlady had not given him food for two days, but he did not even think of explaining it to her. Only Nastasya, the landlady’s maid, was happy with the young man’s mood - now she didn’t have to clean up for him. That morning she brought Raskolnikov tea and offered him cabbage soup from yesterday. While Rodion was eating, Nastasya sat next to him and chatted. She said that the landlady was going to complain to the police about him for not paying money for the room and not moving out. After some time, Nastasya remembered that he had received a letter yesterday. She quickly brought it and Raskolnikov, after hesitating for a while, printed it out and began to read. It was a letter from his mother, in which she explained why she could not send him money before: she herself and Raskolnikov’s sister Dunya, trying to provide him with what he needed, got into big debts. Dunya had to enter the service of the Svidrigailovs and take a hundred rubles in advance to send to her brother. For this reason, when Svidrigailov began to harass Dunya, she could not immediately leave there. Svidrigailov's wife, Marfa Petrovna, mistakenly blamed Dunya for everything and kicked her out of the house, disgracing her throughout the city. But after some time, Svidrigailov’s conscience awoke, and he gave his wife Dunya’s letter, in which she angrily rejected his advances and stood up for his wife.

Regretting her action, Marfa Petrovna decided to restore the girl’s reputation and began to visit all the city houses. Thus, she managed to restore the girl’s good name, and Dunya was even invited to give private lessons, but she refused. Soon a groom was found for Dunya - court councilor Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, a distant relative of Marfa Petrovna, who was planning to go to St. Petersburg in the near future to open a public law office.

Reading a letter from his mother, who tried in vain to discover at least some positive qualities in the man Dunya agreed to marry, Raskolnikov understood that his sister was selling herself in order to help him finish his studies and get (she hoped for) a job in a law office, which her future husband was going to open in St. Petersburg. Rodion's mother considered Luzhin to be a straightforward person. As proof of this, she cited his words that he wanted to marry an honest girl, but certainly poor and one who had experienced trouble, because, in his opinion, a husband should not owe anything to his wife; on the contrary, a wife should see her benefactor in her husband . At the end of the letter, the mother expressed the hope that Dunya, having gotten married, would be happy, and her husband might be useful to him, Rodion (Dunya was already making plans for how Rodion would become her husband’s companion), and announced that she and Dunya were in They are leaving for St. Petersburg soon. According to her, Pyotr Petrovich, having settled in St. Petersburg, wanted to seal his relationship with Dunya by marriage as soon as possible and have a wedding.

Almost the entire time Raskolnikov read, from the very beginning of the letter, his face was wet with tears; but when he finished, it was pale, twisted with a spasm, and a heavy, bilious, evil smile snaked across his lips. He lay his head down on his skinny and worn-out pillow and thought, thought for a long time. His heart beat strongly, and his thoughts were greatly agitated. Finally he felt stuffy and cramped in this yellow closet that looked like a closet or a chest. The gaze and thought asked for space.

The young man went out into the street and walked forward, talking to himself and not noticing the road. He was impressed by the letter he read, and made a firm decision to prevent his sister from marrying Luzhin. Raskolnikov was convinced that Dunya was getting married only to help him, that is, she was sacrificing herself.

“No, Dunechka, I see everything and I know what you are going to talk to me about a lot; I also know what you thought about all night, walking around the room, and what you prayed about in front of the Kazan Mother of God, who is standing in your mother’s bedroom. It’s hard to climb Golgotha. Hm... So, it’s finally decided: you would like to marry a businesslike and rational person, Avdotya Romanovna, who has his own capital (already has his own capital, this is more solid, more impressive), serves in two places and shares the beliefs of our newest generations (as writes the mother) and “seems to be kind,” as Dunechka herself notes. This seems the most magnificent! And this same Dunechka seems to be getting married for this!.. Magnificent! Fabulous!.."

“Expensive, expensive, Dunechka, this purity!” Well, if later it becomes impossible for you, will you repent? There is so much sorrow, sadness, curses, tears hidden from everyone, how much, because you are not Marfa Petrovna? What will happen to the mother then? After all, she is already restless and tormented; and then, when he sees everything clearly? And with me?.. But what did you really think about me? I don’t want your sacrifice, Dunechka, I don’t want it, mother! It won’t happen while I’m alive, it won’t happen, it won’t happen! Do not accept!"

He suddenly woke up and stopped...

Rodion understood that a lot of time would pass before he finished his studies, got a job and could help his mother and sister. “What will happen to your mother and sister during this time?” - he thought. Asking himself endless questions that tormented his heart, he realized that there was no time to wait. The decisive moment had come and a decision had to be made.

A long time ago, all this current melancholy arose in him, grew, accumulated and recently matured and concentrated, taking the form of a terrible, wild and fantastic question that tormented his heart and mind, irresistibly demanding resolution. Now his mother’s letter suddenly hit him like thunder. It is clear that now it was necessary not to be sad, not to suffer passively, with mere reasoning that the issues were insoluble, but to certainly do something, and now, and as quickly as possible. At any cost, you have to decide, at least something, or...

“Or give up life completely! - he suddenly cried out in a frenzy, - obediently accept fate as it is, once and for all, and strangle everything in yourself, renouncing all right to act, live and love!..”

Raskolnikov was again visited by the thought of the pawnbroker. Suddenly he noticed a drunken girl, almost a girl, in a torn dress, wandering along the boulevard. Rocking in all directions, she reached a bench and sat down on it. Raskolnikov stood opposite the girl, looking at her in bewilderment and pondering how he could help her. A fat “dandy” stopped a few steps from the bench and was about to approach the girl, clearly with dirty intentions. Raskolnikov drove him away and called a policeman, to whom he gave money for a cab to take the girl home. They came to the conclusion that the girl was deceived, drunk, dishonored and thrown out onto the street. The policeman tried to ask the girl where she lived, but she, thinking that she was being pestered, got up from the bench and walked unsteadily forward. The fat gentleman followed her.

“Let it go! This, they say, is how it should be. This percentage, they say, should go every year... somewhere... to hell, it should be, so as to refresh the rest and not disturb them. Percent! Nice, really, they have these words: they are so soothing, scientific. It was said: percentage, therefore, there is nothing to worry about. Now, if there was another word, well then... it would, perhaps, be more worrying... What if Dunechka somehow ends up in the percentage!.. If not one, then another?

Reflecting on the further fate of the girl, Raskolnikov caught himself thinking that, leaving the house, he was going to go to his university friend Razumikhin. When Raskolnikov attended classes at the university, he had almost no friends. He avoided his fellow students, and soon everyone turned their backs on him. They didn’t like him, but they respected him because he worked without sparing himself. Many felt that he was looking down on them. Raskolnikov was more sociable and frank with Razumikhin than with others.

He was an unusually cheerful and sociable guy, kind to the point of simplicity. However, underneath this simplicity lay both depth and dignity. The best of his comrades understood this, everyone loved him. He was very intelligent, although sometimes he was indeed simple-minded. His appearance was expressive - tall, thin, always poorly shaven, black-haired... Raskolnikov had not been with him for four months, and Razumikhin did not even know his apartment. Once, about two months ago, they met on the street, but Raskolnikov turned away and even crossed to the other side so that he would not notice him. And although Razumikhin noticed, he passed by, not wanting to disturb his friend.

But unexpectedly for himself, Rodion decided to go to Razumikhin not now, but “after, when it’s already over...” Raskolnikov’s own decision horrified him. He walked wherever his eyes led him, wandered around the city for a long time, then turned towards the house and, completely exhausted, left the road, fell on the grass and fell asleep.

Raskolnikov had a terrible dream. He dreamed of his childhood, back in their town. He is about seven years old and is walking on a holiday, in the evening, with his father outside the city...

And then he dreams: he and his father are walking along the road to the cemetery and passing a tavern; he holds his father's hand and looks back at the tavern with fear. There is a cart near the tavern porch, but a strange cart...

Harnessed to such a large cart was a small, skinny, dark-haired peasant nag, one of those who - he often saw - sometimes strain themselves with some tall cart of firewood or hay...

But suddenly it becomes very noisy: big, drunken men in red and blue shirts, with saddle-backed army coats, come out of the tavern, shouting, singing, with balalaikas. “Sit down, everyone sit down! - shouts one, still young, with such a thick neck and a fleshy face, red as a carrot, “I’ll take everyone, sit down!” But immediately there is laughter and exclamations...

Everyone climbs into Mikolka’s cart with laughter and witticisms. Six people got in, and there are still more to be seated. They take with them one woman, fat and ruddy. She's wearing red coats, a beaded tunic, cats on her feet, cracking nuts and chuckling.

The two guys in the cart immediately take a whip each to help Mikolka. The sound is heard: “Well!”, the nag pulls with all her might, but not only can she gallop, but she can even barely manage a step; she just minces with her legs, grunts and crouches from the blows of three whips raining down on her like peas. The laughter in the cart and in the crowd doubles, but Mikolka gets angry and, in a rage, strikes the filly with rapid blows, as if he really believed that she would gallop...

Daddy, daddy,” he shouts to his father, “daddy, what are they doing?” Daddy, the poor horse is being beaten!

Let's go, let's go! - says the father, - drunk, playing pranks, fools: let's go, don't look! - and wants to take him away, but he breaks out of his hands and, not remembering himself, runs to the horse. But the poor horse feels bad. She gasps, stops, jerks again, almost falls.

Beat me to death! - Mikolka shouts, - for that matter. I'll spot it!..

Two guys from the crowd take out another whip and run to the horse to whip it from the sides. Everyone runs from their side...

He runs next to the horse, he runs ahead, he sees how it is being whipped in the eyes, right in the eyes! He is crying. His heart rises, tears flow... She is already making her last efforts, but once again begins to kick...

And for those devils! - Mikolka screams in rage. He throws the whip, bends down and pulls out a long and thick shaft from the bottom of the cart, takes it by the end in both hands and swings it with effort over the Savraska...

A heavy blow is heard...

And Mikolka swings another time, and another blow lands with all its might on the back of the unfortunate nag. She sinks all over, but jumps up and pulls, pulls with all her last strength in different directions to take her out; but from all sides they take it with six whips, and the shaft again rises and falls for the third time, then for the fourth, measuredly, with a sweep. Mikolka is furious that she cannot kill with one blow...

Eh, eat those mosquitoes! Make way! - Mikolka screams furiously, throws the shaft, bends down into the cart again and pulls out the iron crowbar. - Be careful! - he shouts and with all his strength he stuns his poor horse. The blow collapsed; The filly staggered, sagged, and wanted to pull, but the crowbar again fell with all its might on her back, and she fell to the ground, as if all four legs had been cut off at once...

