The main character is Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a student who dropped out of university. He lives in a cramped closet, like a coffin, in poverty. Avoids the landlady because he owes her. The action takes place in the summer, in a terrible closeness (the theme of "yellow Petersburg" runs through the entire novel). Raskolnikov goes to an old woman who lends money on bail. The old woman’s name is Alena Ivanovna, she lives with her half-sister, a dumb, downtrodden creature Lizaveta, who “walks pregnant every minute”, works for the old woman and is completely enslaved by her. Raskolnikov brings a watch as a pledge, memorizing all the smallest details along the way, as he is preparing to carry out his plan - to kill the old woman.

On the way back, he goes into a tavern, where he meets Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, a drunken official who talks about himself. His wife, Katerina Ivanovna, has three children from her first marriage. The first husband was an officer with whom she ran away from her parents' house, played cards, beat her. Then he died, and out of desperation and poverty, she had to go after Marmeladov, who was an official, but then lost his place. Marmeladov has a daughter, Sonya, from her first marriage, who was forced to go to the panel in order to somehow feed herself and feed the rest of the children. Marmeladov drinks with her money, steals money from home. Suffering from it. Raskolnikov takes him home. There is a scandal at home, Raskolnikov leaves, inconspicuously putting money on the window, which the Marmeladov family needs so much. The next morning, Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother, who apologizes for not being able to send money. The mother tells that Raskolnikov's sister Dunya entered the service of the Svidrigailovs. Svidrigailov mistreated her, then began to persuade her to a love affair, promising all sorts of benefits. Svidrigailov's wife, Marfa Petrovna, overheard the conversation, blamed Dunya for everything, and kicked her out of the house. The acquaintances turned away from the Raskolnikovs, as Marfa Petrovna rang about this throughout the county. Then everything became clear (Svidrigailov repented, Dunya's indignant letter was found, the servants confessed). Marfa Petrovna told her friends about everything, the attitude changed, Petr Petrovich Luzhin, who was going to St. Petersburg to open a law office, got engaged to Duna. Raskolnikov realizes that his sister is selling herself in order to be able to help her brother, and decides to interfere with the marriage. Raskolnikov goes out into the street and meets on the boulevard with a drunken girl, almost a girl, who, apparently, was drunk, dishonored and put out on the street. A dude walks nearby, trying on a girl. Raskolnikov gives money to the policeman to take the girl home in a cab. He thinks about her future unenviable fate. He understands that a certain “percentage” goes precisely along such a life path, but does not want to put up with it. He goes to his friend Razumikhin, changes his mind on the way. Before reaching the house, he falls asleep in the bushes. He has a terrible dream that he, a little one, goes with his father to the cemetery where his younger brother is buried, past the tavern. There is a draft horse harnessed to a cart. The drunken owner of the horse, Mikola, comes out of the tavern and invites his friends to sit down. The horse is old and cannot move the cart. Mikolka furiously lashes her with a whip. A few more people join him. Mikolka kills the nag with a crowbar. The boy (Raskolnikov) rushes with his fists at Mikolka, his father takes him away. Raskolnikov wakes up and thinks about whether he can kill or not. Walking down the street, he accidentally hears a conversation between Lizaveta (the old woman's sister) and acquaintances who invite her to visit, that is, the old woman will be left alone tomorrow. Raskolnikov enters a tavern, where he hears a conversation between an officer and a student playing billiards about an old pawnbroker and Lizaveta. They say that the old woman is vile, sucks blood from people. Student: I would kill her, rob her without a twinge of conscience, how many people disappear, and the vile old woman herself will die not today or tomorrow. Raskolnikov comes home, goes to bed. Then he prepares for the murder: he sews a loop for an ax under his coat, wraps a piece of wood with a piece of iron in paper, like a new "mortgage" - to distract the old woman. Then steals in the janitor's axe. He goes to the old woman, gives her a “mortgage”, quietly takes out an ax and kills the pawnbroker. After that, he begins to rummage through cabinets, chests, and so on. Suddenly, Lizaveta returns. Raskolnikov is forced to kill her too. Then someone rings the doorbell. Raskolnikov does not open. Those who come notice that the door is bolted from the inside, and feel something is wrong. Two go downstairs after the janitor, one remains on the stairs, but then can't stand it and also goes down. Raskolnikov runs out of the apartment. One floor below - renovation. Visitors with a janitor are already climbing the stairs, Raskolnikov is hiding in an apartment where repairs are underway. The group goes up, Raskolnikov runs away.

Part 2

Raskolnikov wakes up, examines the clothes, destroys the evidence, wants to hide the things taken from the old woman. The janitor comes, brings a summons to the police. Raskolnikov goes to the station. It turns out that they are demanding the recovery of money by the landlady in the case. In the precinct, Raskolnikov sees Louise Ivanovna, the owner of a brothel. Raskolnikov explains to the head clerk that at one time he promised to marry the daughter of his landlady, spent a lot, slapped bills. Then the hostess's daughter died of typhus, and the hostess began to demand payment of bills. Out of the corner of his ear, Raskolnikov hears a conversation in the police station about the murder of an old woman - the interlocutors discuss the circumstances of the case.

Raskolnikov faints, then explains that he is unwell. Arriving from the station, Raskolnikov takes the old woman's things at home and hides them under a stone in a remote alley. After that, he goes to his friend Razumikhin and tries to explain something chaotically. Razumikhin offers to help, but Raskolnikov leaves. On the embankment, Raskolnikov almost falls under the carriage. Some merchant's wife with her daughter, mistaking him for a beggar, gives Raskolnikov 20 kopecks. Raskolnikov takes, but then throws the money into the Neva. It seemed to him that he was now completely cut off from the whole world. Comes home, goes to bed. The delirium begins: Raskolnikov imagines that the hostess is being beaten. When Raskolnikov woke up, he saw Razumikhin and the cook Nastasya in his room, who looked after him during his illness. An artel worker comes, brings money from his mother (35 rubles). Razumikhin took the bill from the landlady and vouched for Raskolnikov that he would pay. Buys clothes for Raskolnikov. Zosimov, a medical student, comes to Raskolnikov's closet to examine the patient. He speaks with Razumikhin about the murder of an old pawnbroker. It turns out that the dyer Mikolay was arrested on suspicion of the murder, and Koch and Pestryakov (those who came to the old woman during the murder) were released. Mikolaj brought to the owner a drinking case with gold earrings, which he allegedly found on the street. He and Mitriy were painting just on the stairs where the old woman lived. The owner of the tavern began to find out and found out that Mikolaj had been drinking for several days, and when he hinted to him about the murder, Mikolaj rushed to run. Then he was arrested when he wanted to hang himself drunk in a shed (before that he had laid a cross). He denies his guilt, he only admitted that he did not find the earrings on the street, but behind the door on the floor where they were painting. Zosimov and Razumikhin argue about the circumstances. Razumikhin restores the whole picture of the murder - both how the killer was caught in the apartment, and how he hid from the janitor, Koch and Pestryakov on the floor below. At this time, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin comes to Raskolnikov. He is neatly dressed, but does not make the best impression on Raskolnikov. Luzhin reports that Raskolnikov's sister and mother are coming. They will stay in rooms (a cheap and dirty hotel), for which Luzhin pays. An acquaintance of Luzhin's, Andrey Semenych Lebezyatnikov, also lives there. Luzhin philosophizes about what progress is. In his opinion, progress is driven by selfishness, that is, self-interest. If you share your last shirt with your neighbor, then neither he nor you will have a shirt, and both will walk half-naked. The richer and better organized an individual is, and the more such individuals there are, the richer and more comfortable society is. The conversation turns again to the murder of the old woman. Zosimov says that the investigator is interrogating the pawnbrokers, that is, those who brought things to the old woman. Luzhin philosophizes about why crime has increased not only among the "lower classes", but also among the relatively wealthy. Raskolnikov says that “according to your own theory, it turned out” - if every man is for himself, then people can be cut. “Is it true that you said that it’s better to take a wife out of poverty, so that later it’s better to rule over her?” Luzhin is indignant and says that Raskolnikov's mother is spreading these gossip. Raskolnikov quarrels with Luzhin and threatens to throw him down the stairs. After everyone has dispersed, Raskolnikov dresses and goes to roam the streets. He finds himself in an alley where brothels are located, etc. He thinks about those sentenced to death, who, before being executed, are ready to agree to live in a space of a meter, on a rock, just to live. "Scoundrel man. And the scoundrel is the one who calls him a scoundrel for this. Raskolnikov goes to a tavern where he reads newspapers. Zametov approaches him (the one who was at the station when Raskolnikov fainted, and then came to Raskolnikov during his illness, an acquaintance of Razumikhin). Talk about counterfeiters. Raskolnikov feels that Zametov suspects him. He tells how he himself would have acted in the place of the counterfeiters, then - about what he would have done with the things of the old woman if he had killed her. Then he asks bluntly: “What if it was I who killed the old woman and Lizaveta? You suspect me!” Leaves. Zosimov is sure that the suspicions about Raskolnikov are wrong.

Raskolnikov meets Razumikhin. He invites Raskolnikov to a housewarming party. He refuses and asks everyone to leave him alone. Walks across the bridge. A woman is trying to commit suicide in front of him by jumping off a bridge. She is pulled out. Raskolnikov has the thought of suicide. He goes to the crime scene, tries to question the workers and the janitor. They kick him out. Raskolnikov walks down the street, wondering whether to go to the police or not. Suddenly he hears screams, noise. Goes to them. The man was crushed by the crew. Raskolnikov recognizes Marmeladov. They carry him home. At home, a wife with three children: two daughters - Polenka and Lidochka - and a son. Marmeladov dies, they send for the priest and Sonya. Katerina Ivanovna is hysterical, she blames the dying man, people, God. Marmeladov tries to apologize to Sonya before dying. Dies. Before leaving, Raskolnikov gives all the money he has left to Katerina Ivanovna, tells Polenka, who catches up with him with words of gratitude, so that she prays for him. Raskolnikov realizes that his life is not yet over. "Didn't I live now? My life with the old woman has not yet died!” Goes to Razumikhin. He, despite the housewarming, escorts Raskolnikov home. Darling says that Zametov and Ilya Petrovich suspected Raskolnikov, and now Zametov repents, and that Porfiry Petrovich (the investigator) wants to meet Raskolnikov. Zosimov has some theory of his own that Raskolnikov is crazy. Raskolnikov and Razumikhin come to Raskolnikov's closet and find his mother and sister there. Raskolnikov takes a few steps back and faints.

Poor district of St. Petersburg in the 60s. XIX century, adjacent to Sennaya Square and the Catherine Canal. Summer evening. Former student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leaves his closet in the attic and pledges the last valuable thing to the old pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna, whom he is preparing to kill. On the way back, he goes into one of the cheap taverns, where he accidentally meets the drunken official Marmeladov who has lost his job. He tells how consumption, poverty and drunkenness of her husband pushed his wife, Katerina Ivanovna, to a cruel act - to send his daughter from his first marriage Sonya to earn money on the panel.

The next morning, Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother from the provinces describing the troubles suffered by his younger sister Dunya in the house of the depraved landowner Svidrigailov. He learns about the imminent arrival of his mother and sister in St. Petersburg in connection with the upcoming marriage of Dunya. The groom is a prudent businessman Luzhin, who wants to build a marriage not on love, but on poverty and the dependence of the bride. The mother hopes that Luzhin will financially help her son finish his course at the university. Reflecting on the sacrifices that Sonya and Dunya make for the sake of their loved ones, Raskolnikov strengthens his intention to kill the pawnbroker - a useless evil "louse". After all, thanks to her money, "hundreds, thousands" of girls and boys will be spared from undeserved suffering. However, disgust for the bloody violence rises again in the hero's soul after he saw a dream-memories of childhood: the boy's heart is torn from pity for the nag being beaten to death.

And yet, Raskolnikov kills with an ax not only the "ugly old woman", but also her kind, meek sister Lizaveta, who unexpectedly returned to the apartment. Having miraculously left unnoticed, he hides the stolen goods in a random place, without even estimating its value.

Soon Raskolnikov is horrified to discover alienation between himself and other people. Sick from the experience, he, however, is not able to reject the burdensome worries of his comrade at the university, Razumikhin. From the conversation of the latter with the doctor, Raskolnikov learns that the painter Mikolka, a simple village boy, was arrested on suspicion of the murder of an old woman. Painfully reacting to talk about a crime, he himself also arouses suspicion among others.
Luzhin, who came on a visit, is shocked by the squalor of the hero's closet; their conversation turns into a quarrel and ends in a breakup. Raskolnikov is especially offended by the proximity of practical conclusions from Luzhin's "reasonable egoism" (which seems vulgar to him) and his own "theory": "people can be cut ..."
Wandering around St. Petersburg, the sick young man suffers from his alienation from the world and is already ready to confess his crime to the authorities, as he sees a man crushed by a carriage. This is Marmeladov. Out of compassion, Raskolnikov spends the last money on the dying man: he is transferred to the house, the doctor is called. Rodion meets Katerina Ivanovna and Sonya, who is saying goodbye to her father in an inappropriately bright prostitute outfit. Thanks to a good deed, the hero briefly felt community with people. However, having met his mother and sister who arrived at his apartment, he suddenly realizes that he is "dead" for their love and rudely drives them away. He is alone again, but he has a hope of getting closer to Sonya, who, like him, "stepped over", the absolute commandment.

Raskolnikov's relatives are taken care of by Razumikhin, who almost at first sight fell in love with the beautiful Dunya. Meanwhile, the offended Luzhin puts the bride before a choice: either he or his brother.
In order to find out about the fate of the things pledged by the murdered woman, and in fact, to dispel the suspicions of some acquaintances, Rodion himself asks for a meeting with Porfiry Petrovich, the investigator in the case of the murder of the old pawnbroker. The latter recalls Raskolnikov's recently published article "On Crime", inviting the author to explain his "theory" about "two categories of people." It turns out that the "ordinary" ("lower") majority is just material for the reproduction of their own kind, it is they who need a strict moral law and must be obedient. These are "creatures trembling". “In fact, people” (“higher”) have a different nature, possessing the gift of a “new word”, they destroy the present in the name of the better, even if it is necessary to “step over” the moral norms previously established for the “lower” majority, for example, shed someone else's blood. These "criminals" then become the "new legislators". Thus, not recognizing the biblical commandments ("thou shalt not kill", "thou shalt not steal", etc.), Raskolnikov "permits" those who have the right - "blood according to conscience." Clever and insightful Porfiry unravels in the hero an ideological killer who claims to be the new Napoleon. However, the investigator has no evidence against Rodion - and he releases the young man in the hope that a good nature will defeat the delusions of the mind in him and will herself lead him to a confession of what he has done.
Indeed, the hero becomes more and more convinced that he made a mistake in himself: “the real ruler [...] smashes Toulon, makes a massacre in Paris, forgets the army in Egypt, spends half a million people on the Moscow campaign”, and he, Raskolnikov, is tormented by the “vulgarity” and “meanness” of a single murder. Clearly, he is a “trembling creature”: even having killed, he “did not cross” the moral law. The very motives of the crime are twofold in the mind of the hero: this is both a test of oneself for the “highest category”, and an act of “justice”, according to revolutionary socialist teachings, transferring the property of the “predators” to their victims.

Svidrigailov, who arrived after Dunya in St. Petersburg, apparently guilty of the recent death of his wife, meets Raskolnikov and notices that they are "of the same field," although the latter did not completely defeat "Schiller" in himself. With all the disgust towards the offender, Rodion's sister is attracted by his seeming ability to enjoy life, despite the crimes committed.
During dinner in cheap rooms, where Luzhin settled Dunya and his mother out of economy, a decisive explanation takes place. Luzhin is convicted of slandering Raskolnikov and Sonya, to whom he allegedly gave money for base services selflessly collected by a poor mother for his studies. Relatives are convinced of the purity and nobility of the young man and sympathize with Sonya's fate. Exiled in disgrace, Luzhin is looking for a way to discredit Raskolnikov in the eyes of his sister and mother.
The latter, meanwhile, having again felt the painful alienation from loved ones, comes to Sonya. She, having “crossed over” the commandment “do not commit adultery,” he seeks salvation from unbearable loneliness. But Sonya is not alone. She sacrificed herself for the sake of others (hungry brothers and sisters), and not others for herself, as her interlocutor. Love and compassion for loved ones, faith in the mercy of God never left her. She reads to Rodion the gospel lines about the resurrection of Lazarus by Christ, hoping for a miracle in her life. The hero fails to captivate the girl with the "Napoleonic" plan of power over "the whole anthill."

Tortured at the same time by fear and a desire to be exposed, Raskolnikov again comes to Porfiry, as if worrying about his mortgage. A seemingly abstract conversation about the psychology of criminals eventually brings the young man to a nervous breakdown, and he almost betrays himself to the investigator. He is saved by an unexpected confession to everyone in the murder of the pawnbroker painter Mikolka.

In the passage room of the Marmeladovs, a wake was arranged for her husband and father, during which Katerina Ivanovna, in a fit of morbid pride, insults the landlady of the apartment. She tells her and her children to leave immediately. Suddenly, Luzhin, who lives in the same house, enters and accuses Sonya of stealing a hundred-ruble banknote. The "guilt" of the girl is proven: the money is found in the pocket of her apron. Now, in the eyes of those around her, she is also a thief. But unexpectedly there is a witness that Luzhin himself imperceptibly slipped Sonya a piece of paper. The slanderer is put to shame, and Raskolnikov explains to those present the reasons for his act: having humiliated his brother and Sonya in the eyes of Dunya, he hoped to return the favor of the bride.

Rodion and Sonya go to her apartment, where the hero confesses to the girl in the murder of the old woman and Lizaveta. She pities him for the moral torments to which he condemned himself, and offers to atone for his guilt by voluntary confession and hard labor. Raskolnikov laments only that he turned out to be a "trembling creature", with a conscience and a need for human love. "I'll still fight," he disagrees with Sonya.

Meanwhile, Katerina Ivanovna with the children finds herself on the street. She begins to bleed from the throat and dies after refusing the services of a priest. Svidrigailov, who is present here, undertakes to pay for the funeral and provide for the children and Sonya.

At home, Raskolnikov finds Porfiry, who convinces the young man to turn himself in: the "theory", which denies the absoluteness of the moral law, rejects from the only source of life - God, the creator of mankind, one in nature - and thereby dooms his captive to death. "Now you need [...] air, air, air!" Porfiry does not believe in the guilt of Mikolka, who "accepted suffering" for the primordial needs of the people: to atone for the sin of inconsistency with the ideal - Christ.

But Raskolnikov still hopes to "transcend" morality as well. Before him is the example of Svidrigailov. Their meeting in a tavern reveals to the hero a sad truth: the life of this "insignificant villain" is empty and painful for him.

The reciprocity of Dunya is the only hope for Svidrigailov to return to the source of being. Convinced of her irrevocable dislike of himself during a heated conversation in his apartment, he shoots himself a few hours later.

Meanwhile, Raskolnikov, driven by the lack of "air", says goodbye to his family and Sonya before confessing. He is still convinced of the correctness of the "theory" and full of contempt for himself. However, at the insistence of Sonya, before the eyes of the people, he repentantly kisses the ground, before which he "sinned." In the police office, he learns about Svidrigailov's suicide and makes an official confession.

Raskolnikov ends up in Siberia, in a prison camp. Mother died of grief, Dunya married Razumikhin. Sonya settled near Raskolnikov and visits the hero, patiently enduring his gloom and indifference. The nightmare of alienation continues here too: the convicts from the common people hate him as a "godless man". On the contrary, Sonya is treated with tenderness and love. Once in the prison hospital, Rodion sees a dream reminiscent of pictures from the Apocalypse: the mysterious "trichins", instilling in people, give rise in everyone to a fanatical conviction that they are right and intolerant of the "truths" of others. "People killed each other in [...] senseless malice" until the entire human race was exterminated, except for a few "pure and chosen ones." Finally, it is revealed to him that pride of mind leads to discord and destruction, while humility of the heart leads to unity in love and to the fullness of life. It awakens "endless love" for Sonya. On the threshold of "resurrection into a new life," Raskolnikov takes the Gospel in his hands.

The action takes place in the summer in St. Petersburg. Former student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov lives in a cramped room that looks like a closet or a coffin, in complete poverty. He owes all around to the mistress, from whom he rents a closet, therefore he tries in every possible way to avoid meeting with her. One day, already in the evening, Raskolnikov goes to Alena Ivanovna, an old pawnbroker who lives in the same apartment with her half-sister Lizaveta. Rodion lays down her watch, while remembering all the necessary details - where the old woman keeps the keys, is she always alone at home, since he planned to kill her. On the way home, he goes into a tavern and meets Marmeladov, a former official, who tells him the story of his life. Previously, he served in the rank of titular adviser, but then he lost his job due to redundancy and drank himself. He has a wife, Katerina Ivanovna, who has three children from her first marriage, and her own daughter Sonya, who is forced to sell herself in order to somehow feed her family.

The next day, Raskolnikov receives a letter from his mother, where she talks about the fate of his sister Dunya, who used to serve with the Svidrigailovs, but because of the harassment of the owner, Arkady Ivanovich, she was forced to leave, as Svidrigailov's wife overheard their conversation. Then the owner admitted that Dunya was not to blame, they found her letter with reproaches against Arkady Ivanovich. In the city where they lived, Dunya was again respected. Now Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin is wooing her. Soon he should come to St. Petersburg in order to open a law office there. Rodion guesses that the sister agrees to this marriage in order to help her mother and him, and decides to prevent her from carrying out her plan. He goes to his former university friend Razumikhin, but after drinking a glass of vodka, he falls asleep in the bushes. He dreams that he is a little boy who walks with his father past a tavern, next to which stands an old horse harnessed to a cart. The drunken owner Mikola comes up to her, inviting friends to sit down to go for a ride. The horse cannot move in any way, and Mikola beats her with a whip, and then kills her with a crowbar. Little Rodion, crying, throws himself at Mikopa with his fists, but his father takes him away. Waking up, the young man contemplates whether he could have killed or not. On the street, he accidentally meets Lizaveta, whom friends invite to visit. Thus, he learns that the old woman will remain at home alone. Raskolnikov also recalls a conversation that an officer and a student once heard in a tavern about a pawnbroker and her sister. The student said that if you kill an old woman and do a thousand good deeds with the money left after her, this will atone for one crime. The student's thoughts coincide with the thoughts of Raskolnikov, who had just pawned the ring given by his sister to the old woman.

At home, preparing for the murder, he sews an ax loop to his coat, makes a fraudulent "mortgage", takes an ax in the janitor, goes to the old woman and kills her. But suddenly Lizaveta returns. Raskolnikov kills her too.

Waking up the next day, Raskolnikov tries to destroy the evidence. The janitor brings him a summons to the police, where his landlady complained that he did not pay money. In the station, he hears a conversation about the murder of an old woman and faints. Now it seems to him that he cut himself off from the whole world with scissors. He falls ill, lies delirious for a long time.