Mikolka stands on the side and starts hitting him on the back with a crowbar in vain. The nag stretches out his muzzle, sighs heavily and dies...

But the poor boy no longer remembers himself. With a cry, he makes his way through the crowd to Savraska, grabs her dead, bloody muzzle and kisses her, kisses her on the eyes, on the lips... Then suddenly he jumps up and in a frenzy rushes with his little fists at Mikolka. At that moment his father, who had been chasing him for a long time, finally grabs him and carries him out of the crowd.

Let's go to! let's go to! - he tells him, - let's go home!

Daddy! Why did they... kill the poor horse! - he sobs, but his breath is taken away, and the words burst out in screams from his constricted chest.

They're drunk and acting out, it's none of our business, let's go! - says the father. He wraps his arms around his father, but his chest is tight, tight. He wants to catch his breath, scream, and wakes up...

He woke up covered in sweat, his hair wet with sweat, gasping for breath, and sat up in horror.

“Thank God it’s just a dream! - he said, sitting down under a tree and taking a deep breath. - But what is it? Is it possible that I’m starting to feel a fever: such an ugly dream!”

His whole body seemed to be broken; vague and dark at heart. He put his elbows on his knees and supported his head with both hands.

"God! - he exclaimed, “is it really possible, am I really going to take an ax, hit her on the head, crush her skull... I’ll slide in the sticky, warm blood, pick the lock, steal and tremble; hiding, covered in blood... with an ax... Lord, really?”

He shook like a leaf as he said this.

No, I can’t stand it, I can’t stand it! Let, even if there is no doubt in all these calculations, even if this is all that is decided this month, it is clear as day, fair as arithmetic. God! After all, I still won’t make up my mind! I can’t stand it, I can’t stand it!.. Why, why, still...

Thinking, Rodion came to the conclusion that he would not be able to take an ax and hit him on the head, that he was not capable of this. This thought made his soul feel much lighter.

Passing across the bridge, he quietly and calmly looked at the Neva, at the bright sunset of the bright, red sun. Despite his weakness, he did not even feel tired. It was as if an abscess on his heart, which had been brewing all month, suddenly burst. Freedom, freedom! He is now free from these spells, from witchcraft, charm, from obsession!

Later, when Rodion recalled this time and everything that happened to him, he could not understand why he, tired and exhausted, needed to return home through Sennaya Square, although he could have taken a shorter route. And this circumstance seemed to Raskolnikov “predestination of his fate.”

It passed near Sennaya Square at about ten o'clock in the evening. All the merchants closed their establishments and hurried home, not paying attention to the young man in rags. Near one of the alleys, a tradesman and his wife, who were selling threads, scarves, ribbons, etc., were talking with an acquaintance - Lizaveta Ivanovna, the younger sister of Alena Ivanovna, the same old money-lender to whom Raskolnikov came to pawn his things and whom he so I often remembered.

She was a tall, clumsy, timid and humble girl, almost an idiot, thirty-five years old, who was in complete slavery to her sister, worked for her day and night, trembled before her and even suffered beatings from her. She stood thoughtfully with a bundle in front of the tradesman and the woman and listened to them attentively. They were explaining something to her with particular fervor. When Raskolnikov suddenly saw her, some strange feeling, similar to the deepest amazement, gripped him, although there was nothing amazing in this meeting.

The tradesman and his wife invited Lizaveta to come to them tomorrow evening to discuss some profitable business. Lizaveta hesitated for a long time, but then agreed.

For Raskolnikov, her consent was of particular importance. This meant that tomorrow at seven o'clock in the evening the old pawnbroker would be left at home alone. Rodion came home “as if sentenced to death”... He could not think or reason about anything, and he realized that everything had been decided finally - he had a chance, which could not have been better.

Later, Raskolnikov accidentally learned that a tradesman and his wife invited Lizaveta to their place for a very ordinary matter: one poor family was selling things, and since it was unprofitable to trade in the market, they were looking for a merchant. For Lizaveta this was a common activity. But for Raskolnikov, who had recently become superstitious, this was a special event, a sign from above. Back in the winter, one of his fellow students told Rodion the address of the old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov did not go to her right away because he was giving lessons and he had something to live on. But after some time, he remembered the old woman’s address and decided to pawn his father’s silver watch and a ring with stones, which his sister gave him as a souvenir, to her. Having found the old woman, Rodion at first sight “felt an insurmountable disgust for her.”

On the way home, he went into a tavern, where he overheard a conversation between an officer and a student about this same old woman and her half-sister. The student said that Lizaveta was very kind and meek, worked for the old woman day and night, sewed clothes to order and even hired herself out to wash the floors, gave all the money to her sister, and the old woman, according to her will, was not going to leave her a penny.

“I would kill and rob this old woman... without any remorse,” he added. So many people disappear without support, how much good can be done with an old woman’s money! What does the life of this... evil old woman mean on the general scale?”

The main thing that the student was surprised and laughed at was that Lizaveta was constantly pregnant...

However, when the officer asked the interlocutor if he could kill the old woman himself, he answered “no.” That tavern conversation had a strong effect on Raskolnikov - “as if there really was some kind of predestination, an indication.”

When Raskolnikov returned home, he sat down on the sofa and sat in one position for an hour. It was already dark outside. After some time, the young man felt a chill, lay down on the sofa and fell asleep. Nastasya, who came to see him the next morning, had difficulty waking him up. She brought him tea and bread. Rodion tried to get up, but feeling weak and headache, he fell onto the sofa. After lunch, Nastasya brought him soup and found him in the same state. Left alone, he ate some soup, lay down on the sofa and, burying his face in the pillow, lay motionless for some time. His morbid imagination imagined vague pictures: that he was in Africa, in an oasis where palm trees grew; drinks from a stream of clean, transparent water that runs along the sand...

Suddenly he clearly heard the clock striking. He shuddered, woke up, raised his head, looked out the window, realized the time and suddenly jumped up, completely coming to his senses, as if someone had torn him off the sofa. He tiptoed to the door, opened it quietly and began to listen down the stairs...

However, there were few preparations... Firstly, it was necessary to make a loop and sew it to the coat - a matter of minutes. He reached under the pillow and found in the linen stuffed under it one of his old, unwashed shirts, completely falling apart. From her rags he tore out a braid an inch wide and eight inches long. He folded this braid in half, took off his wide, strong summer coat made of some thick paper material (his only outer dress) and began sewing both ends of the braid under his left armpit from the inside. His hands shook while sewing, but he prevailed, and so that nothing was visible from the outside when he put on his coat again. The needle and thread had already been prepared for a long time and lay in the table, in a piece of paper. As for the noose, it was a very clever invention of his own: the noose was intended for an axe.

Having finished this, he stuck his fingers into the small gap between his “Turkish” sofa and the floor, rummaged around the left corner and pulled out a pawn that had long been prepared and hidden there. This pawn was, however, not a pawn at all, but simply a wooden, smoothly planed board, no more in size and thickness than a silver cigarette holder could be... This was in order to temporarily distract the old woman’s attention when she began to fiddle with the bundle , and thus take a minute. The iron plate was added for weight, so that the old woman would not guess at least at the first minute that the “thing” was wooden. All this was kept under the sofa for the time being...

He rushed to the door, listened, grabbed his hat and began to go down the thirteen steps, carefully, silently, like a cat. The most important task was to steal an ax from the kitchen. He had long ago decided that the job needed to be done with an axe...

So, all you had to do was quietly enter, when the time came, into the kitchen and take the ax, and then, an hour later (when everything was over), enter and put it back...

Having reached the landlady's kitchen, which, as always, was wide open, he carefully glanced sideways into it with his eyes to look around first: was the landlady herself there, in Nastasya's absence, and if not, were the doors in her room well locked, so that she, too, -didn’t anyone look out from there when he came in to get the ax? But what was his amazement when he suddenly saw that Nastasya was not only at home this time, in her kitchen, but was also busy with work: taking laundry out of the basket and hanging it on the clothesline! When she saw it, she stopped hanging it, turned to him and looked at him all the time while he passed. He averted his eyes and walked away as if not noticing anything. But the matter was over: no ax! He was terribly shocked.

“And why did I get the idea,” he thought, going under the gate, “why did I get the idea that she would certainly not be at home at that moment? Why, why, why did I decide this so surely?” He was crushed, even somehow humiliated. He wanted to laugh at himself out of anger... Dull, brutal anger began to boil within him.

He stopped in thought under the gate. It was disgusting for him to go out into the street, just for show; returning home is even more disgusting. “And what an opportunity was lost forever!” - he muttered, standing aimlessly under the gate, right opposite the janitor’s dark closet, also open. Suddenly he shuddered. From the janitor's closet, which was two steps away from him, from under the bench to the right, something flashed into his eyes... He looked around - no one. He walked on tiptoe to the janitor's room, went down two steps and called out to the janitor in a weak voice. “That’s right, there’s no home! Somewhere close, however, in the yard, because the door is wide open.” He rushed headlong at the ax (it was an ax) and pulled it out from under the bench, where it lay between two logs; immediately, without leaving, he attached it to the loop, put both hands in his pockets and left the janitor's room; nobody noticed! “It’s not reason, it’s demon!” - he thought, smiling strangely. This incident encouraged him extremely...

But here is the fourth floor, here is the door, here is the apartment opposite; that one is empty. On the third floor, by all accounts, the apartment directly below the old woman is also empty: the business card nailed to the door has been removed - we've left!.. He was out of breath. For one moment the thought flashed through his mind: “Should I leave?” But he did not give himself an answer and began to listen into the old woman’s apartment: dead silence. Then he listened again down the stairs, listened for a long time, carefully... He could not stand it, slowly extended his hand to the bell and rang it. Half a minute later he called again, louder.

No answer. There was no point in calling, and he was in no shape to do so. The old woman, of course, was at home, but she was suspicious and alone. He partly knew her habits... and once again pressed his ear tightly to the door. Whether his feelings were so sophisticated (which is generally difficult to imagine), or whether it was really very audible, but suddenly he heard a kind of cautious rustling of a hand at the lock handle and a sort of rustling of a dress against the very door. Someone was standing inconspicuously right next to the castle and, just like he was here, outside, listening, hiding from the inside and, it seems, also putting his ear to the door...

A moment later it was heard that the constipation was being removed. The door, as before, opened a tiny crack, and again two sharp and incredulous glances stared at him from the darkness. Seeing that she was standing across the door and not allowing him to pass, he went straight towards her. She jumped back in fear, wanted to say something, but seemed unable to and looked at him with all her eyes.