During this time, the dyer Mikolay was arrested on suspicion of murdering an old pawnbroker, who brought the owner a drinking case with gold earrings, explaining that he allegedly found it on the street.

Raskolnikov is visited by Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, who informs him that his mother and sister will soon arrive in St. Petersburg and stay at a hotel. During the conversation, he quarrels with Luzhin and threatens to push him down the stairs.

Going out into the street, Raskolnikov sees a woman jumping from a bridge, and the thought of suicide also flashes through his mind.

Then he sees how a man was crushed by a carriage. It was Marmeladov. Rodion helps to carry him home, where he dies. Before leaving, Raskolnikov gives all the remaining money to the wife of the deceased, Katerina Ivanovna, for the funeral.

Razumikhin tells his friend that investigator Porfiry Petrovich wants to meet him. Arriving home, they see Raskolnikov's mother and sister there, who again loses consciousness. Waking up, he asks his sister not to marry Luzhin, because he does not want to accept such a sacrifice from her. Razumikhin falls in love with Dunya and also dissuades her from this marriage.

Sonya Marmeladova comes to Raskolnikov and invites him on behalf of Katerina Ivanovna to the commemoration. Rodion informs Razumikhin that he pawned his father's watch and his sister's ring from the old pawnbroker, and now wants to take them back. A friend advises him to go to Porfiry Petrovich, to whom they both go. There is a discussion about the essence of crimes. The investigator recalls Raskolnikov's article "On Crime", published in a magazine two months ago, in which he divides all people into two categories: ordinary and extraordinary. Discuss this theory. Porfiry Petrovich invites him to the office tomorrow.

Raskolnikov, returning home and, talking about his condition, comes to the conclusion that he himself belongs to the category of "trembling creatures", as he suffers and thinks about whether he did the right thing. At night, Raskolnikov has a terrible dream, as if the old woman is alive and laughing at him. He wants to kill her, but people are looking at him from all sides. Waking up, he sees Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov in his room, who tells him about the death of his wife, claiming that he is absolutely not guilty of this, and everything also happened with Dunya by accident. Reports that in his youth he was a cheater. He was imprisoned for his debts, and Marfa Petrovna bought him out of there, after which they lived in the village for seven years, without leaving anywhere. In addition, Svidrigailov tells Raskolnikov that they have much in common, offers him to help upset the wedding of Dunya and Luzhin, offering ten thousand rubles as compensation.

In a hotel with his mother and sister, he meets with Luzhin, quarrels with him, and then Pyotr Petrovich is expelled for slandering Raskolnikov. Then he goes to Sonya, who loves and pities her family. Katerina Ivanovna is sick with consumption, so she will die soon. It turns out that Sonya often prays to God, and on her chest of drawers is the Gospel that the murdered Lizaveta gave her. Together they read the episode about the resurrection of Lazarus.

The next day, Raskolnikov comes to Porfiry Petrovich, who is an expert on the human soul and a subtle psychologist, therefore he knows how to unravel the most complex cases. Talking with him, Rodion realizes that Porfiry Ivanovich suspects him. But suddenly the arrested Mikolaj appears with a confession that it was he who killed the pawnbroker with his sister.

After the commemoration at the Marmeladov Raskolnikov, he goes to Sonya and confesses to her the murder of the old woman and Lizaveta. She cries and advises Rodion to go to the square, bow four times to the church, then to people, ask their forgiveness and repent before them, and then go to the investigator and confess everything, then God will send him life again. Svidrigailov, who lives across the wall from Sonya's room, overhears their conversation. Katerina Ivanovna dies. Svidrigailov takes over the funeral, and promises to place the children in orphanages, assigning maintenance to each until adulthood.

Porfiry Petrovich comes to Raskolnikov's home, explains to him how he guessed his guilt, and offers to surrender, because he will be arrested anyway in two days, when there is evidence.

Svidrigailov commits suicide by shooting himself.

Raskolnikov goes to the investigator's office, where he confesses to the murder. After the trial, he was sentenced to eight years hard labor, all things considered. Dunya marries Razumikhin. Sonya goes to Siberia for Raskolnikov, who has not yet repented of his crime, considering himself guilty only of not having endured the pangs of conscience and made a confession. Sonya gets sick. When Raskolnikov sees her again, he realizes that he loves her very much. He feels that he has risen, that “life has come,” and now he always has the Gospel under his pillow.

PART ONE The protagonist of the novel, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, dropped out of university a few months ago. He is very poor, walks in rags, lives in a wretched closet, but there is nothing to pay for it either, he has to hide from the landlady. It takes place in the summer, the terrible stuffiness exacerbates the severe nervous state of the young man. Raskolnikov goes to the usurer to take money on bail. But this is not its only purpose. A plan is ripening in his head, he mentally and mentally prepares for its implementation. He even knows how many steps separate his house from the usurer's house; he notes to himself that his worn-out hat is too conspicuous, it must be replaced; going up the stairs to the pawnbroker’s apartment, he sees that an apartment on her floor is being vacated, therefore, only one occupied one will remain ... The old pawnbroker, Alena Ivanovna, lives in a two-room apartment with her younger sister Lizaveta, a downtrodden and dumb creature. Lizaveta “goes around pregnant all the time”, works day and night for the old woman and is “in complete slavery” with her. Raskolnikov leaves a silver watch as a pledge. On the way back, he goes into a tavern, where he meets Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, a retired official who has drunk himself; he tells Raskolnikov about his family. His wife, Katerina Ivanovna, an officer's widow, has three children from her first marriage. After the death of her husband, a gambler, she was left without any means of subsistence and, out of hopelessness, she married Marmeladov, an official who soon lost his job, took to drink and still drinks. Marmeladov's daughter from her first marriage, Sonya, was forced to go to the panel, because there was nothing to feed the children of Katerina Ivanovna. Marmeladov begs for money from his daughter, steals the last from his wife. At the same time, he likes to engage in self-flagellation in public with beating himself in the chest and drunken sobs. Raskolnikov takes the drunkard home, where a scandal rises. Raskolnikov leaves, quietly leaving a few coins on the windowsill. The next morning, he receives a letter from his mother, who explains to him why she could not send him money before - she herself and Raskolnikov's sister Dunya, trying to provide him with everything necessary, got into big debts. Dunya had to enter the service of the Svidrigailovs and take a hundred rubles in advance to send to brother Rodion. For this reason, when Svidrigailov began to harass Dunya, she could not immediately leave there. Svidrigailov's wife, Marfa Petrovna, mistakenly blamed Dunya for everything and expelled her from the house, disgracing the whole city. But then a conscience woke up in Svidrigailov, and he gives his wife Dunya's letter, in which she angrily rejects his harassment and stands up for his wife. Marfa Petrovna travels around all city houses, restoring the girl's reputation. For Dunya, there is also a fiancé - court adviser Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, who is about to arrive on business in St. Petersburg. Reading a letter from his mother, who is trying in vain to discover at least some positive qualities in the person whom Dunya agreed to marry, Raskolnikov realizes that his sister is selling herself to help him finish his studies and get (she hopes so) in a law office that her future husband is going to open in St. Petersburg. Mother calls Luzhin a straightforward man, citing as an example his words that he wants to marry an honest girl, but certainly poor and survived trouble, because, in his opinion, a husband should not owe anything to his wife, on the contrary, the wife should see her benefactor in her husband. Outraged, Rodion decides not to allow this marriage. He believes that what Dunya is going to do is even worse than the act of Sonya Marmeladova, who simply saves children from starvation. At the end of the letter, the mother says that she will send money to her son in a few days, and soon she and Dunya will come to St. Petersburg themselves. Raskolnikov leaves the house and wanders around the city, talking to himself. He understands that while he finishes his studies and gets a job, years will pass, and what will happen to his mother and sister during this time? And again he is visited by the thought of a pawnbroker. Suddenly he notices a drunken, torn girl, almost a girl, wandering along the boulevard, whom some fat gentleman is about to approach, obviously with dirty intentions. Raskolnikov drives him away and calls the policeman, to whom he gives money for a cab to take the girl home. She was obviously deceived, drunk, dishonored and thrown out into the street. Raskolnikov sympathetically reflects on the future fate of the girl, realizing at the same time that he can’t do anything - some “percentage” turns out to be on this path. Raskolnikov catches himself on the fact that, leaving the house, he was about to go to his university comrade Razumikhin, who had not been to see him for four months. Unexpectedly for himself, he decides to go to him not now, but "after, when it is already over ...". His own decision horrifies Rodion. He goes wherever his eyes look, wanders for a long time, then turns towards the house and, completely exhausted, leaves the road, falls on the grass and falls asleep. He has a terrible dream: he, a boy of about seven, is walking with his father along the road to the cemetery, past a tavern, near which stands a draft horse harnessed to a cart. The drunken owner of the horse, Mikolka, and his friends come out of the tavern. Everyone gets into the cart, but the horse is old, it does not have the strength to move the cart. Mikolka mercilessly whips the horse with a whip, the others join in the beating. They beat the horse to death. Raskolnikov (a little boy) runs up to the horse with a cry, kisses its dead muzzle, then rushes in a frenzy at Mikolka. The father grabs him and takes him away. Raskolnikov, waking up, ponders: will he really take an ax and start hitting him on the head? .. No, he is incapable of this, he "will not endure this." This thought makes him feel lighter. But then an unexpected meeting occurs, returning him to the old plan. He comes across the pawnbroker's sister Lizaveta - she agrees with her friends to come to them tomorrow on some business. This means that the old woman will be left at home alone tomorrow evening. Raskolnikov feels that “he no longer has any freedom of mind or will, and that everything has suddenly been finally decided.” A month and a half ago, Raskolnikov, on his way to an old pawnbroker with a ring for which he wanted to borrow money, went into a tavern on the way and there he heard a conversation between an officer and a student about this very old woman and her half-sister. The student said that Lizaveta was very kind and meek, and the old woman, according to her will, was not going to leave her a penny. “I would have killed and robbed this old woman ... without any backlash of conscience,” he added. So many people disappear without support, how much good can be done with the old woman's money! What does the life of this ... evil old woman mean on the general scales? However, when the officer asked the interlocutor if he could kill the old woman himself, he answered “no”. That tavern conversation had a strong effect on Raskolnikov. Rodion goes home and goes to bed. The next day he wakes up late and cannot collect his thoughts. Meanwhile, the day was already drawing to a close. “And an unusual and some kind of bewildered fuss seized him suddenly, instead of sleep and stupefaction.” He quickly prepares for the murder: he sews a loop for an ax to his coat from the inside, wraps it in paper and ties with a ribbon a false “mortgage” - a tablet and a piece of iron - in order to divert the attention of the old woman, and carefully descends the stairs, steals an ax into the janitor and “gradually, slowly”, so as not to arouse suspicion, goes to the pawnbroker’s house. Climbing the stairs, Raskolnikov notices that the apartment on the third floor, just under the old woman's apartment, is also empty - it is being renovated. He rings the doorbell, the old woman opens it for him. Trying to untie the ribbon on the “mortgage”, she turns her back on Raskolnikov, and he beats her on the head with a butt, then again and again. Carefully taking the keys from the pocket of the dead old woman, he begins to rummage through the chests, stuffing other people's mortgages and money into his pockets. His hands are trembling, the keys won't get into the locks, he wants to drop everything and leave. There is a noise in the next room, Raskolnikov, grabbing an ax, runs there and runs into Lizaveta, who suddenly came, who saw him, and “her lips were twisted, like those of small children ...”. The unfortunate Lizaveta was so overwhelmed that she did not even raise her hand to defend herself. Raskolnikov kills her. Then he washes the blood from his hands and axe. He is numb. He shakes himself, telling himself to run. And then he notices that the front door is unlocked. He locks her up. But you have to leave! He opens the door again and stands, listening. Someone is walking up the stairs. Now he passed the third floor. Only then Raskolnikov rushes back to the apartment and locks the door. The door bell rings non-stop. Someone else approached the visitor at the door. Both visitors are talking in bewilderment - after all, the old woman never leaves the house! We must send for the janitor. One goes down, the second, after waiting a little, also leaves. Raskolnikov leaves the apartment, hides in an empty apartment on the third floor, while the old visitors with the janitor climb the stairs to the fourth floor, and runs out of the house into the street. He is dying of fear and hardly knows what to do next. Approaching his house, he remembers the ax, puts it in its place in the janitor's room, where again there was no one. Finally Raskolnikov is in his room. Oya throws herself down on the couch.

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

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

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

PART FIVE Luzhin, getting out of bed the next morning, tries to come to terms with the thought of breaking up with Dunya. He is angry that yesterday he reported the failure to his friend Lebezyatnikov and he laughs at him. Other troubles also irritate him: his troubles in one case in the Senate ended in nothing, the owner of the apartment he rented demands payment of a penalty in full, the furniture store does not want to return the deposit. All this strengthens Luzhin's hatred for Raskolnikov. He regrets that he did not give money to Duna and her mother - because in this case they would feel obliged to him. Luzhin recalls that he was invited to the wake of Marmeladov. He learns that Raskolnikov will also be there. Luzhin despises and hates Lebezyatnikov, his former pet, with whom he stayed, having found out about him back in the provinces, that he was one of the most advanced progressives and seemed to play an important role in some circles. Luzhin heard about some kind of progressives, nihilists, accusers, etc., existing in the capital. And he is most afraid of reproof. Therefore, heading to St. Petersburg, Luzhin decided to quickly find out what and how, and, if necessary, just in case, get closer to “our young generations”. And Andrei Semenovich Lebezyatnikov was supposed to help him in this, although he turned out to be a “vulgar and rustic” person. This is one of those numerous vulgar, half-educated tyrants who stick to every fashionable idea, turning it into a caricature, although they serve it sincerely. Lebezyatnikov also feels hostility towards his former guardian, although he sometimes starts talking with him about all sorts of “progressive” things. He is going to arrange a commune, in which he intends to involve Sonya, whom he himself once survived from the apartment. In the meantime, he “continues to develop” Sonya and is surprised that she is somehow fearfully chaste and bashful with him. Taking advantage of the fact that Sonya was being talked about, Luzhin asks Lebezyatnikov to call her to his room. She comes, and Luzhin gives her ten rubles for the widow. Lebe-Zyatnikov admired his deed. The pride of the poor and vanity forced Katerina Ivanovna to spend almost half of the money received from Raskolnikov on the commemoration. Amalia Ivanovna, the landlady, with whom Katerina Ivanovna used to be at enmity, takes an active part in the preparations. To Katerina Ivanovna's displeasure, of all the "respectable" persons invited by her, not a single one appeared. There is no Luzhin or even Lebezyatnikov. Raskolnikov arrives. Katerina Ivanovna is very pleased with him. Sonya apologizes on behalf of Luzhin. Katerina Ivanovna is very agitated, talking without ceasing, coughing up blood, close to hysteria. Sonya is afraid that all this will end badly. And so it happens - a quarrel breaks out between Katerina Ivanovna and the landlady. In the midst of the scandal, Luzhin appears. He claims that a hundred rubles disappeared from his table when Sonya was in the room. The girl says that he himself gave her ten rubles, but she did not take anything else. Luzhin demands to call the police. Katerina Ivanovna rushes to Sonya's defense, turning out the pockets of her dress, wanting to show that there is nothing there. A hundred-ruble banknote falls to the floor. Katerina Ivanovna screams that Sonya is incapable of stealing, turns to Raskolnikov for protection, and cries. This is enough for Luzhin - he publicly forgives Sonya. Lebezyatnikov, who appeared at that moment, refutes Luzhin's accusation: he himself saw how Luzhin quietly slipped a banknote into Sonya's pocket. He thought then that Luzhin was doing this out of nobility, in order to avoid words of gratitude. Lebezyatnikov is ready to swear before the police, but he will not understand why Luzhin committed such a low act. “I can explain!” Raskolnikov says. He reports that Luzhin wooed his sister, on the day of his arrival he quarreled with him, Raskolnikov, and accidentally saw how he gave money to Katerina Ivanovna. In order to quarrel Rodion with his mother and sister, Luzhin wrote to them that he had given Sonya their last money, and hinted at some connection between him and Sonya. The truth was restored, Luzhin was driven out. If now Luzhin convinced everyone that Sonya was a thief, then by doing so he would prove to Raskolnikov's mother and sister the validity of his suspicions. In general, he wanted to embroil Raskolnikov with his family. Sonya is confused, does not take her eyes off Raskolnikov, seeing him as a protector. Luzhin is looking for a way out in impudence. He intends to sue, he will find justice for "godless, rebels and freethinkers"! With this, Luzhin disappears. Sonya becomes hysterical, she runs home crying. Amalia Ivanovna drives Marmeladov's widow out of the apartment. Drunken residents are rowdy. Raskolnikov goes to Sonya. Raskolnikov feels: “he must” tell Sonya who killed Lizaveta, and foresees the terrible torment that will be the results of this confession. He hesitates and is afraid, but is conscious of "his impotence in the face of necessity" to say everything. Raskolnikov asks Sonya: what would she do if she had to decide whether to die Luzhin or Katerina Ivanovna? Sonya replies: she had a presentiment that Rodion would ask her such a question. She does not know God's providence, she is not a judge and it is not for her to decide who is to be told and who is not to live. She asks Raskolnikov to speak directly. That obi-vyakami confesses to the deliberate murder of the old woman and the accidental murder of Dyazaveta. “What have you done to yourself! ... There is no one more unhappy than you now in the whole world!” Sonya screams in despair, hugging Raskolnikov. She will go with Rodion to hard labor! But suddenly Sonya realizes that the schismatics have not yet fully realized the gravity of what he has done. She asks about the details of the crime. “... I wanted to become Napoleon, that's why I killed ...” - says Raskolnikov. It would never have occurred to Napoleon to think about whether to kill the old woman or not, if he needed it. He, Raskolnikov, killed only a louse, useless, nasty, malicious. No, he refutes himself, he’s not a louse, but he wanted to dare and killed ... The main thing that pushed Raskolnikov to murder, he explains as follows: “I had to find out ... a louse, like everyone else, or a person? I killed myself! .. What should I do now? .. ”- Raskolnikov turns to Sonya. She answers him that he should go to the crossroads, kiss the ground that he defiled with murder, bow on all four sides and say out loud to everyone: “I killed!” Raskolnikov must accept suffering and atone for his guilt. But he does not want to repent before the people who “torment millions of people, and even consider them a virtue... They are swindlers and scoundrels... they won’t understand anything...”. “I will still fight,” says Raskolnikov. “Maybe I’m still a person, not a louse, and hastened to condemn myself ... I won’t give myself to them.” And then he asks Sonya if she will go to prison with him. She wants to give him her pectoral cross, he does not take it, says: "It's better later." Lebeziatnikov looks into the room. He reports that Katerina Ivanovna is out of her mind: she went to her husband’s former boss, made a scandal there, came home, beats the children, sews some hats for them, is going to take them out into the street, walk around the yards and beat on the basin, instead of music, and the children will sing and dance ... Sonya runs away, Raskolnikov and Lebezyatnikov go after her. Raskolnikov goes to his closet. He scolds himself for going to Sonya and making her unhappy with his confession. Dunya arrives. Razumi-hin told her about the baseless suspicions of the investigator. Dunya assures her brother that she is ready to give him her whole life, if only she would call her. Rodion praises Razumikhin as "an honest man and capable of much love" and says to his sister: "Farewell." Dunya leaves in alarm. Raskolnikov leaves the house. Anguish comes over him, a premonition of long years filled with this longing. They call to Raskolnikov - this is Lebeziatnikov. He reports that Katerina Ivanovna walks the streets, beats a frying pan and makes children sing and dance. They are crying. Sonya unsuccessfully tries to take her home. Young people come to a small crowd of onlookers, staring at a strange sight. Katerina Ivanovna is in a complete frenzy, beating children, shouting at the audience, trying to sing, coughing, crying ... Some gentleman gives her three rubles. A policeman comes up, demands “not to be rude”. The children run away, Katerina Ivanovna, screaming and crying, rushes after them, stumbles and falls, her throat bleeding opens. They carry her to Sonya. People gather in the room, and among them is Svidrigailov. Katerina Ivanovna is delirious. Dies. Svidrigailov proposes to pay for the funeral, place the children in an orphanage and put one thousand five hundred rubles into the bank for each until they come of age. He is going to “pull out of the pool” and Sonya. From the speeches of Svidrigailov, Raskolnikov understands that he heard his conversation with Sonya. Svidrigailov himself does not deny this. “After all, I said that we would get together,” he says to Raskolnikov.

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

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

EPILOGUE Siberia. On the bank of a wide, deserted river stands a city, one of the administrative centers of Russia; a fortress in the city, a prison in the fortress. For nine months now, Rodion Raskolnikov, a convict of the second category, has been imprisoned in the prison. Almost a year and a half has passed since the day of his crime.” At the trial, Raskolnikov did not hide anything. The fact that he hid the purse and things under a stone, without using them and not even knowing what and how much he stole, how much money was in the purse, struck the investigator and the judges. From this it was concluded that the crime "has happened with some temporary insanity." “The offender not only did not want to justify himself, but even, as it were, expressed a desire to accuse himself even more.” The frank confession and everything said above contributed to the mitigation of the sentence. In addition, other circumstances favorable to the defendant were accepted: during his studies at the university, he supported a consumptive comrade from his last means, and after his death he looked after his sick father, placed him in a hospital, and after his death he buried him. Raskolnikov's landlady testified at the trial that Raskolnikov once saved two small children from a fire. In a word, the offender was sentenced to only eight years of hard labor. Pulcheria Alexandrovna, whom everyone assured that her son had gone somewhere abroad, nevertheless feels something sinister in her soul and lives only in anticipation of a letter from Rodion. Her mind is troubled, and soon she dies. Dunya marries Razumikhin, having invited Porfiry Petrovich and Zosimov to the wedding. Razumikhin resumed his studies at the university and is determined to move to Siberia in a few years, in which he confessed. He is also tormented by the thought, why did he not commit suicide? Everyone does not like him and avoid him, then they hated him. “You are a sir! - they told him ... - You are an atheist! ...I need to kill you.” Raskolnikov is silent. He is surprised at one thing: why did everyone love Sonya so much? Raskolnikov is admitted to the hospital. In delirium, he imagines that the world must perish due to some unprecedented disease. Only a select few will survive. Affected by a microbe, people go crazy, consider any thought, any belief to be the ultimate truth. Everyone believes that the truth lies in him alone. Nobody knows what is good and what is evil. There is a war of all against all. Everything dies. During the entire time of Raskolnikov's illness, Sonya was on duty under his windows, and one day Raskolnikov accidentally saw her through the window. Sonia did not come for two days. Raskolnikov, returning to prison, finds out that she is sick and lies at home. Sonya tells him in a note that she will soon recover and will come to see him. “When he read this note, his heart beat strongly and painfully.” The next day, when Raskolnikov was working on the kiln by the river, Sonya comes up to him and timidly holds out her hand to him. “But suddenly something, as it were, picked him up and, as it were, threw him at her feet. He cried and hugged her knees ... ”Sonya understands that Raskolnikov loves her. “Both were pale and thin; but in these sick and pale faces already shone the dawn of a renewed future, a full resurrection into a new life.” They decide to wait and be patient. There are still seven years left. “But he was resurrected - and he knew it, he felt it completely with his whole renewed being ...” In the evening, lying on the bunk, he takes out the Gospel brought by Sonya from under the pillow.