“Hello, Alena Ivanovna,” he began as casually as possible, but his voice did not listen to him, broke off and trembled, “I brought you... a thing... but it’s better let’s go here... to the light... - And, throwing her, he walked directly into the room without invitation. The old woman ran after him; her tongue became loose.

God! What do you want?.. Who is this? What do you want?

Have mercy, Alena Ivanovna... your acquaintance... Raskolnikov... here, he brought the pledge that he promised the other day... - And he handed her the pledge.

The old woman glanced at the bet, but immediately stared straight into the eyes of the uninvited guest. She looked attentively, angrily and incredulously.

Why are you looking like that, you sure don’t recognize it? - he suddenly said, also with anger. - Take it if you want, but if not, I’ll go to others, I don’t have time.

The old woman came to her senses, and the guest’s decisive tone apparently encouraged her.

Why are you, father, so suddenly... what is it? - she asked, looking at the mortgage.

Silver cigarette case: I said it last time.

She extended her hand.

Why are you so pale? My hands are shaking! Did you take a swim, or what, father?

“Fever,” he answered curtly. “You will inevitably become pale... if there is nothing to eat,” he added, barely pronouncing the words. His strength was leaving him again. But the answer seemed plausible; The old woman took the mortgage.

What's happened? - she asked, once again carefully examining Raskolnikov and weighing the pledge in her hand.

The thing... a cigarette case... silver... look...

Trying to untie the string and turning towards the window, towards the light (all her windows were locked, despite the stuffiness), she completely left him for a few seconds and stood with her back to him. He unbuttoned his coat and released the ax from the loop, but did not take it out completely, but only held it with his right hand under his clothes. His hands were terribly weak; he himself heard how, with every moment, they became more and more numb and stiff. He was afraid that he would let go and drop the ax... suddenly his head seemed to spin.

What has he done here! - the old woman cried with annoyance and moved in his direction.

Not a single moment could be lost. He took out the ax completely, swung it with both hands, barely feeling himself, and almost without effort, almost mechanically, brought the butt down on his head. It was as if his strength was not there. But as soon as he lowered the ax once, strength was born in him. The old woman, as always, was bare-haired. Her blond, grey-streaked, thin hair, greased with oil as usual, was braided into a rat braid and tucked under a fragment of a horn comb sticking out at the back of her head. The blow hit the very crown of the head, which was facilitated by her short stature. She screamed, but very weakly, and suddenly sank to the floor, although she still managed to raise both hands to her head. She still continued to hold the “mortgage” in one hand. Here he struck with all his might, once and twice, all with the butt and all on the crown of the head. Blood gushed out as if from an overturned glass, and the body fell backwards. He stepped back, let him fall, and immediately bent down to her face; she was already dead. The eyes were bulging, as if they wanted to jump out, and the forehead and whole face were wrinkled and distorted by a spasm.

Having placed the ax near the dead woman, Raskolnikov reached into her pocket, from which she usually took out the keys. Trying not to get stained with blood, with trembling hands he took out the keys and ran with them to the bedroom. When he tried to open the chest of drawers standing against the wall with the keys, the thought flashed through his mind that he needed to drop everything and leave. Then he suddenly thought that Alena Ivanovna might be alive, ran up to her and made sure that she was dead.

Suddenly he noticed a string on her neck, pulled it, but the string was strong and did not break... After two minutes of fiddling, he cut the string without touching the body with the ax and removed it; he was not mistaken - the wallet. On the cord there were two crosses, cypress and copper, and, in addition, an enamel icon; and right there with them hung a small, suede, greasy wallet, with a steel rim and ring. The wallet was very tightly stuffed; Raskolnikov put it in his pocket without examining it, threw the crosses onto the old woman’s chest and, this time grabbing the ax, rushed back to the bedroom.

He was in a terrible hurry, grabbed the keys and began to fiddle with them again. But somehow everything was unsuccessful: they did not fit into the locks... He threw the chest of drawers and immediately crawled under the bed, knowing that old women usually put lockers under their beds. And so it is: there was a significant building, more than an arshin in length, with a convex roof, upholstered in red morocco, with steel nails stuck on it. The jagged key just came in and opened... There were golden things mixed between the rags - probably all the mortgages, redeemed and unredeemed - bracelets, chains, earrings, pins, etc. Without hesitating at all, he began to stuff the pockets of his trousers and coat with them, without taking apart or opening the packages and cases; but he didn't have time to gain much...

Suddenly I heard people walking in the room where the old woman was. He stopped and became silent, as if dead. But everything was quiet, so it was all just an illusion. Suddenly a slight cry was clearly heard, or as if someone moaned quietly and abruptly and fell silent. Then there was dead silence again, for a minute or two. He squatted by the chest and waited, barely catching his breath, but suddenly jumped up, grabbed an ax and ran out of the bedroom. Lizaveta stood in the middle of the room, with a large bundle in her hands, looking in a daze at her murdered sister, all white as a sheet and seemingly unable to scream. Seeing him run out, she trembled like a leaf, with small tremors, and convulsions ran all over her face; she raised her hand, opened her mouth, but still did not scream and slowly, backwards, began to move away from him into the corner, intently, point-blank, looking at him, but still without screaming, as if she did not have enough air to scream. He rushed at her with an ax; her lips twisted so pitifully, like those of very small children, when they begin to be frightened by something, look intently at the object that frightens them and are about to scream... She only slightly raised her free left hand, far from her face, and slowly extended it forward towards him, as if pushing him away. The blow hit right on the skull, with its tip, and immediately cut through the entire upper part of the forehead, almost to the crown of the head. She just collapsed. Raskolnikov was completely lost, grabbed her bundle, threw it again and ran into the hallway.

Fear gripped him more and more, especially after this second, completely unexpected murder. He wanted to run away from here as quickly as possible... His hands were bloody and sticky. He lowered the ax with the blade straight into the water, grabbed a piece of soap lying on the window, on a split saucer, and began to wash his hands right in the bucket. Having washed them, he pulled out the ax, washed the iron, and for a long time, about three minutes, washed the wood where it had started bleeding, even testing the blood with soap. Then he wiped everything off with laundry, which was immediately dried on a line stretched across the kitchen, and then for a long time, with attention, he examined the ax by the window. There were no traces left, only the shaft was still damp. He carefully placed the ax in the loop, under the coat. Then, as much as the light in the dim kitchen allowed, he examined the coat, trousers, boots...

He stood, looked and could not believe his eyes: the door, the outer door, from the hallway to the stairs, the same one that he had just rung and entered, stood unlocked, even a full palm ajar: no lock, no lock, all the time, during all this time... He rushed to the door and locked it.

“But no, that’s not it again! We must go, go...”

He was about to take a step onto the stairs, when suddenly new steps were heard again... The steps were heavy, even, unhurried. Now he has passed the first floor, now he has gone up some more; more and more audible! The heavy breathing of the person entering was heard. The third one has already begun... Here! And suddenly it seemed to him that he seemed to have become numb, that it was as if he were in a dream, when he dreams that they are catching up, close, and want to kill him, but he seems to be rooted to the spot and cannot move his hands.

When the guest began to climb up to the fourth floor, he suddenly perked up and managed to quickly and deftly slip back from the hallway into the apartment and close the door behind him. Then he grabbed the lock and quietly, inaudibly, put it on the hinge. Instinct helped. Having finished everything, he hid without breathing, right now at the door. The uninvited guest was already at the door...

The guest rested heavily several times... As soon as the tinny sound of a bell rang, he suddenly seemed to feel as if there was movement in the room. He even listened seriously for a few seconds. The stranger rang the bell again, waited some more, and suddenly, impatiently, began to pull the doorknob with all his might. Raskolnikov looked in horror at the hook of the lock jumping in the loop and waited with dull fear that the lock would pop out any moment...

What are they doing there, are they sleeping or has someone strangled them? Damned ones! - he roared like a barrel. - Hey, Alena Ivanovna, old witch! Lizaveta Ivanovna, indescribable beauty! Open up! Damn, are they sleeping or what?

And again, in a frenzy, he rang the bell ten times at once, with all his might. Of course, he was a domineering and short-tempered man in the house.

At that very moment, suddenly small, hasty steps were heard nearby on the stairs. Someone else came up. Raskolnikov didn’t even hear at first.

Is there really no one? - the person who approached shouted loudly and cheerfully, directly addressing the first visitor, who still continued to pull the bell. - Hello, Koch!

The visitors began to discuss why the door was not opened, since the old woman rarely left the house. When they decided to contact the janitor to find out where the old woman might be, one of the visitors noticed that the door was locked from the inside. They came to the conclusion that something was wrong here, and one of them ran downstairs to get the janitor. The second visitor, after waiting for some time, also left.

Raskolnikov left the apartment, hid in an empty apartment on the third floor, waited until the visitors and the janitor climbed the stairs to the fourth floor and ran out of the house into the street. Dying from fear, he walked “in unsteady memory,” not understanding what was happening around him. Approaching his house, he remembered the ax and put it in its place in the janitor's room, where again there was no one. Finding himself in his room, Raskolnikov exhaustedly threw himself onto the sofa and fell into oblivion.

(13 )

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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See also the work "Crime and Punishment" The originality of humanism F.M. Dostoevsky (based on the novel “Crime and Punishment”) Depiction of the destructive impact of a false idea on human consciousness (based on the novel by F. M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”) Depiction of the inner world of a person in a work of the 19th century (based on the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky “Crime and Punishment”) Analysis of the novel "Crime and Punishment" by F.M. Dostoevsky. Raskolnikov’s system of “doubles” as an artistic expression of criticism of individualistic rebellion (based on F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment”)

Other materials on the works of Dostoevsky F.M. The scene of the wedding of Nastasya Filippovna with Rogozhin (Analysis of an episode from chapter 10 of part four of F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot”) Scene of reading a Pushkin poem (Analysis of an episode from chapter 7 of part two of F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot”) The image of Prince Myshkin and the problem of the author's ideal in the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky's "Idiot"

Retelling plan

1. Raskolnikov’s vague thoughts.
2. His acquaintance with Marmeladov.
3. A letter from home, from which the hero learns that his sister Dunya has been slandered by Svidrigailov and Luzhin wants to marry her.
4. Raskolnikov’s dream, in which the idea of ​​murder is clearly presented.