1
“At the beginning of July, in an extremely hot time, in the evening, one young man came out of his closet, which he hired from tenants in S-th Lane, into the street and slowly, as if in indecision, went to the K-nu bridge.”
He avoids meeting with the landlady, as he has a large debt. “It’s not that he is so cowardly and downtrodden ... but for some time he was in an irritable and tense state, similar to hypochondria ... He was crushed by poverty.” A young man thinks about some business he has planned (“Am I capable of this?”). “He was remarkably good-looking, with beautiful dark eyes, dark-haired, taller than average, thin and slender,” but so badly dressed that in such rags it would be a shame for another person to go out into the street. He goes “to test his enterprise”, and therefore he is worried. Approaches the house, which "was all in small apartments and was inhabited by all sorts of industrialists." Climbing the stairs, he feels fear and thinks about how he would feel, "if it really somehow happened to get to the point."
He calls, a “tiny dry old woman, about sixty years old, with sharp and angry eyes, with a small pointed nose and simple hair, opens it for him. Her blond, slightly graying hair was greasyly oiled. On her thin and long neck, resembling a chicken leg, some kind of flannel rag was wrapped around, and on her shoulders, despite the heat, all the disheveled and yellowed fur katsaveyka dangled. The young man reminds him that he is Raskolnikov, a student who had been here a month earlier. He enters a room furnished with old furniture, but clean, says that he brought a mortgage, and shows an old flat silver watch, promises to bring another little thing the other day, takes the money and leaves.
Raskolnikov torments himself with thoughts that what he conceived is "dirty, dirty, disgusting." In the tavern, he drinks beer, and his doubts are dispelled.

2
Raskolnikov usually avoided society, but in the tavern he talks with a man “already over fifty years old, of medium height and dense build, with gray hair and a large bald head, with a yellow, even greenish face swollen from constant drunkenness and with swollen eyelids, because of which tiny eyes shone.” It "had both meaning and intelligence." He introduces himself to Raskolnikov as follows: “I am a titular adviser, Marmeladov.” He says in response that he is studying. Marmeladov tells him that “poverty is not a vice, it is the truth”: “I know that drunkenness is not a virtue, and even more so. But poverty, sir, poverty is a vice. In poverty, you still retain your nobility of innate feelings; in poverty, no one ever does. For poverty, they are not even driven out with a stick, but swept out of human company with a broom, so that it would be all the more insulting; and justly, for in poverty I myself am the first ready to offend myself. He talks about his wife, whose name is Katerina Ivanovna. She is "a lady, though generous, but unfair." With her first husband, who was an officer, she ran away without receiving parental blessings. Her husband beat her, he liked to play cards. She gave birth to three children. When her husband died, Katerina Ivanovna, out of hopelessness, remarried Marmeladov. She is constantly at work, but "with a weak chest and inclined to consumption." Marmeladov was an official, but then he lost his job. He was also married and has a daughter Sonya. In order to somehow support herself and her family, Sonya was forced to go to the panel. She lives in the apartment of the tailor Kapernaumov, whose family is "tongue-tied". Marmeladov stole the key to the chest from his wife and took the money, with which he drank for the sixth day in a row. He was at Sonya's, "he went to ask for a hangover," and she gave him thirty kopecks, "the last, all that was." Rodion Raskolnikov takes him home, where he meets Katerina Ivanovna. It was "a terribly thin woman, thin, rather tall and slender, still with beautiful dark blond hair ... Her eyes shone as if in a fever, but her gaze was sharp and motionless, and this consumptive and agitated face made a painful impression." Her children were in the room: a girl of about six was sleeping on the floor, a boy was crying in the corner, and a thin girl of about nine was calming him down. There is a scandal over the money that Marmeladov drank away. Leaving, Raskolnikov takes from his pocket “how much copper money he got from the ruble exchanged in the drinking-room,” and leaves it on the window. On the way, Raskolnikov thinks: “Oh, Sonya! What a well, however, they managed to dig! and enjoy!

3
In the morning, Raskolnikov "with hatred" examines his closet. “It was a tiny cell, about six paces long, which had the most miserable appearance with its yellowish, dusty wallpaper everywhere lagging behind the wall, and so low that a slightly tall person felt terribly in it, and it always seemed that you were about to hit your head on the ceiling. The furniture matched the room. The hostess has already "two weeks since she stopped letting him eat." The cook Nastasya brings tea and says that the hostess wants to report him to the police. The girl also brings a letter from her mother. Raskolnikov is reading. The mother asks him for forgiveness for not being able to send the money. He learns that his sister, Dunya, who worked as a governess for the Svidrigailovs, has been at home for a month and a half. As it turned out, Svidrigailov, who "had long ago had a passion for Dunya," began to persuade the girl to a love affair. This conversation was accidentally overheard by Svidrigailov's wife, Marfa Petrovna, who blamed Dunya for what happened and, having kicked her out, spread gossip throughout the county. For this reason, acquaintances preferred not to have any relationship with the Raskolnikovs. However, Svidrigailov "came to his senses and repented" and "provided Marfa Petrovna full and obvious evidence of this Dunechkina's innocence." Marfa Petrovna informed her acquaintances about this, and immediately the attitude towards Raskolnikov changed. This story contributed to the fact that Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin (“he is a businesslike and busy man and hurries to St. Petersburg”) wooed Dunya, and “this is a firm, prudent, patient and generous girl, although with an ardent heart.” There is no love between them, but Dunya "for her duty will set herself to make her husband's happiness." Luzhin wanted to marry an honest girl who did not have a dowry, “who had already experienced a plight; because, as he explained, a husband should not owe anything to his wife, but it is much better if the wife considers her husband to be her benefactor. He is going to open a public law office in St. Petersburg. Mother hopes that in the future Luzhin will be able to be useful to Rodion, and is going to come to St. Petersburg, where Luzhin will soon marry his sister. He promises to send him thirty-five rubles.
Raskolnikov read the letter and wept. Then he lay down, but thoughts haunted him. He "grabbed his hat, went out" and headed towards Vasilyevsky Island through V-th Avenue. Passers-by mistook him for a drunk.

4
Raskolnikov realizes that his sister, in order to help him, her brother, is selling herself. He intends to interfere with this marriage, he is angry with Luzhin. Arguing with himself, sorting through each line of the letter, Raskolnikov remarks: “Luzhin’s purity is the same as Sonyechkin’s purity, and maybe even worse, uglier, meaner, because you, Dunechka, still rely on excess comfort, and there it’s just about starvation!” He cannot accept his sister's sacrifices. Raskolnikov torments himself for a long time with questions that "were not new, not sudden, but old, sore, old." He wants to sit down and is looking for a bench, but then he suddenly sees a drunken teenage girl on the boulevard, who, obviously, having drunk, dishonored and kicked out. She falls onto the bench. “Before him was an extremely young face, about sixteen years old, maybe even only fifteen, - small, blond, pretty, but all flared up and as if swollen.” A gentleman has already been found who is trying on a girl, but Raskolnikov interferes with him. “This gentleman was about thirty, dense, fat, blood-and-milk, with pink lips and a mustache, and very smartly dressed.” Raskolnikov is angry and therefore shouts to him: “Svidrigailov, get out!” - and pounces on him with his fists. The policeman intervenes in the fight, listens to Raskolnikov, and then, having received money from Raskolnikov, takes the girl home in a cab. Rodion Raskolnikov, talking about what awaits this girl in the future, comes to the understanding that her fate awaits many.
He goes to his friend Razumikhin, who "was one of his former university comrades." Raskolnikov studied hard, did not communicate with anyone and did not take part in any events, he "as if he was hiding something to himself." Razumikhin, “tall, thin, always poorly shaven, black-haired”, “was an unusually cheerful and sociable guy, kind to the point of simplicity. However, under this simplicity both depth and dignity lurked. Everyone loved him. He did not attach importance to life's difficulties. “He was very poor and decidedly himself, alone, supported himself, earning money by some work.” It happened that he did not heat the room in winter and claimed that he slept better in the cold. He now temporarily did not study, but was in a hurry to improve things in order to continue his studies. About two months ago, the friends saw each other briefly on the street, but did not disturb each other with communication.

5
Razumikhin promised to help Raskolnikov "learn lessons." Not understanding himself why he is dragging himself to a friend, Raskolnikov decides: “After that, I’ll go when it’s already over and when everything goes in a new way.” And he catches himself thinking that he is seriously thinking about what he has planned, he thinks as about a matter that he must bring to the end. He goes where his eyes look. In a nervous chill, he "passed Vasilyevsky Island, went to the Malaya Neva, crossed the bridge and turned to the islands." He stops and counts the money: about thirty kopecks. He calculates that he left about fifty kopecks with Marmeladov. In the tavern he drinks a glass of vodka and eats a pie already on the street. He stops “in complete exhaustion” and falls asleep in the bushes before reaching the house. He sees in a dream that he, a little boy, about seven years old, is walking with his father outside the city. Not far from the last of the city gardens stood a tavern, which always aroused fear in him, since a lot of drunken and pugnacious peasants wandered around. Rodion and his father go to the cemetery, where the grave of his younger brother is located, past the tavern, next to which stands a “skinny savras peasant nag” harnessed to a large cart. From the tavern, a drunken Mikolka is heading towards the cart, who offers to sit on it to a noisy, spreeful crowd. The horse cannot move the cart with so many riders, and Mikolka begins to whip it with a whip. Someone tries to stop him, and two guys flog the horse from the sides. With several blows of the crowbar, Mikolka kills the horse. Little Raskolnikov runs “up to the Savraska, grabs her dead, bloody muzzle and kisses her, kisses her eyes, lips,” and then “in a frenzy, he rushes with his fists at Mikolka.” The father takes him away. Waking up covered in sweat, Raskolnikov asks himself: is he capable of murder? Yesterday he did a “test” and realized that he was not capable. He is ready to renounce his "damned dream", he feels free. Heading home through Sennaya Square. He sees Lizaveta Ivanovna, the younger sister of "the same old woman Alena Ivanovna, collegiate registrar and pawnbroker, who had a visit yesterday." Lizaveta “was a tall, clumsy, timid and humble girl, almost an idiot, thirty-five years old, who was in complete slavery to her sister, worked for her day and night, trembled before her and even suffered beatings from her.” Raskolnikov hears that Lizaveta is being invited to visit tomorrow, so that the old woman “will stay at home alone,” and realizes that “he no longer has any freedom of mind or will, and that everything has suddenly been decided completely.”

6
There was nothing unusual in the fact that Lizaveta was invited to visit, she traded in women's things, which she bought from "visiting impoverished" families, and also "took commissions, went about business and had a lot of practice, because she was very honest and always said the highest price."
Student Pokorev, leaving, gave the address of the old woman to Raskolnikov, "if he had to pawn something in case." About a month and a half ago, he took there the ring that his sister gave him when parting. At first glance, he felt an “irresistible disgust” for the old woman and, taking two “tickets”, went to the tavern. Entering the tavern, Raskolnikov inadvertently overheard what the officer and student were talking about the old pawnbroker and Lizaveta. According to the student, the old woman is a “glorious woman”, since “you can always get money from her”: “She is rich, like a Jew, she can give out five thousand at once, and she does not disdain a ruble mortgage.
She has had many of ours. Only a terrible bitch. The student tells that the old woman keeps Lizaveta in "perfect enslavement". After the death of the old woman, Lizaveta should not receive anything, since everything is written off to the monastery. The student said that without any shame of conscience he would have killed and robbed the "damned old woman", because so many people are disappearing, and in the meantime "a thousand good deeds and undertakings ... can be corrected for the old woman's money." The officer noticed that she was “unworthy of life,” but “there is nature here,” and asked the student the question: “Will you kill the old woman yourself or not?” "Of course no! - answered the student. - I'm for justice ... It's not about me here ... "
Raskolnikov, worried, realizes that in his head “just born ... exactly the same thoughts” about murder for the sake of higher justice, like an unfamiliar student.