5. Raskolnikov kills the old pawnbroker and her sister.

6. Rodion’s nervous illness after the crime.

7. Raskolnikov’s acquaintance with Luzhin.
8. Death of Marmelalov. Raskolnikov meets Sonya.
9. Arrival of Raskolnikov’s sister and mother.
10. Raskolnikov’s friend Razumikhin meets Dunya, Raskolnikov’s sister.
11. Funeral service for Marmelalov.
12. Raskolnikov talks with investigator Porfiry Petrovich.
13. Svidrigailov insists on his meeting with Dunya.
14. Meeting of the Raskolnikov family, Razumikhin and Luzhin.
15. Raskolnikov talks about Svidrigailov’s intentions.
16. Date of Rodion and Sonya. Their conversation, overheard by Svidrigailov.
17. New meeting with Porfiry and his “surprise”.
18. Luzhin behaves unworthily towards Sonya. He's exposed.
19. Funeral for Marmeladov. Katerina Ivanovna and her children were kicked out of the apartment.
20. Raskolnikov realizes that he is a murderer. Sonya's speeches after this confession.
21. The madness of Katerina Ivanovna and her death.
22. Porfiry directly asks Raskolnikov about the murder. He doesn't admit it.
23. Svidrigailov tells Duna about the overheard conversation between Rodion and Sonya.
24. Suicide of Svidrigailov.
25. Raskolnikov realizes the need to confess to a crime.
26. Confession of Raskolnikov.
27. The life of Sonya and Rodion in Siberia, where he is serving a sentence in hard labor.
28. Raskolnikov’s mental and physical torment. Hope for revival.

Retelling

Part I

I
The action takes place in 1865. Former law student Raskolnikov is “remarkably good-looking,” but “has fallen and become shabby,” he is “crushed by poverty.” “His closet was right under the roof of a tall five-story building and looked more like a closet than an apartment... And every time the young man passed by, he felt some kind of painful and cowardly sensation, which he was ashamed of and from which he winced.” “The heat outside was terrible, and also stuffy, crowded, everywhere there was limestone, scaffolding, brick, dust and that special summer stench so familiar to every Petersburger... A feeling of deepest disgust flashed for a moment in the thin features of the young man... He He himself was aware that his thoughts were sometimes confused and that he was very weak: it was two days since he had eaten almost nothing. He was so poorly dressed that some, even ordinary people, would be ashamed to go out into the street in such rags during the day.”

The hero thinks a lot about “a certain matter,” the meaning of which remains unclear. He is looking for a way out, not wanting to “accept fate as it is.” Raskolnikov decided to make a “test” for the “enterprise”, thoughts about which arose a month and a half ago. This is the thought of killing the old woman. “He went so deep into himself and secluded himself from everyone that he was afraid even of any meeting,” “he stopped his daily affairs and did not want to deal with them.”

He went to the old pawnbroker: “Well, why am I going now? Am I capable of this? The pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna, an old woman “about sixty years old, with sharp and angry eyes, with a small pointed nose,” demands a “mortgage,” and Raskolnikov will give her a watch and promises to bring another silver cigarette case one of these days. Having left the old woman, the hero condemns himself for the thought that has long haunted him: “Oh God! How disgusting this is!.. And could such horror really come into my head? However, what filth is my heart capable of! The main thing is: dirty, dirty, disgusting, disgusting!..” In upset feelings, he enters the tavern.

II
In the tavern, his attention is attracted by the titular adviser Marmeladov. Judging by the reaction of others, he is a regular at the establishment. He has a swollen, greenish face, reddish eyes, dirty, greasy, red hands with black nails. From Marmeladov’s confused and long speech, the hero learns that he has a wife, Katerina Ivanovna, “an educated and noble woman,” and her three small children, and that she married him out of despair: “You can judge... to what extent her misfortunes reached, that She, educated and well-mannered and with a famous surname, agreed to marry me! But I went! Crying and sobbing, and wringing my hands, I went! Because there was nowhere to go." And he drinks everything to the last penny, repents, but cannot do anything with himself. Five weeks ago I was about to get a job, but again I couldn’t stand it, took the last money out of the house and went on a drinking binge.

Katerina Ivanovna forced Sonya, Marmeladov’s daughter, to “get a yellow ticket” (to go to the panel). Now the whole family lives on the money that Sonya brings. Marmeladov is already beyond despair: “After all, it is necessary that every person can at least go somewhere. For there comes a time when you absolutely have to go somewhere!.. Do you understand, do you understand, dear sir, what it means when there is nowhere else to go? No! You don’t understand this yet...” Raskolnikov accompanies Marmeladov home. “The small, smoky door at the end of the stairs, at the very top, was open. The cinder illuminated the poorest room, ten steps long; all of it could be seen from the entryway. Everything was scattered in disarray, especially various children’s rags...” Raskolnikov witnesses a loud family scene. Katerina Ivanovna brings her anger down on Raskolnikov, considering him a friend of her husband. Raskolnikov leaves the change that was in his pocket on the windowsill for the children.

III
In the morning, after a troubled dream, Raskolnikov eats yesterday's dinner brought by the cook Nastasya and reads a letter from his mother. From the letter he learns that his family has experienced drama. Sister Dunya was slandered in the house of the Svidrigailovs, where she worked as a governess. Hostess Marfa Petrovna caught the scene in the garden where her husband declared his love to Duna. After this, misfortunes began, including eviction from the apartment. But Dunya bravely endured all the humiliation and insults. Later, Mr. Svidrigailov admitted Dunya’s innocence. Now, in the person of Marfa Petrovna, the family acquired a patroness. Through her patronage, my sister began to be invited to lessons. A groom was also found - court councilor Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, “a 45-year-old man, trustworthy and with capital; smart and apparently kind.” He “decided to take an honest girl, but without a dowry and certainly one who had already experienced distress.” Luzhin believes that “a husband should not owe anything to his wife, and it is much better if the wife considers her husband to be her benefactor.” Luzhin is in a hurry with the wedding, as he is going to move to St. Petersburg and open a public law office there. Mother, Pulcheria Raskolnikova, hopes that this will help Rodion make a career. At the end of the letter, the mother reports that she and Dunya are soon going to go to St. Petersburg. The letter touched Raskolnikov and awakened a lot of feelings from compassion to hatred. He could no longer stay in the closet and ran out into the street.

Raskolnikov has been impressed by the letter for a long time. The main thought that is spinning in his head is that Dunechka’s marriage to Luzhin will not happen. He is also outraged by the position of his relatives, who are ready to become related to a calculating and cruel businessman in order to get out of poverty and, most importantly, to help him. And especially the cynical position of Luzhin, who considers it beneficial to marry an educated girl from a poor family. The fate of a sister who does not marry for love is no better than the fate of Sonechka Marmeladova, who sells herself for money, Raskolnikov believes. But he remembers that he is a poor student, a failure, and that he has nothing to oppose Mr. Luzhin’s capital. Thoughts about suicide come to his mind. But the old idea again obscures everything.

V
At first, he decides to go to Razumikhin, a university friend from whom he can always borrow money, but then abandons his intention. Having spent the last thirty kopecks on a glass of vodka and a piece of pie, he falls asleep in the bushes on Vasilyevsky Island, exhausted by thoughts. Raskolnikov has a terrible dream. He sees himself as a seven-year-old child. He and his father walk past a tavern famous for its drunken orgies. There is a cart at the porch, but it is harnessed not to draft horses, but to a skinny peasant nag. Drunken men come out of the tavern, one of whom, Mikolka, invites everyone to get into the sleigh. There are jeers. Mikolka beats the poor nag, which cannot move from its place due to its weight. And the more helpless the horse is, the more the owner becomes berserk - “whip him to death!” The others join in the beating. The nag is suffering, Mikola finishes her off with an ax. The father wants to take the child away, but the boy rushes to the dead horse and kisses it, then jumps up and throws his fists at the healthy man. Raskolnikov wakes up: the secret of a long-cherished murder plan has been revealed. The dream had such an effect on him that he abandoned his initial idea in horror: “Can it really be, can I really take an ax and start hitting him on the head... No, I can’t stand it! Let, even if there is no doubt in all these calculations, even if this is all that is decided this month, it is clear as day, fair as arithmetic. God! After all, I still won’t make up my mind!”

Walking along Sennaya Square, at the bazaar he meets the sister of the old money-lender Lizaveta. The merchants persuade her to make some kind of deal secretly from her sister. From the conversation, he accidentally learns that tomorrow at seven o’clock in the evening the old woman will be left at home alone, and he feels “that he no longer has freedom of mind or will” and “everything has been decided finally.”

VI
“The last day, which came so unexpectedly and decided everything at once, had an almost mechanical effect on him: as if someone had taken him by the hand and pulled him along, irresistibly, blindly, with unnatural strength, without objection. It was as if he had caught a piece of clothing in the wheel of a car, and he began to be pulled into it.” Raskolnikov recalls how the idea of ​​killing the old woman was born. He learned the address from a conversation he overheard in a tavern with one of the students. He told a friend about a small and vicious old money-lender from whom you can always get money. She has a half-sister, a healthy and strong girl, Lizaveta, who is completely subordinate to the weak old woman. The student considered it unfair that a harmful, suspicious old woman who brings no benefit to society should own untold wealth. “Kill her and take the money, so that with their help you can devote yourself to serving all of humanity... Do you think that one tiny crime will not be atoned for by thousands of good deeds? In one life - thousands of lives saved from rot and decay. One death and a hundred lives in return - but this is arithmetic! And what does the life of this consumptive, stupid and evil old woman mean on the general scale? Nothing more than the life of a louse or a cockroach, and it’s not worth it, because the old woman is harmful. She eats up someone else’s life.”

Raskolnikov catches himself thinking that this is close to his views. He spends the rest of the day and the next day delirious. He prepares the braid for the ax and sews it to the left sleeve of his coat, and pulls out the hidden pawn from under the floor. Then he hears that it is seven o’clock. Without incident, he managed to take the ax from the janitor's room and headed to Alena Ivanovna's house.

VII
Raskolnikov behaves nervously, and this mood is transmitted to the old woman. She doesn't trust him. Raskolnikov hands her the pledge - a silver cigarette case. She turns to the window to get a better look at the thing. At that moment, Raskolnikov “took out an ax... waved it with both hands, barely feeling himself... almost mechanically brought the butt down on his head.” He takes the keys from the dead woman and goes to her room. There, in a hurry, he puts bundles of mortgages into his pockets. And then a slight noise attracts his attention. Running out, he sees Lizaveta, who is bending over the murdered old woman. He is confused by the unexpected turn of events. Raskolnikov kills her too. He remembers her defenseless, childish eyes. Finally, he controls himself, washes his hands, washes the axe, examines himself and gets ready to leave. Then he discovers that the door was open, and immediately hears footsteps on the stairs. He manages to put the lock on the loop. One client came to the old woman, then another. They find it strange that no one is home and the door is locked. One of them decides to go down to get the wipers and asks the other to guard the door. Without waiting for help, the client leaves.