Returning from the Hay, Raskolnikov lies motionless for about an hour, then falls asleep. In the morning Nastasya brings him tea and soup. Raskolnikov prepares to kill. To do this, he sews a belt loop under his coat to secure the ax, then wraps a piece of wood with a piece of iron in paper - he makes an imitation of a "mortgage" to divert the attention of the old woman. Raskolnikov believes that crimes are so easily revealed, since “the criminal himself, and almost everyone, at the moment of the crime, undergoes some kind of decline in will and reason, replaced, on the contrary, by childish phenomenal frivolity, and precisely at the moment when reason and caution are most needed. According to his conviction, it turned out that this eclipse of the mind and the decline of the will seize a person like an illness, develop gradually and reach its highest moment shortly before the commission of the crime; continue in the same form at the very moment of the crime and for some time after it, judging by the individual; then they pass, just as any disease passes. Not finding the ax in the kitchen, Raskolnikov "was terribly amazed," but then stole the ax from the janitor's room.
On the way, he walks "sedately" so as not to arouse suspicion. He is not afraid, because his thoughts are occupied with something else: “so, it’s true, those who are being led to execution cling in their thoughts to all the objects that they meet on the road.”
He does not meet anyone on the stairs, he notices that on the second floor in the apartment the door is open, as it is being renovated. When he reaches the door, he rings. They don't open it for him. Raskolnikov listens and realizes that someone is standing outside the door. After the third call, he hears that the constipation is being relieved.

7
Raskolnikov frightened the old woman by pulling the door towards him, as he was afraid that she would close it. She did not pull the door towards her, but did not release the handle of the lock. He almost pulled the handle of the lock, along with the door, onto the stairs. Raskolnikov goes to the room, where he gives the old woman the prepared “mortgage”. Taking advantage of the fact that the pawnbroker went to the window to examine the “mortgage” and “stands behind him,” Raskolnikov takes out an ax. “His hands were terribly weak; he himself heard how they, with every moment, became more and more dumb and stiff. He was afraid that he would release and drop the ax ... suddenly his head seemed to be spinning. He hits the old woman on the head with a butt. “It’s as if his strength was not there. But as soon as he lowered the ax once, then strength was born in him. After making sure that the old woman is dead, he carefully takes out the keys from her pocket. When he finds himself in the bedroom, it seems to him that the old woman is still alive, and, grabbing an ax, he runs back to hit again, but he sees a "string" around the neck of the murdered woman, on which hang two crosses, a small icon and "a small greasy suede purse with a steel rim and a ring." He puts the wallet in his pocket. Among the clothes he looks for golden things, but does not have time to take much. Suddenly, Lizaveta appears, and Raskolnikov rushes at her with an ax. After that, fear takes over. Every minute he grows disgusted with what he has done. In the kitchen, he washes away traces of blood from his hands and an ax, from his boots. He sees that the door is ajar, and therefore “locked it”. He listens and understands that someone is rising "here". The doorbell rings, but Raskolnikov does not answer. Behind the door, they notice that it is hooked, from the inside, they suspect that something has happened. Two of the visitors go downstairs to call the janitor. One stays at the door, but then also comes down. At this moment, Rodion Raskolnikov leaves the apartment, goes down the stairs and hides in the apartment where the renovation is going on. When people go up to the old pawnbroker, Raskolnikov runs from the scene of the crime. At home, he needs to discreetly put the ax back. Since the janitor is not visible, Raskolnikov puts the ax back in its original place. He returns to the room and, without undressing, throws himself on the sofa, where he lies in oblivion. “If anyone had entered the room at that time, he would have immediately jumped up and screamed. Scraps and fragments of some thoughts swarmed in his head; but he could not grab a single one, he could not stop at a single one, despite even his efforts ... "

PART TWO
1
The first thought that flashes through Raskolnikov when he wakes up is that he will "go crazy." Chills him. He jumps up and looks at himself at the window to see if there are any clues, repeats the inspection three times. Seeing that the fringe on his pantaloons is stained with blood, he cuts it off. He hides the stolen things in a hole under the paper. When he takes off his boot, he notices that the tip of his toe is covered in blood. After that, he checks everything a few more times, but then falls on the sofa and falls asleep. Waking up from a knock on the door. A janitor appears with a summons to the police. Raskolnikov has no idea why he is called. He decides that they want to lure him into a trap in this way. He intends to confess if asked about the murder. At the station, the scribe sends him to the clerk. He informs Raskolnikov that he was summoned in the case of the recovery of money by the landlady. Raskolnikov explains his situation: he wanted to marry the daughter of the landlady, spent, slapped bills; when the master's daughter died of typhus, her mother began to demand payment of bills. “The clerk began to dictate to him the form of an ordinary recall in such a case, that is, I can’t pay, I promise then (someday), I won’t leave the city, I won’t sell or give away property, and so on.”
In the precinct they are talking about the murder of an old pawnbroker. Raskolnikov faints. When he comes to, he says he doesn't feel well. Once on the street, he is tormented by the thought that he is suspected.

2
After making sure that he did not have a search in his room, Raskolnikov takes the stolen things and "loads his pockets with them." He heads to the embankment of the Catherine Canal to get rid of all this, but refuses this intention, because "they might notice there." Goes to the Neva. Coming to the square from V-th Avenue, he notices the entrance to the courtyard, "a deaf fenced off place." He hides the stolen things under a stone, without even looking at how much money was in his wallet, for the sake of which "he took all the torment and deliberately went to such a vile, nasty deed." Everything that he meets along the way seems to be hateful to him.
He comes to Razumikhin, who notices that his friend is sick and delirious. Raskolnikov wants to leave, but Razumikhin stops him and offers to help. Raskolnikov leaves. On the embankment, he almost falls under a passing carriage, for which the coachman whips him on the back with a whip. The merchant's wife gives him two kopecks, as she takes him for a beggar. Raskolnikov throws a coin into the Neva.
Goes to bed at home. Delirious. It seems to him that Ilya Petrovich is beating the landlady, and she is screaming loudly. Opening his eyes, he sees the cook Nastasya in front of him, who brought him a bowl of soup. He asks why they beat the hostess. The cook says that no one beat her, that it is the blood in him that screams. Raskolnikov falls into unconsciousness.

3
When Raskolnikov woke up on the fourth day, Nastasya and a young guy in a caftan, with a beard, who "looked like an artel worker" were standing at his bedside. The hostess looked out of the door, who “was shy and endured conversations and explanations with difficulty, she was about forty, and she was fat and fat, black-browed and black-eyed, kind from fat and from laziness; and even very pretty with herself. Razumikhin enters. The guy in the caftan actually turns out to be an artel worker from the merchant Shelopaev. The artel worker reports that through their office a transfer from his mother came to Raskolnikov's name, and gives him 35 rubles. Razumikhin tells Raskolnikov that Zosimov examined him and said that it’s nothing serious that he now dine here every day, since the hostess, Pashenka, honors him with all her heart, that he found him and got acquainted with the affairs, that he vouched for him and gave Chebarov ten rubles. He gives Raskolnikov a loan letter. Raskolnikov asks him what he was talking about in delirium. He replies that he mumbled something about earrings, chains, about Krestovy Island, about a janitor, about Nikodim Fomich and Ilya Petrovich, for some reason he was very interested in socks, fringe from pantaloons. Razumikhin takes ten rubles and leaves, promising to return in an hour. After examining the room and making sure that everything he hid remained in place, Raskolnikov falls asleep again. Razumikhin brings clothes from Fedyaev's shop and shows them to Raskolnikov, while Nastasya makes her remarks about the purchases.

4
To examine the sick Raskolnikov, a medical student named Zosimov comes, “a tall and fat man, with a puffy and colorless-pale, smooth-shaven face, with blond straight hair, wearing glasses and with a large gold ring on his finger swollen from fat. He was twenty-seven years old ... All those who knew him found him a difficult person, but they said that he knew his business. There is a conversation about the murder of an old woman. Raskolnikov turns to the wall and examines the flower on the wallpaper, as he feels that his arms and legs are going numb. Razumikhin, meanwhile, reports that the dyer Mikolai has already been arrested on suspicion of murder, and Koch and Pestryakov, who had been detained earlier, were released. Mikolay drank for several days in a row, and then brought a case with gold earrings to the owner of the tavern, Dushkin, which he, in his words, “raised on the panel.” After drinking a couple of glasses and taking change from one ruble, Mikolay ran away. He was detained after a thorough search for “a nearby outpost, in an inn,” where he wanted to hang himself drunk in a shed. Mikolay swears that he did not kill, that he found the earrings behind the door on the floor where he and Mitriy were painting. Zosimov and Razumikhin are trying to reconstruct the picture of the murder. Zosimov doubts that the real killer has been detained.

5
Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin arrives, “already middle-aged, prim, portly, with a cautious and obese physiognomy”, and, looking around Raskolnikov’s “cramped and low“ sea cabin ”, reports that his sister and mother are coming. “In general terms, Pyotr Petrovich was struck by something special, as it were, namely, something that seemed to justify the name “groom”, so unceremoniously given to him now. In the first place, it was obvious, and even too noticeable, that Pyotr Petrovich was in a hurry to take advantage of a few days in the capital in order to have time to dress up and put on make-up in anticipation of the bride, which, however, was very innocent and permissible. Even his own, perhaps even too self-satisfied, his own consciousness of his pleasant change for the better could be forgiven for such an occasion, for Pyotr Petrovich was on the line of the groom. Luzhin regrets that he found Raskolnikov in such a state, reports that his sister and mother will temporarily stay in the rooms maintained by the merchant Yushin, that he has found an apartment for them, but temporarily he himself lives in the rooms of Mrs. Lippevechsel in the apartment of an acquaintance, Andrei Semenych Lebezyatnikov. Luzhin talks about progress driven by self-interest. “If, for example, up to now I have been told: “love,” and I loved, then what came of it? - Pyotr Petrovich continued, perhaps with excessive haste, - it turned out that I tore the caftan in half, shared it with my neighbor, and both of us remained half naked, according to the Russian proverb: "You follow several hares at once, and you will not achieve a single one." Science says: love yourself first of all, for everything in the world is based on personal interest. If you love yourself alone, then you will do your business properly and your caftan will remain intact. Economic truth, however, adds that the more private affairs and, so to speak, whole coats are arranged in a society, the more solid foundations for it and the more common business is arranged in it. Therefore, by acquiring solely and exclusively for myself, I thereby acquire, as it were, for everyone and lead to the fact that my neighbor receives a slightly more tattered caftan, and no longer from private, individual generosity, but as a result of universal prosperity. Talk about murder again. Zosimov reports that they are interrogating those who brought things to the old woman. Luzhin discusses the reasons for the growth of crime. Raskolnikov and Luzhin quarrel. Zosimov and Razumikhin, leaving Raskolnikov's room, notice that Raskolnikov does not react to anything, "except for one point, from which he loses his temper: murder. ..". Zosimov asks Razumikhin to tell him more about Raskolnikov. Nastasya asks Raskolnikov if he will drink some tea. He frantically turns his back to the wall.