When Raskolnikov goes down the stairs, he hears those who have left returning. And again he is lucky. He manages to hide in an empty apartment on the floor below.

Part II

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The next day he slept until three in the afternoon. And only then did he realize that he had not hidden the things he had taken from the old woman. He began to feverishly sort through them, wash off the blood, cut off the fringe stained with blood. There was a knock on the door. Nastasya brought him a summons from the police office. She found him sick and offered him tea. But Raskolnikov refused. He went to the office, thinking along the way about why the policeman had called him. At the office it turned out that the landlady, through the police, was collecting money from him for the apartment. He tries to win over the clerk and the assistant warden. They take a receipt from him and an obligation to pay. As he leaves, he hears people talking about yesterday's murder. He faints before reaching the door. They revive him, decide that he is sick, and send him home.

II
The thought of a search is spinning in Raskolnikov’s fevered brain. He comes home, again stuffs all his things into his pockets and goes outside. He decides to throw them into the water, but everywhere is crowded. Finally, on one of the streets between the gate and the adjacent wall, he discovers a hiding place. He puts things there. On the way back, he catches himself thinking that he didn’t even ask what was in the wallet and mortgages. “Why did you endure all the torment and do such a vile, low, disgusting thing?” His feet led him to Razumikhin's house. He could not explain the purpose of the visit. I took the German translation, but then came back and put it back. Razumikhin considered him sick. Going out into the street, he almost fell under a stroller. The merchant's wife sitting in it mistakes him for a beggar and gives him two kopecks. Raskolnikov throws him into the Neva. “It seemed to him that it was as if he had cut himself off from everyone and everything at that moment with scissors.” At night he wanders. It seems to him that the assistant warden is beating the landlady. In the morning, in front of Nastasya, he falls into unconsciousness.

III
Raskolnikov woke up in his apartment a few days later. In the room are Nastasya, Razumikhin, the artel worker who brought him a translation from his mother. Razumikhin told him that he had vouched for the apartment debt. He also learned that clerk Zametov, whom he met at the police station, became his frequent guest. He himself volunteered to get to know his friends better. Razumikhin says that he showed increased interest in his things and helped look after him. After Razumikhin leaves, Raskolnikov examines things, the stove, the wall, to see if there are traces of a crime left there. Razumikhin returns with new clothes for his friend.

IV
Zosimov, another friend, a medical student, appears on the threshold of the room and states that the patient’s health is improving. Word by word, the conversation returns to the murder of the pawnbroker and her sister. Raskolnikov learns that many people were suspected: the dyer Mikola from the empty apartment where Raskolnikov was hiding, and the clients who almost caught him at the crime scene. They began to suspect Krasilytsikov because of the earrings that they found on the street and fought. Raskolnikov is convinced that the investigation is going in the right direction. The killer was in the pawnbroker's apartment when Koch and Pestryakov came knocking, then hid in an empty apartment and dropped the box with earrings on the street.

V
The conversation is interrupted by an unexpected visit. An unfamiliar gentleman appeared on the threshold of Raskolnikov’s room, who turned out to be Dunya’s fiancé, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin. He said that not far from him he had found temporary housing for his mother and sister, as well as an apartment in which the young people would live after the wedding. Pyotr Petrovich makes an unfavorable impression on his friends. First of all, with your theory: “love yourself first of all, for everything in the world is based on personal interest.” They interrupt the conversation, not wanting to engage in a discussion with him. The conversation returns to the murder of the old woman. Raskolnikov learns that a certain Porfiry is interrogating the pawnbrokers. Zosimov believes that the killer is experienced and dexterous. Razumikhin objects to him: awkward, inexperienced, and this was the first step. “And he didn’t manage to rob, he only managed to kill.”

Luzhin, who was about to leave, decided to finally insert a few clever words about morality. Here Raskolnikov can’t stand it and says that the murder fits into Luzhin’s theory: “According to your theory!.., bring to the consequences what you preached just now, and it turns out that people can be killed...” Raskolnikov is also tormented by something else: “The truth Or, what did you tell your bride that what you are most happy about is... that she is a beggar... because it is more profitable to take a wife out of poverty, so that you can then rule over her... and reproach her for the fact that you have benefited her?..” Luzhin is outraged that Pulcheria Alexandrovna told Raskolnikov about this and distorted the meaning of his words. Raskolnikov promises to throw him down the stairs for saying bad things about his mother. Luzhin says that now there can be no question of continuing the relationship.

VI
Left alone, Raskolnikov changed clothes, took twenty-five rubles left for him by his friends, and walked around the city. On the way, he stopped at the Crystal Palace tavern. There he ordered newspapers and tea. Zametov approached him and again began to provoke him into conversation. Raskolnikov accepted the challenge. He deliberately turned the conversation to the murder of the old woman, told what he would do with the money, how he would cover his tracks. Under the guise of “this is what I would do,” he talked about the hiding place where he hid the mortgages he took from the old woman. He shocks Zametov, who calls him crazy. Raskolnikov continues: “What if it was I who killed the old woman and Lizaveta?” Zametov hastily says that he does not believe in Raskolnikov’s involvement. Raskolnikov receives confirmation that he was one of the suspects. As he leaves, on the threshold he runs into Razumikhin, who scolds him for unauthorized walks. Razumikhin invites him to a party. Raskolnikov refuses. Walking around the city, he comes to a bridge. Looking down at the water, he thinks about suicide. Suddenly, next to him, a young woman throws herself into the water. She is rescued. Seeing this picture, he rejects his idea. Without knowing why, he reaches the house of the old pawnbroker and goes up to the rooms. It's undergoing renovations. He makes a strange impression on the workers with his talk of murder. He is driven away. While wondering whether or not to go to Razu-mikhin, he hears a noise on the street nearby. He goes there.

VII
The stroller crushed the man. A crowd of onlookers gathered around, the police, the coachman made excuses. Raskolnikov, leaning closer, recognized him as his casual acquaintance Marmeladov. He volunteered to show the way to his house. When Marmeladov was carried into the room, Katerina Ivanovna desperately cried out: “I got it!” - and rushed to her husband. She began to fuss over him and sent one of her daughters, Polechka, to fetch Sonya. Almost all the residents poured out of the inner rooms and at first they crowded only in the doors, but then they poured into the room in a crowd. Katerina Ivanovna went into a frenzy. “At least they let me die in peace! - she shouted to the whole crowd, - what a performance they found! Out! At least have some respect for the dead body!” Raskolnikov suggests calling a doctor. The doctor says there is no hope. The priest arrives for the last confession. Sonechka Marmeladova appears on the threshold of the room. Raskolnikov notes that she looks very ridiculous in her cheap but flashy outfits in the squalid surroundings. She still does not dare to approach her father. Marmeladov's gaze stops at his daughter, he asks her for forgiveness and dies. Raskolnikov gives Katerina Ivanovna all the money he has left for the funeral. Polechka catches up with him on the threshold; he gives her his address. On the way home, he feels that his illness is receding: “My life has not died yet with the old woman.”

Raskolnikov comes to Razumikhin’s party, he volunteers to accompany him. When they approach Raskolnikov's house, they see a light in his room. Rodion invites his friend to witness he doesn’t know what. But in his room he sees his mother and sister. The joy of the meeting is interrupted by Raskolnikov's fainting.

Part III

I
Raskolnikov comes to his senses and asks his family to leave him. The conversation turns to Luzhin. Raskolnikov demands that his sister refuse him and sets the condition: “or he. or me". An argument arises between him and Dunya. His mother doesn't want to leave him alone. She is disturbed by the talk about his madness. Razumikhin convinces them to leave him until the morning. After the party, in an excited state, Razumikhin tells Duna a lot of unpleasant things about the groom: “he’s not a match for you.” Razumikhin likes Dunya.

II
The next morning, getting ready to visit Raskolnikov’s relatives, Razumikhin scolds himself for his incontinence. With all his appearance and behavior he is trying to prove to Duna that she does not care about him at all. Again the conversation turns to Raskolnikov. Razumikhin says that Rodion is “an intelligent person, but gloomy, gloomy, arrogant and proud, he doesn’t love anyone and is unlikely to love anyone.” As for the behavior with Luzhin, he accuses Raskolnikov of unrestrained behavior. He asks Dunya to apologize for his words about her fiancé. Pulcheria Alexandrovna gives Luzhin’s note to Razumikhin to read. He writes that he wants to visit them in the evening, but asks that Raskolnikov not be there. She asks Razumikhin for advice. He offers to go to Raskolnikov so that everyone can decide together.

III
At Raskolnikov's they meet Zosimov, who states that he is almost healthy. They ask Raskolnikov about the incident with Marmeladov. Pulcheria Alexandrovna reports that patroness Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova has died. The conversation turns to her gifts to Dounia and about Luzhin, who has not yet given the bride a single gift. Rodion and Dunya again have a quarrel over the groom. But then suddenly Raskolnikov’s mood changes sharply, and he tells her: “Marry whoever you want.” His mother conveys Luzhin's request to him. He agrees to do as his mother and Dunya decide. But Avdotya Romanovna had already decided that Rodion must be on this date.

The door of Raskolnikov's room opened and a girl entered. Raskolnikov did not immediately recognize Sonechka Marmeladova without her bright, flashy outfits. She came to invite Raskolnikov to his father’s funeral service and wake. Raskolnikov introduced her to her mother and sister. The women were embarrassed, since Sonya's reputation did not allow them to be on equal terms. When they leave, Dunya bows to her “with an attentive and complete bow.” In private, Pulcheria Alexandrovna says that the girl made an unpleasant impression on her, especially after what Luzhin wrote about her. Dunya calls him a “gossip” and Sonya “beautiful.” Raskolnikov, having heard about the interrogation of the pawnbrokers by Porfiry Petrovich, asks to introduce him to him. He wants to return his sister's ring and his father's silver watch.

Sonya left Raskolnikov. She is being pursued by a man who speaks to her. In the future, this meeting will be decisive for the heroes.

V
Razumikhin and Raskolnikov head to Porfiry Petrovich. On the way, Raskolnikov, noticing his friend’s sympathy for his sister, makes fun of him.

Raskolnikov's main goal is to find out whether Porfiry knows about his recent visit to the old woman's house after the murder. There they meet Zametov. Raskolnikov learns that he is the last pawnbroker with whom Porfiry has not yet spoken. From the conversation, he understands that his involvement in the murder seems most likely to them. He gets annoyed. Porfiry Petrovich's warning behavior alarms him. Porfiry recalls Raskolnikov’s article published in Periodical Speech. For Rodion this is a discovery. He took the article to another newspaper and was convinced that it had not been published. Porfiry leads Raskolnikov to discuss his theory of “trembling creatures” and “having the right.” According to it, ordinary people must live in obedience and have no right to break the law. And an extraordinary person, who can say a new word in his environment, “has the right... to allow his conscience to step over... other obstacles, if the fulfillment of the idea requires it.” Razumikhin intervenes in the conversation: “after all, this permission for blood, according to conscience, is more terrible than the official permission to shed blood, legal...” Porfiry tries to catch Raskolnikov in the details. He asks if he saw the dyers on his visit to the old woman’s house. Raskolnikov is afraid of falling into a trap and hesitates to answer. Razumikhin comes to his senses and shouts: “But the dyers were painting on the very day of the murder, but he was there for three days!” Porfiry pretends to be embarrassed and kindly says goodbye to his friends.

“Both went out gloomy and gloomy into the street and did not say a word for several steps. Raskolnikov took a deep breath..."

VI
Raskolnikov and Razumikhin approached the house where Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya lived. Raskolnikov assures his friend that Porfiry and Zametov suspect him. Razumikhin promises to talk “in a kindred way” with Porfiry about suspicions against Raskolnikov. Rodion decides to return to his place before going to his family. When he approaches the house, some passerby calls him a murderer and leaves. This is enough for the fever to make itself felt again. He again remembers the details of the murder, tries to remember how this gentleman could know everything. He condemns himself for weakness. “How dare I, knowing myself, anticipating myself, take an ax and get bloody?” He understands that suffering for the crime he committed will always accompany him.

He falls asleep. He dreams of that unfamiliar silent man. He beckons him with his hand and leads him to the old woman’s apartment. Suddenly he discovers an old woman sitting in a chair, takes an ax and hits her on the head, but the old woman only laughs. He starts to run, but there are a lot of people everywhere, they are silent and look at him disapprovingly. He woke up. A man came to him, whom he at first mistook for a dream. He introduced himself as Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov.

Part IV

I
Raskolnikov unkindly receives Svidrigailov, remembering the story with his sister. Svidrigailov tells how Marfa Petrovna freed him from certain prison for cheating and that they lived together. He feels a kindred spirit in Raskolnikov, believes that they are “birds of a feather,” that there is a “common point” between them.

Raskolnikov laughs and advises him to go to the doctor. Svidrigailov asks for a meeting with Dunya. Marfa Petrovna left Duna three thousand rubles. In addition, he himself wants to give her ten thousand for the inconvenience and insults that she suffered through his fault. Svidrigailov insists on meeting with Dunya. Raskolnikov refuses.

II
In the evening, Razumikhin and Raskolnikov go to Duna and Pulcheria Alexandrovna. On the way, Razumikhin reports a conversation with Porfiry, who did not say anything definite about his suspicions.

Luzhin wants to talk about the upcoming wedding, but finds it impossible to do this in front of Raskolnikov. He reprimands the women that they neglected his demand not to invite Raskolnikov. Dunya tries to reconcile her brother with Luzhin, proving that she cannot and will not make a choice between her brother and her fiancé. Luzhin, in anger, says that she does not value her happiness, reminds her of material costs, communication with unworthy people, meaning Sonya Marmeladova. A quarrel breaks out between them. Dunya asks Luzhin to leave.

III
Luzhin did not expect a break. He was very happy with Dunya as a bride and wife. He still hopes to improve matters. Dunya completely reconciles with her brother and accuses herself of being flattered by the money of an unworthy person. Raskolnikov talks about Svidrigailov's intentions. Dunya is amazed by his proposal and believes that he is planning something terrible. Raskolnikov promises his sister that he will definitely meet him. They are making plans for the three thousand left to Dunya by Marfa Petrovna. Razumikhin suggests going into book publishing. Everyone is passionate. Suddenly, in the middle of the conversation, Raskolnikov gets up and declares that he loves them very much, but for a while it is better for them to separate and not see each other. They are scared. He entrusts them to the care of his friend. Razumikhin calms everyone down and says that Rodion is sick.

IV
Raskolnikov came to Sonya to say goodbye. He tests his theory on Sonya, trying to prove to her that her sacrifice was in vain. In his opinion, it would be fairer to die. Sonya says that she cannot leave her family, they will be lost without her. Suddenly Raskolnikov bowed at Sonya’s feet: “I didn’t bow to you, but to all human suffering.” On Sonya’s chest of drawers lies the New Testament, brought by the late Lizaveta. Sonya's friendship with the murdered woman amazes him. He asks to read him the Gospel about the resurrection of Lazarus. “The cinder has long gone out in the crooked candlestick, dimly illuminating in this beggarly room a murderer and a harlot, strangely gathered together to read an eternal book.” Unexpectedly, Raskolnikov told Sonya that he had come “to talk about business”: “Today I abandoned my family, now I have only you. We are cursed together, we will go together.” He promises to come tomorrow and say who killed Lizaveta. His feverish mood was transmitted to Sonya, and she spent the whole night delirious. In the next room, Svidrigailov overheard their entire conversation.

The next morning, Raskolnikov came to the police station to see Porfiry. He said that he had brought a paper asking for the things to be returned. Raskolnikov feels that Porfiry is testing him again. And he can’t stand it: “I finally see clearly that you suspect me of murdering this old woman and her sister Lizaveta.” Raskolnikov becomes hysterical. Porfiry calms him down, says that Raskolnikov is sick and needs to be treated. Raskolnikov accuses him of lying and playing games. He demands that Porfiry directly recognize him as either a suspect or innocent. He again avoids answering. Porfiry talks about a certain “surprise” that is in the next room. Suddenly something happens that no one expected.

VI
They brought the dyer Nikolai. He publicly admits to killing the old woman. Game continues. Porfiry and Raskolnikov both did not expect such a development of events. Raskolnikov leaves, but then analyzes the whole conversation for a long time. He catches himself thinking that he almost gave himself away. Remembering that today is the day of Marmeladov’s funeral, he goes to them to see Sonya. Suddenly the door to his room opened on its own, and a mysterious man appeared on the threshold. Just as quietly and laconicly, he asked him for forgiveness “for the slander and malice.” As it turns out, this would be one of the people who heard stories about the murder in the apartment during a visit after the murder. It was a misunderstanding. He admitted that he was Porfiry’s surprise. The hero is happy about this turn of events.

Part V

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Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin regrets the break with Dunya, blaming her brother for everything. He decides to take revenge. He rents a room next to the Marmeladovs. Luzhin asks his neighbor Lebezyatnikov to bring Sonya to him. He explains to her that there is no way to receive government help, since Marmeladov served little and poorly. He apologizes that he will not be able to come to the wake, and gives her a ten-ruble note.

Katerina Ivanovna, guided by the “pride of the poor,” organized a decent wake. But most of those invited did not show up. Raskolnikov arrived. She is irritated and in excitement quarrels with the owner Amalia Ivanovna. It almost comes to a fight. At that moment Luzhin appears.

III
He accuses Sonya of stealing a hundred-ruble bill, citing Lebezyatnikov’s testimony. Sonya is at first lost, but then denies the accusations, giving him his ten rubles. Katerina Ivanovna, outraged by the attacks on Sonya, rushes to her and turns out her pockets. The missing bill falls out of one pocket. Sonya cries in confusion. Lebezyatnikov comes in the middle of the stage. He calls Luzhin a “slanderer.” He saw Luzhin toss the paper to her, but he thought it was for noble reasons. Raskolnikov, who had been silent until then, explains that Luzhin wanted to take revenge on him, since “the honor and happiness of Sofia Semyonovna are very dear to me,” and to prove to his mother and sister that he was right. Luzhin threatens everyone with the police and the court. Sonya runs away to her home. The landlady kicks Katerina Ivanovna and her children out of the apartment.

V
At this moment Lebezyatnikov arrives and reports about Katerina Ivanovna’s madness. Raskolnikov returns home and sees Dunya there. She says that she understands his strange actions, since he is suspected of murdering an old woman. He asks Dunya to pay attention to Razumikhin - “he is businesslike, hardworking, genuine, capable of loving deeply.”

Raskolnikov wanders around St. Petersburg again. Katerina Ivanovna makes children walk the streets, sing, dance and collect alms. The children run away from her. Rushing after them, she falls, blood coming down her throat. She is taken to Sonya, where she dies. Her dying words: “What? A priest?.. No need... Where do you have an extra ruble?.. I have no sins!.. God must forgive anyway... He himself knows how I suffered!.. But if he doesn’t forgive, then there’s no need !.. ...They drove away the nag... She was overstrained!”

Svidrigailov appears. He is going to give the ten thousand that Dunya does not accept from him to the Marmeladovs.

Part VI

I
Katerina Ivanovna is buried. Raskolnikov understands that Sonya is not changing her attitude towards him. Razumikhin informs Rodion that his mother is sick, and Dunya received an unknown letter. He decides to meet with Svidrigailov to understand his intentions regarding his sister.

II
At the door he encounters Porfiry, who has come to him. Porfiry tells him how he began to suspect him. He directly says that there is no evidence against Raskolnikov. Trying to expose him, he relied on psychology and character. He admits that he searched his apartment, provoked him in every possible way, and apologizes for this. But he immediately says that Nikolai, who slandered himself, is not guilty. He is a schismatic, and for religious fanatics it is grace to accept suffering from the authorities. Crime has a different style. An agitated Raskolnikov asks Porfiry who killed. “Yes, you killed him, Rodion Romanych,” the investigator answers him in a whisper. He says that he wants the best for him and advises him to come confess. He gives him two days to think about it. Raskolnikov does not admit to the murder.

III, IV
The hero goes to Svidrigailov and meets him in the tavern. They talk about Duna. Raskolnikov follows Svidrigailov. He is sure that he is plotting something against his sister. Dunya is waiting for him at Svidrigailov’s house. But Raskolnikov doesn’t see her. Dunya asks her former owner on the street to explain the case for which he invited her on a date. But Svidrigailov insists on talking in his apartment. Dunya reluctantly agrees. There he shows her the empty room where he overheard Sonya’s conversation with Raskolnikov, and conveys the essence. Svidrigailov offers her the salvation of her brother in exchange for love. Dunya doesn’t believe him and wants to leave. But the door is locked and the house is empty. She takes a ladies' revolver out of her pocket, shoots several times and misses. Svidrigailov approaches Dunya. She throws the revolver, since she cannot kill, and asks to be released. A moment of struggle in Svidrigailov’s soul, and he gives her the key. Dunya leaves. He picks up the revolver she dropped.