6
Left alone, Raskolnikov puts on a dress bought by Razumikhin and leaves to roam the streets unnoticed by anyone. He is sure that he will not return home, because he needs to end his former life, he "does not want to live like this." He wants to talk to someone, but no one cares about him. He listens to the singing of women at the house, which was "all under drinking and other eating establishments." Gives the girl "for a drink." He talks about who was sentenced to death: let it be on a high rock above the ocean, let it be on a small platform on which only two legs fit, but just to live. He reads newspapers in a tavern. With Zametov, who was in the station during Raskolnikov's fainting and later visited him during his illness, they begin to talk about the murder. “Raskolnikov’s motionless and serious face was transformed in an instant, and suddenly he again burst into the same nervous laughter as before, as if he himself was completely unable to restrain himself. And in an instant, he recalled with extreme clarity of sensation one recent moment when he stood outside the door, with an ax, the lock was jumping, they were swearing and breaking behind the door, and he suddenly wanted to shout at them, swear at them, stick out their tongue, tease them, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh! Zametov notes that he is "either crazy or ...". Raskolnikov talks about counterfeiters, and then, when the conversation returns to the murder, he says what he would do in the place of the killer: he would hide the stolen things in a remote place under a stone and not get them for a couple of years. Zametov again calls him crazy. “That one's eyes sparkled; he turned terribly pale; his upper lip trembled and twitched. He leaned as close as possible to Zametov and began to move his lips, saying nothing; this went on for half a minute; he knew what he was doing, but he couldn't help himself. The terrible word, like the constipation in the door of that time, jumped on his lips: it was about to break; just about to let him down, just about to utter it!” He asks Zametov: “What if I killed the old woman and Lizaveta?”, And then leaves. On the porch he runs into Razumikhin, who invites him to a housewarming party. Raskolnikov wants to be left alone, as he cannot recover due to being constantly annoyed.
On the bridge, Raskolnikov sees a woman who rushes down, watches as she is pulled out. Thinking about suicide.
He finds himself at "that" house, in which he has not been since "that" evening. "An irresistible and inexplicable desire drew him in." He examines the stairs with curiosity, notices that the apartment, which was renovated, is locked. In the apartment where the murder took place, the walls are covered with new wallpaper. “For some reason, Raskolnikov did not like this terribly; he looked at this new wallpaper with hostility, as if it were a pity that everything had changed so much. When the workers asked Raskolnikov what he needed, he “got up, went out into the hallway, grabbed the bell and pulled. The same bell, the same tin sound! He pulled a second, third time; he listened and remembered. The former, excruciatingly terrible, ugly feeling began to be remembered more and more vividly, he shuddered with every blow, and it became more and more pleasant for him. Raskolnikov says that “there was a whole puddle here,” and now the blood has been washed away. Going down the stairs, Raskolnikov goes to the exit, where he meets several people, among them a janitor, who asks him why he came. “Look,” Raskolnikov replies. The janitor and the others decide that it is not worth messing with him, and they drive him away.

7
Raskolnikov sees a crowd of people who have surrounded a man who has just been crushed by horses, "poorly dressed, but in a" noble "dress, covered in blood." The master's carriage stands in the middle of the street, and the driver laments that he shouted, they say, to beware, but he was drunk. Raskolnikov recognizes the unfortunate Marmeladov. He asks for a doctor and says that he knows where Marmeladov lives. The crushed man is carried home, where three children, Polenka, Lidochka and a boy, listen to Katerina Ivanovna's memories of their past life. Marmeladov's wife undresses her husband, and Raskolnikov sends for a doctor. Katerina Ivanovna sends Paul to Sonya, shouting at those gathered in the room. Marmeladov at death. They send for the priest. The doctor, having examined Marmeladov, says that he is about to die. The priest confesses the dying man, and then communes him, everyone prays. Sonya appears, “also in rags; her outfit was cheap, but decorated in a street style, according to the taste and rules that have developed in her own special world, with a bright and shameful outstanding goal. She "was small, about eighteen years old, thin, but rather pretty blonde, with wonderful blue eyes." Before his death, Marmeladov asks for forgiveness from his daughter. Dies in her arms. Raskolnikov gives Katerina Ivanovna twenty-five rubles and leaves. In the crowd, he stumbles upon Nikodim Fomich, whom he has not seen since the scene in the office. Nikodim Fomich says to Raskolnikov: “However, how did you wet yourself with blood,” to which he remarks: “I am covered in blood.” Raskolnikov is overtaken by Polenka, who was sent for him by his mother and Sonya. Raskolnikov asks her to pray for him and promises to come tomorrow. He thought: “Strength, strength is needed: without strength you can’t take anything; but strength must be obtained by force, and that’s what they don’t know.” “Pride and self-confidence grew in him every minute; already in the next minute it was not the same person that was in the previous one. He comes to Razumikhin. He escorts him home and during the conversation admits that Zametov and Ilya Petrovich suspected Raskolnikov of the murder, but Zametov now repents of this. He adds that the investigator, Porfiry Petrovich, wants to get to know him. Raskolnikov says that he saw one man die and that he gave all the money to his widow.
Approaching the house, they notice a light in the window. Raskolnikov's mother and sister are waiting in the room. Seeing him, they joyfully rush to him. Rodion loses consciousness. Razumikhin reassures women. They are very grateful to him, because they heard about him from Nastasya.

PART THREE

1
Having come to his senses, Raskolnikov asks Pulcheria Alexandrovna, who intended to stay overnight with her son, to return to where she and Dunya had stopped. Razumikhin promises that he will stay with him. Raskolnikov tells his sister and mother, whom he has not seen for three years, that he kicked out Luzhin. He asks his sister not to marry this man, because he does not want such a sacrifice from her. Mother and sister are confused. Razumikhin promises them that he will settle everything. “He stood with both ladies, grabbing them both by the hands, persuading them and presenting them with reasons with amazing frankness and, probably, for greater conviction, almost with every word of his, tightly, tightly, as in a vise, squeezed both of their hands to the point of pain and, it seemed, devoured Avdotya Romanovna with his eyes, not at all embarrassed by this ... Avdotya Romanovna, although she was not shy of character, but with amazement and almost even with fear she met the eyes of her brother's friend sparkling with wild fire, and only the boundless power of attorney inspired by Nastasya's stories about this strange man kept her from attempting to run away from him and drag her mother after her. Razumikhin escorts both ladies to the rooms where they are staying. Dunya tells her mother that "you can rely on him." She “was remarkably good-looking - tall, surprisingly slender, strong, self-confident - which was expressed in every gesture of her and which, however, did not in the least detract from her movements of softness and grace. Her face was similar to her brother, but she could even be called a beauty. Her hair was dark brown, a little lighter than her brother's; eyes almost black, sparkling, proud, and at the same time sometimes, at times, unusually kind. She was pale, but not sickly pale; her face shone with freshness and health. Her mouth was a little small, while her lower lip, fresh and scarlet, protruded a little forward. Her mother looked younger than her forty-three years. “Her hair was already beginning to turn gray and thin, small radiant wrinkles had long appeared near her eyes, her cheeks were sunken and dried up from care and grief, and yet this face was beautiful. It was a portrait of Dunechkin's face, only twenty years later. Razumikhin brings Zosimov to the women, who tells them about Raskolnikov's condition. Razumikhin and Zosimov leave. Zosimov remarks: “What a delightful girl this Avdotya Romanovna is!” This causes an angry outburst from Razumikhin.

2
In the morning, Razumikhin realizes that “something unusual happened to him, that he took into himself one impression, hitherto completely unknown to him and unlike all the previous ones.” He is afraid to think about yesterday's meeting with Raskolnikov's relatives, as he was drunk and made a lot of inadmissible things. He sees Zosimov, who reproaches him for talking a lot. After that, Razumikhin goes to Bakaleev's rooms, where the ladies are staying. Pulcheria Alexandrovna asks him about her son. “I have known Rodion for a year and a half: gloomy, gloomy, arrogant and proud,” says Razumikhin, “lately (and maybe much earlier) I have been suspicious and hypochondriac. Magnanimous and kind. He does not like to express his feelings and will sooner do cruelty than the heart will express in words. Sometimes, however, he is not a hypochondriac at all, but simply cold and insensitive to the point of inhumanity, really, as if in him two opposite characters are alternately replaced. Terribly taciturn sometimes! He has no time for everything, everything interferes with him, but he himself lies, does nothing. Not mocking, and not because there was not enough wit, but as if he did not have enough time for such trifles. Doesn't listen to what they say. Never interested in what everyone is interested in at the moment. He values ​​himself terribly highly and, it seems, not without some right to do so. They talk about how Raskolnikov wanted to get married, but the wedding did not take place due to the death of the bride. Pulcheria Alexandrovna says that in the morning they received a note from Luzhin, who was supposed to meet them at the station yesterday, but sent a lackey, saying that he would come the next morning. Luzhin did not come, as promised, but sent a note in which he insists that Rodion Romanovich “was no longer present at the general meeting”, and also brings to their attention that Raskolnikov gave all the money that his mother gave him to “a girl of notorious behavior”, the daughter of a drunkard whom the carriage crushed. Razumikhin advises to do as Avdotya Romanovna decided, according to which it is necessary that Rodion come to them at eight o'clock. Together with Razumikhin, the ladies go to Raskolnikov. Climbing the stairs, they see that the door of the hostess is ajar and someone is watching from there. As soon as they are level with the door, it suddenly slams shut.

3
The women enter the room where Zosimov meets them. Raskolnikov put himself in order and looked almost healthy, “only he was very pale, absent-minded and gloomy. Outwardly, he looked like a wounded person or enduring some kind of severe physical pain: his eyebrows were shifted, his lips were compressed, his eyes were inflamed. Zosimov notes that with the arrival of his relatives, he developed “a heavy hidden determination to endure an hour or two of torture, which cannot be avoided ... He later saw how almost every word of the ensuing conversation touched some wound of his patient and stirred it; but at the same time, he was somewhat surprised at today’s ability to control himself and hide his feelings of yesterday’s monomaniac, because of the slightest word yesterday he almost fell into a rage. Zosimov tells Raskolnikov that recovery depends only on himself, that he needs to continue his studies at the university, since "work and a goal firmly set for himself" could greatly help him. Raskolnikov is trying to calm his mother, telling her that he was going to come to them, but “the dress was delayed”, since it was in the blood of one official who died and whose wife received from him all the money that his mother sent him. And he adds at the same time: “I, however, had no right, I confess, especially knowing how you yourself got this money. To help, you must first have the right to have such a right. Pulcheria Alexandrovna reports that Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova has died. Raskolnikov notes that they will still have time to "talk." “One recent terrible sensation like a dead cold passed through his soul; again, it suddenly became completely clear and understandable to him that he had just told a terrible lie, that not only would he never have time to talk enough now, but he could no longer talk about anything else, never with anyone. Zosimov leaves. Raskolnikov asks his sister if she likes Razumikhin. She replies, "Very."
Rodion recalls his love for the master's daughter, who was always sick, loved to give to the poor and dreamed of a monastery. The mother compares her son's apartment to a coffin and remarks that because of her, he has become such a melancholic. Dunya, trying to justify herself to her brother, says that she is getting married primarily for her own sake.
Raskolnikov reads Luzhin's letter, which his sister and mother show him, and notices that Luzhin "writes illiterately." Avdotya Romanovna stands up for him: "Peter Petrovich does not hide the fact that he studied with copper money, and even boasted that he had paved his own way." Dunya asks his brother to come to them in the evening. She also invites Razumikhin.