V
Svidrigailov spends the entire evening in taverns. On the way back, he visits Sonya and reports that the children have been placed in a good boarding school. He gives her three thousand rubles, which she and Raskolnikov will need in hard labor. He leaves that evening and rents a hotel room. In a dream, he dreams of a teenage girl who once died due to his fault. At night he leaves the hotel, takes out Dunya’s revolver and shoots himself in the temple.

VI
Raskolnikov decides to accept punishment. He goes first to his mother and finds her alone at home. He seems to be saying goodbye, saying that he has always loved and will love him and Dunya. He asks to pray for him. When he returns, he sees Dunya. He tells her that he is going to the police station to confess to a crime. Theory still holds him. He does not feel guilty that he killed “the nasty, malicious old woman who sucked the juice out of the poor.” He condemns himself for his cowardice, for failing to overcome murder. Suddenly something stops him in his sister's gaze. He asks her for forgiveness and promises to start a new life.

VII
Raskolnikov comes to Sonya. She puts her cypress cross on it. On the way to the station, he remembers the words of Sonya, who invited him to repent: “Go to the crossroads, kiss the ground and tell the whole world out loud: I am a murderer!” He does just that. He is mistaken for drunk. At the station he meets Ilya Petrovich Porokh, whom he met during his first visit for apartment debts. Gunpowder informs him about Svidrigailov’s suicide. Raskolnikov is shocked. He's leaving. In the yard he sees Sonya, who has come for him. He cannot stand her gaze, returns and confesses to the murder: “It was I who killed the old official woman and her sister Lizaveta with an ax and robbed her.”

Epilogue

I
Raskolnikov has been serving his sentence in Siberia for a year and a half. Taking into account the confession, as well as the “strange behavior” and unstable health of the killer, the court sentenced him to eight years of hard labor. “The criminal not only did not want to justify himself, but even seemed to express a desire to accuse himself even more.” It turns out that Raskolnikov is a sympathetic, kind person who acutely perceives the pain of others. It turns out that he once risked his life to save children in a fire and shared his meager pennies with the poor father of a deceased comrade. Raskolnikov's mother, never understanding what was going on, first goes crazy and then dies. Sonya goes to hard labor for Raskolnikov.

Dunya marries Razumikhin. He intends to save some money and go to Siberia so that everyone can start a new life together. Sonya writes in a letter to Raskolnikov’s relatives “that he is alienated from everyone, that in prison the convicts did not like him; that he is silent for whole days and becomes very pale. Suddenly, in her last letter, Sonya wrote that he was very seriously ill and was in the hospital.”

II
He suffers from a disease “from wounded pride.” He is ashamed that he mediocrely ruined his life, but does not repent of the correctness of his theory: “He judged himself strictly, and his hardened conscience did not find any particularly terrible guilt in his past, except perhaps a simple mistake.” He looks for mistakes in his actions and condemns himself for turning himself in. Even Svidrigailov seems stronger to him, because he managed to die.

Raskolnikov “was not loved and avoided by everyone. In the end they even began to hate him... Those who were much more criminal than him despised him and laughed at him. “You are a master! - they told him. - Did you have to walk with an axe? It’s not a lordly thing at all...” “You’re an atheist! You don't believe in God! - they shouted to him. “We need to kill you.”

But they all fell in love with Sonya. “She didn’t curry favor with them; everyone already knew her, and they also knew that she had followed him. She didn’t give them money or provide any special services. Only once, at Christmas, she brought alms to the whole prison: pies and rolls. And when she met a party of prisoners going to work, everyone took off their hats, everyone bowed: “Mother, Sofya Semyonovna, you are our mother, tender, sick!” - these rude, branded convicts said to this small and thin creature. She smiled and bowed, and they all loved it when she smiled at them. They even loved her gait, turned to look after her as she walked, and praised her; They even praised her for being so small; they didn’t even know what to praise her for. They even went to her for treatment.”

Raskolnikov's recovery was difficult. Pieces of his theory came to him in his delirium. He saw wars, massacres, when only the most “pure and chosen” were saved. “He did not understand that this premonition could be a harbinger of a future turning point in life, a future resurrection, a new outlook on life.” After his recovery, Sonya falls ill. Raskolnikov is worried about her.

One day he was sitting on a steep river bank, and suddenly Sonya was nearby. She timidly extended her hand to him. “Suddenly something seemed to pick him up and seem to throw him at her feet. He cried and hugged her knees. At first she was terribly afraid. But immediately, in that very moment, she understood everything. Infinite happiness shone in her eyes; she realized that he loved, loved her endlessly, and that this moment had finally come... They wanted to talk, but could not. There were tears in their eyes. 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 be patient. They still had seven years left; and until then there is so much unbearable torment and so much endless happiness! But he was resurrected, and he knew it, he felt it with his entire being completely renewed, and she - after all, she lived only his life!”

Dostoevsky’s work “Crime and Punishment” is not only included in the compulsory part of the school curriculum, but also occupies the highest positions in the list of books recommended for reading. Below you can read a summary of this work, remember or find out the main points of the plot.

Part 1

Chapter 1

The main character of the novel, which takes place in the sixties of the 19th century in St. Petersburg, is a poor student Rodion Raskolnikov: a tall, handsome young man with dark brown hair and dark eyes. The young man is in a difficult financial situation: he must pay the landlady of the apartment in which he lives a fairly large sum, but for two days he does not even have enough money to eat properly. The student goes to the old pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna. A plan to kill the old woman has long been ripening in his head, and now he is seriously considering it. He pawns the silver watch, and during a conversation with Alena Ivanovna, he carefully examines her apartment. Raskolnikov tells the old woman that he will come again soon and bring a silver cigarette box to pawn.

Chapter 2

On his way home, the young man stops at a cheap drinking establishment. In it, he meets Marmeladov, a titular adviser who discusses the topic of poverty and shares the history of his family with the student. Marmeladov’s wife, an educated woman Katerina Ivanovna, having three children, married him, and he spends all her money on booze. In order for the family to have some money, she forced Marmeladov’s daughter, Sonya, to go to the panel. The man could barely stand on his feet, and Rodion walked him home. The extremely poor decoration of their home surprised the student. Katerina Ivanovna began to scold her husband for drinking his money, and Raskolnikov left, involuntarily leaving them some change on the windowsill.

Chapter 3

The room in which the young man himself lived was a very small room with a low ceiling. Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother, Pulcheria Alexandrovna. In it, the mother tells Rodion that his sister, Dunya, was offended in the Svidrigailovs’ house, where she worked as a governess. Dunya is a very beautiful, patient and generous girl. She has brown hair and almost black eyes. Svidrigailov, the owner of the house, a man about fifty years old, began to show signs of attention to the girl. His wife Marfa Petrovna noticed her husband's interest in the young governess and began to humiliate her. Also recently, Dunya received a marriage proposal from Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, a court councilor aged forty-five years old, who had sufficient capital. Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya are planning to come to St. Petersburg in the near future to arrange a wedding as soon as possible.

Chapter 4

After reading the letter, the young man was very upset. He realized that his sister and mother agreed to the wedding only because they needed money. Rodion does not want Dunya to marry Luzhin, but he cannot prohibit the marriage. After this incident, the student thinks even more strongly about killing the old pawnbroker.

Chapter 5

Walking around the city, Raskolnikov snacks on a piece of pie and vodka. He quickly became drunk and fell asleep in the bushes. The young man had a terrible dream, which reflected an incident from his childhood. Then the men beat the old horse to death, but he could not stop them. Running up to the horse, the boy kisses it and, out of anger, attacks the man with his fists. When the young man woke up, he thought that perhaps killing the old woman would be beyond his strength. Walking home through the market on Sennaya Square, Raskolnikov sees the pawnbroker’s sister, Lizaveta, who was completely subordinate to the old woman and carried out her instructions all day long. The young man hears Lizaveta’s conversation with the traders. From it he learns that tomorrow at seven in the evening Alena Ivanovna will be home alone. After this he sees a student and an officer; they say that the pawnbroker is not worthy of living, and if she were to die, her money could be used to help poor young people.

Chapter 6

At home, the young man begins preparations for murder. He sews a loop for the ax on the inside of the coat, making it so that the ax is not visible while walking. He takes a tablet the size of a cigarette box, wrapped in paper and tied with a ribbon: it will play the role of a pledge in order to distract the old woman. Raskolnikov steals an ax from the janitor's room and goes to Alena Ivanovna's apartment.

Chapter 7

The young man was very worried and was afraid that the old woman, noticing his strange behavior, would not allow him to enter. But the pawnbroker took the “cigarette box,” and while she was trying to untie the ribbon, Rodion hit her on the head with the butt of an ax. Afterwards he repeats the blow and realizes that Alena Ivanovna is dead. Taking the keys out of the old woman’s pocket, the young man went to her room. He found her money in the chest and began to put it in his pockets, but at that moment Lizaveta returned home. Raskolnikov, in fear of being seen, kills her with an ax. Realizing what he had done, the young man felt horror, but gradually he begins to come to his senses and washes the blood from his hands, boots and the murder weapon. Getting ready to leave, Rodion hears footsteps coming from the stairs: clients have come to the pawnbroker. After waiting until they leave the house, the student quickly goes home. He puts the ax in the janitor's room, goes into his room and falls on the bed in oblivion.

Part 2

Chapter 1

The next day the young man wakes up only at three o'clock in the afternoon. Remembering the murder, he panics and checks his clothes to make sure there is no blood left on them. Having found the old woman's money and jewelry, he puts them in a hole under the wallpaper in the corner of the room. The apartment owner’s cook, Nastasya, comes to the young man and brings a summons that Raskolnikov must come to the police office. The young man is very worried, but the police called him just to write a receipt with an obligation to pay the debt for living in the apartment. Leaving the station, Rodion hears that the employees are discussing the murder of an old pawnbroker. He faints; the police thought the student was sick and sent him home. At home, Raskolnikov is afraid that he might be searched and decides to hide what he took from Alena Ivanovna’s apartment under a stone in the empty yard. After this, the young man returns home. From his experiences he falls ill and spends several days delirious.

Chapters 2-4

When the main character regained consciousness, he saw that Razumikhin, his friend from the university, a tall, smart young man, had come to him. He says that policeman Zametov visited Raskolnikov several times. Also during these days, he received money to pay for the apartment, sent by his mother. Soon another good friend comes to the young man - Zosimov, a medical student. From his story about the murder of an old pawnbroker, Rodion learns that the investigation has no reliable evidence, but there are several suspects, including the dyer Mikola.

Chapter 5

After some time, Luzhin visits Raskolnikov's room. The student tells Pyotr Petrovich that he wants to take Dunya as his wife only so that she will thank him all her life for getting rid of poverty. The man does not agree with Raskolnikov, after which the young man drives him away. Soon Rodion's friends also leave his house. Razumikhin believes that there is something burdensome on his friend’s mind and worries about him.

Chapter 6

Soon Raskolnikov enters the tavern and sees Zametov there. The friends talk about murder, and Rodion tells how he would act if he were a murderer. The young man asks Zametov what he would do if he really committed the crime, almost directly admitting to what he had done. However, Zametov does not believe in his comrade’s guilt. While walking around St. Petersburg, the young man wanted to drown himself, but changed his mind and unknowingly went to the pawnbroker’s house. There he discusses the crime with the workers who are doing the repairs, and they decide that the young man is crazy.

Chapter 7

Next, Rodion heads to Razumikhin and on the way meets a crowd of people who have gathered around the drunken Marmeladov, who was hit by a carriage. He is carried home, and there the man dies in the arms of his daughter Sonya. The student gives all the money he has to the adviser's family to organize his father's funeral. Then Raskolnikov goes to Razumikhin, who accompanies him home. Approaching the house where the main character lived, the friends notice the light in the windows of his room.

Part 3

Chapters 1-2

It turns out that Raskolnikov’s mother and sister came to see him. Seeing them, the young man fainted. Having come to his senses, the young man talks with Dunya about Luzhin and insists on refusing the wedding. The young man immediately liked the beautiful Dunya. The next morning he goes to the hotel to visit her and his mother. Pulcheria Alexandrovna tells him about the letter he received from Luzhin in the morning. He says that he wants to see her and Dunya, but asks to organize a meeting without Rodion’s presence.

Chapters 3-4

In the morning, the women come to Raskolnikov and tell him about Luzhin’s letter; Dunya believes that her brother must be with her during the meeting with the groom. At this time, Sonya Marmeladova comes to the student’s apartment and invites him to her father’s funeral. Raskolnikov introduces her to her family, despite the fact that because of her reputation the girl cannot communicate with them on equal terms. Sonya goes home and on the way notices the pursuit of some stranger, who turns out to be her neighbor (by coincidence, he turned out to be Svidrigailov).

Chapter 5

Razumikhin and Raskolnikov go to the investigator working on the murder of an old pawnbroker. Rodion wants to find out how he can get the things left as pawn from the old woman, and learns that he needs to submit an application. Suddenly, Porfiry Petrovich remembers an article that Raskolnikov wrote not so long ago. It says that people are divided into ordinary people, who do not have the right to break the law, and extraordinary people, who are allowed to commit crimes. The investigator asks whether Rodion considers himself to be extraordinary, whether he is capable of committing a crime, and receives an affirmative answer. Afterwards, Porfiry Petrovich asks if the young man saw the dyers in the old woman’s house. The young man, after hesitating, answers that he did not see. Razumikhin intervenes, saying that the dyers were working on the day of the murder, and the young man was there a couple of days before. After this, the students leave.

Chapter 6

Near the house, Raskolnikov met a stranger who called him a murderer and left without explaining anything. In Rodion’s room, the fever begins again. He dreams of a mysterious stranger calling him to the old woman's apartment; the young man hits her on the head with an ax, but she laughs. The young man wants to run away, but he is surrounded by a crowd of people. Raskolnikov wakes up and Svidrigailov comes to him.

Part 4

Chapters 1-3

He asks the student to arrange a date with Dunya under the pretext that he would like to give the girl ten thousand for all the troubles caused to her in his house. Rodion refuses. In the evening, Raskolnikov and Razumikhin go to see Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya. Luzhin, unhappy that the bride did not take into account his request, refuses to discuss the wedding under Rodion. Dunya drives him away.

Chapter 4

Soon the young man comes to Sonya. She says that she cannot leave her father's wife and children, who will die of hunger without her help. Raskolnikov bows at her feet, saying that the bow is addressed not only to her, but to all human suffering. The student sees that the New Testament is on the table and asks to read to him about the resurrection of Lazarus. Before leaving, Rodion promises that tomorrow he will come again and tell who killed the old money-lender. At this time, Svidrigailov is in the next room and overhears the entire conversation.

Chapters 5-6

The next day the young man goes to Porfiry Petrovich to pick up his things. The investigator tries to check him, and Raskolnikov, irritated, asks Porfiry to say whether he considers him guilty. However, the man avoids answering, and then the dyer Mikola is brought in, who confesses to the murder of Alena Ivanovna. Rodion goes home and again sees the stranger who called him a murderer. He says that Porfiry asked him about this, and now he repents. Raskolnikov’s soul becomes calmer.

Part 5

Chapters 1-3

According to Luzhin, her brother is to blame for his quarrel with Dunya. Wanting to take revenge on him, he asks Lebezyatnikov, his roommate, to call Sonya to him. Luzhin tells the girl that he will not be able to come to her father's funeral and gives her ten rubles. It seems to Lebezyatnikov that Luzhin is up to something. Many people did not come to Marmeladov’s wake. Katerina Ivanovna quarrels with the owner of the apartment. At this time, Luzhin arrives and declares that Sonya stole a hundred rubles from him, calling Lebezyatnikov as a witness. Sonya denies this accusation and gives Pyotr Petrovich ten rubles. Katerina turns out the pockets of Sonya’s clothes, and a hundred-ruble bill falls out of them. Lebezyatnikov tells everyone that Luzhin himself slipped Sonya this money. Pyotr Petrovich gets angry, and the landlady kicks Katerina and the children out of the apartment.

Chapters 4-5

After this, Rodion goes to Sonya and tells her that he knows the killer and he accidentally killed Lizaveta. The girl understood everything and said that there was no one more unhappy than Raskolnikov. Sonya is ready to go with him even to hard labor. She believes that she needs to confess to the murder, and then God will be able to forgive the young man. Lebezyatnikov comes to Sonya and reports that Katerina has gone crazy; the woman is brought to Sonya's apartment and she dies. Svidrigailov, who is nearby, tells Raskolnikov that he will give money for Katerina’s funeral, arrange the children’s future and help Sonya. He asks the young man to tell Duna that this is how he will spend the ten thousand that he did not give her.

Part 6

Chapters 1-6

Soon Porfiry Petrovich comes to the young man and says that he suspects him of murder. However, there is no evidence, and the investigator advises Raskolnikov to come to the station himself and confess everything. The student wants to talk to Svidrigailov, and he says that he was in love with Dunya, but now he has a fiancee. After this, Svidrigailov secretly meets with Dunya, telling her everything he heard from the conversations between Sonya and Raskolnikov. A man tells a girl that he will save her brother in exchange for her love. Dunya wants to leave, but the door is locked; She shoots Svidrigailov several times with a revolver, but misses. He gives her the key, and the girl leaves the revolver and leaves. Returning to the apartment, the man comes to Sonya and gives her three thousand rubles, because he knows that the money will be needed when she goes to hard labor for Raskolnikov. Svidrigailov goes to the hotel, and at dawn he commits suicide by shooting himself in the head with Dunya’s revolver.

Chapters 7-8

Raskolnikov finally decided to confess to the murder and says goodbye to his sister and mother. He goes to Sonya, who gives him a cross and tells him that he needs to kiss the ground at the crossroads. Rodion fulfills the girl’s request, after which he goes to the investigator and says that he is the old woman’s killer. He is informed about Svidrigailov's suicide.

Epilogue

Raskolnikov is sentenced to eight years of hard labor. His mother fell ill, and Dunya and Razumikhin take her out of the city. Pulcheria Ivanovna thinks that her son has left. Sonya goes to Siberia following Rodion. Razumikhin marries Duna; the young people also plan to go to Siberia in a few years. In hard labor, Raskolnikov is considered an atheist, but Sonya, who comes to him, is loved. Soon the young man falls ill and ends up in the hospital. Sonya often visits him. The young man thinks about his fate and understands that pride can only lead to death. The next time Sonya came to him, he began hugging her legs. The girl was scared at first, but then realized that he loved her very much.

Crime and Punishment, the title itself is very laconic and briefly conveys the meaning of the novel. From the name alone you can understand that first comes the crime and then comes the punishment. There are many Raskolnikovs, and they think about the crime for a long time, and do not think about punishment at all. He thinks through the crime down to the details, everything is perfect in his plan, he is capable of committing this crime and not a single suspicion will fall on him.

Rodion chooses the time well, everything goes according to his plan, and it develops in an ideal way, he is sure that there is not one weak point in his plan, but he is mistaken, there is one unplanned part in his plan, the return of the old woman’s sister Lizaveta. Completely unplanned, he kills her too. From the moment Lizaveta hit, Raskolnikov’s punishment begins, he does not regret that he killed the Old Woman, on the contrary, he believes that by killing her he freed the world from a bad person. He often resorts to his theory in order to justify himself. First, the schismatics receive punishment in the form of mental torment, he torments himself, his thoughts are filled with self-gnawing and self-burnout. While worrying and tormenting himself, his thoughts flow into something more than catfish, but into thoughts about the layers of society. These thoughts had visited him more than once before, but now, having felt all this on his own skin. He is already thinking differently. Who is he? “a trembling creature or one who has rights.” Rather, Raskolnikov, unable to withstand the mental torment and Sonya’s instructions, confesses. And then comes the second part of his “punishment”: he ends up in Ostrog. To hard labor, to Siberia. But this does not seem to be a big problem for him. His soul had already changed beyond recognition by that moment. It’s not good for the body, he doesn’t care. But he harmed not only himself by confessing, but by initially committing this crime. He condemned not only himself, but also all his relatives and friends to “punishment.” Sonya leaves with him for Siberia, where she sacrifices herself, her life, for the sake of Rodion. Mom dies from worries about her son. Having committed a crime, Raskolnikov receives punishment and it is very difficult to say what this punishment is. A soul battered by grief and self-torment, a body exhausted by work, or loved ones suffering from this crime. And it would seem, according to Raskolnikov’s logic, he is doing a good deed: freeing the world from the old pawnbroker, whose existence, in Raskolnikov’s opinion, burdens the lives of other people. According to his logic, having committed this crime, he, as a person who wanted to classify himself as a “Higher People,” should have committed it and turned away, not the least bit hesitating about what he had committed, but he’s worried. Raskolnikov, bringing his thoughts to the end, understands that he is a “trembling creature”, that he belongs to the majority, he does not have that spark that was in the same Napoleon. He's disappointed in himself not because of the crime. And because he didn’t live up to his expectations. And perhaps this is the greatest punishment for him.