3
Sonya Marmeladova enters the room. “Now she was a modestly and even poorly dressed girl, still very young, almost like a girl, with a modest and decent manner, with a clear, but, as it were, somewhat frightened face. She was wearing a very simple house dress, on her head was an old hat of the same style; only in the hands was, in yesterday's way, an umbrella. Raskolnikov "suddenly saw that this humiliated creature had already been humiliated to such an extent that he suddenly felt sorry." The girl says that Katerina Ivanovna sent her to invite Raskolnikov to the wake. He promises to come. Pulcheria Alexandrovna and her daughter do not take their eyes off the guest, but when they leave, only Avdotya Romanovna says goodbye to her. On the street, a mother tells her daughter that she looks like her brother not in face, but in soul: "... both of you are melancholic, both gloomy and quick-tempered, both arrogant and both generous." Dunechka comforts her mother, who is worried about how the evening will go. Pulcheria Alexandrovna admits that she is afraid of Sonya.
Raskolnikov, in a conversation with Razumikhin, notices that the old woman had in pawn his silver watch, which passed to him from his father, as well as a ring that his sister gave him. He wants to take these things. Razumikhin advises to address this to the investigator, Porfiry Petrovich.
Raskolnikov escorts Sonya to the corner, takes her address and promises to come in. Left alone, she feels something new in herself. "A whole new world unknown and vaguely descended into her soul." Sonya is afraid that Raskolnikov will see her miserable room.
A man is following Sonya. “He was a man of about fifty, taller than average, portly, with broad and steep shoulders, which gave him a somewhat stooped appearance. He was smartly and comfortably dressed and looked like a portly gentleman. In his hands was a beautiful cane, with which he tapped, with each step, on the sidewalk, and his hands were in fresh gloves. His broad, cheeky face was rather pleasant, and his complexion was fresh, not Petersburg. His hair, which was still very thick, was quite blond and a little grey, and his broad, thick beard, descending like a shovel, was even lighter than his head hair. His eyes were blue and looked coldly, intently and thoughtfully; red lips." He follows her and, having found out where she lives, is glad that they are neighbors.
On the way to Porfiry Petrovich, Razumikhin is visibly agitated. Raskolnikov teases him, laughing out loud. That is how, with a laugh, he enters Porfiry Petrovich.

5
Raskolnikov offers his hand to Porfiry Petrovich, Razumikhin, waving his hand, accidentally knocks over a table with a glass of tea standing on it and, embarrassed, goes to the window. In the corner, Zametov sits on a chair, who looks at Raskolnikov "with some kind of confusion." “Porfiry Petrovich was at home, in a dressing gown, in very clean linen and worn-out shoes. He was a man of about thirty-five, below average height, plump and even with a belly, clean-shaven, without a mustache and without sideburns, with tightly cut hair on a large round head, somehow especially convexly rounded at the back of the head. His plump, round and slightly snub-nosed face was the color of a sick man, dark yellow, but rather cheerful and even mocking. It would even be good-natured, if the expression of the eyes, with a kind of liquid, watery sheen, covered by almost white eyelashes, blinking as if winking at someone, did not interfere. The look of these eyes somehow strangely did not harmonize with the whole figure, which even had something of a woman in itself, and gave it something much more serious than at first glance one could expect from it. Raskolnikov is sure that Porfiry Petrovich knows everything about him. He talks about his pledged things and hears that they were found wrapped in one piece of paper, on which his name and the day of the month when the pawnbroker received them were written in pencil. Porfiry Petrovich notices that all the pawnbrokers are already known and that he was waiting for the arrival of Raskolnikov.
There is a dispute about the nature and causes of crimes. The investigator recalls Raskolnikov's article entitled "On Crime", which appeared in the "Periodical speech" two months ago. Raskolnikov wonders how the investigator found out about the author, because she is "signed with a letter." The answer follows immediately: from the editor. Porfiry Petrovich reminds Raskolnikov that, according to his article, “the act of committing a crime is always accompanied by illness,” and all people “are divided into “ordinary” and “extraordinary.” Raskolnikov explains that, in his opinion, “everyone is not only great, but also a little out of the rut people, that is, even a little bit able to say something new” should be criminals. Any victims and crimes can be justified by the greatness of the purpose for which they were committed. An ordinary person is not able to behave like someone who "has the right." Very few extraordinary people are born, their birth must be determined by the law of nature, but it is still unknown. The ordinary one will not go to the end, he will begin to repent.
Razumikhin is horrified by what he heard, from the fact that Raskolnikov's theory allows "blood to be shed in conscience." The investigator asks Raskolnikov a question whether he himself would have decided to kill "in order to somehow help all of humanity." Raskolnikov replies that he does not consider himself either Mohammed or Napoleon. “Who in Rus' doesn’t consider himself Napoleon now?” the investigator chuckles. Raskolnikov asks if he will be interrogated officially, to which Porfiry Petrovich replies that "for the time being this is not required at all." The investigator asks Raskolnikov what time he was in the house where the murder took place, and whether he saw two dyers on the second floor. Raskolnikov, not knowing what the trap is, says that he was there at eight o'clock, but did not see the dyers. Razumikhin shouts that Raskolnikov was in the house three days before the murder, and the dyers were painting on the day of the murder. Porfiry Petrovich apologizes for mixing up the dates. Razumikhin and Raskolnikov go out into the street "gloomy and gloomy." Raskolnikov took a deep breath...

6
On the way, Raskolnikov and Razumikhin are discussing a meeting with Porfiry Petrovich. Raskolnikov says that the investigator has no facts to accuse him of the murder. Razumikhin is indignant that all this looks "offensive". Raskolnikov understands that Porfiry is "not at all so stupid." “I get a taste for other points!” he thinks. When they approach Bakaleev's rooms, Raskolnikov tells Razumikhin to go up to his sister and mother, and he hurries home, because it suddenly seemed to him that something could remain in the hole where he hid the old woman's things immediately after the murder. Finding nothing, he goes out and sees a tradesman who is talking about him with a janitor. Rodion is interested in what he needs. The tradesman leaves, and Raskolnikov runs after him, asking him the same question. He throws him in the face: “Killer!”, And then leaves, Raskolnikov follows him with his eyes. Returning to his closet, he lies for half an hour. When he hears that Razumikhin is rising to him, he pretends to be asleep, and he, having barely looked into the room, leaves. He begins to think, feeling his physical weakness: “The old woman was only a disease ... I wanted to cross as soon as possible ... I didn’t kill a person, I killed a principle! I killed the principle, but I didn’t cross over, I remained on this side ... I only managed to kill. And even then he didn’t succeed, it turns out ... "He calls himself a louse, as he talks about it, since" for a whole month, the all-good providence bothered, calling to witness that he was not taking it for his own, they say, flesh and lust, but had in mind a magnificent and pleasant goal ":" ... I myself, maybe even nastier and more disgusting than a killed louse, and had a premonition that I would say this to myself after how I'll kill you!" He comes to the conclusion that he is a "trembling creature", as he thinks about the correctness of what he did.
Raskolnikov has a dream. He is on the street where there are a lot of people. On the sidewalk, a man waves to him. In him, he recognizes the old tradesman, who turns and slowly moves away. Raskolnikov follows him. Climbing stairs that seem familiar to him. He recognizes the apartment where he saw the workers. The tradesman is obviously hiding somewhere. Raskolnikov enters the apartment. An old woman is sitting on a chair in the corner, whom he hits on the head with an ax several times. The old woman laughs. He is overcome with rage, with all his strength he beats and beats the old woman on the head, but she only laughs more than that. The apartment is full of people who are watching what is happening and do not say anything, waiting for something. He wants to scream, but wakes up. There is a man in his room. Raskolnikov asks what he needs. He introduces himself - this is Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov.

PART FOUR

1
While Raskolnikov is wondering if he is sleeping, his guest explains that he has come to meet him and asks him to help him "in one enterprise" directly related to Dunya's interest. Svidrigailov is trying to prove that it is not true that he pursued an innocent girl in his house, as he is capable of deep feelings. Raskolnikov wants the uninvited guest to leave, but he intends to speak out. Raskolnikov listens to Svidrigailov, who considers himself innocent of the death of his wife. In his youth, Svidrigailov was a cheater, reveled, made debts, for which he was sent to prison. Marfa Petrovna ransomed him for "thirty thousand pieces of silver." For seven years they lived in the village without going anywhere. On a name day, his wife gave him a document about these 30 thousand, issued in someone else's name, as well as a significant amount of money. He admits that he has already seen a ghost three times after the death of his wife, to which Raskolnikov invites him to go to the doctor. Svidrigailov suggests that “ghosts are, so to speak, bits and pieces of other worlds, their beginning. A healthy person, of course, has no need to see them, because a healthy person is the most earthly person, and therefore, he must live one local life, for completeness and order. Well, a little sick, a little disrupted the normal earthly order in the body, and immediately the possibility of another world begins to affect, and the more sick, the more contact with another world, so that when a person dies completely, he will go directly to another world. He says that Avdotya Romanovna should not get married, that he is going to propose to her himself. He offers his assistance in upsetting Dunya's wedding with Luzhin, he is ready to offer Avdotya Romanovna ten thousand rubles, which he does not need. It was precisely because his wife "concocted" this union that he quarreled with her. Marfa Petrovna also indicated in her will that three thousand rubles be transferred to Dunya. He asks Raskolnikov to arrange a meeting with his sister. After that, he leaves and runs into Razumikhin at the door.

2
On the way to Bakaleev, Razumikhin asks who Raskolnikov was with. Raskolnikov explains that this is Svidrigailov, a “very strange” person who “decided on something,” and remarks that Dunya must be protected from him. Razumikhin admits that he went to Porfiry, wanted to call him for a conversation, but nothing happened. In the corridor they run into Luzhin, so the three of them enter the room. Mother and Luzhin are talking about Svidrigailov, whom Pyotr Petrovich calls "the most depraved and perished in vices man of all such people." Luzhin says that Marfa Petrovna mentioned that her husband was acquainted with a certain Resslich, a petty pawnbroker. She lived with a deaf-mute fourteen-year-old relative who hanged herself in the attic. At the denunciation of another German woman, the girl committed suicide because Svidrigailov abused her, and only thanks to the efforts and money of Marfa Petrovna did her husband manage to escape punishment. From Luzhin's words, it becomes known that Philip's servant Svidrigailov also drove him to suicide. Dunya objects, testifies that he treated the servants well. Raskolnikov reports that Svidrigailov came to him an hour and a half ago, who wants to meet Dunya in order to make her a profitable offer, and that, according to the will of Marfa Petrovna, Dunya is entitled to three thousand rubles. Luzhin notices that his demand has not been fulfilled, and therefore he will not talk about serious matters under Raskolnikov. Dunya tells him that she intends to make a choice between Luzhin and her brother, she is afraid to make a mistake. According to Luzhin, "love for a future life partner, for a husband, must exceed love for a brother." Raskolnikov and Luzhin sort things out. Luzhin tells Duna that if he leaves now, he will never return, recalling his expenses. Raskolnikov kicks him out. Going down the stairs, Pyotr Petrovich still imagines that the matter "is still, perhaps, not completely lost and, as for some ladies, it is even" very, very" fixable."

3
“Peter Petrovich, having made his way out of insignificance, was painfully accustomed to admiring himself, highly valued his mind and abilities, and even sometimes, alone, admired his face in the mirror. But more than anything in the world, he loved and valued his money, obtained by labor and all means: they equaled him with everything that was higher than him. He wanted to marry a poor girl in order to dominate her. A beautiful and intelligent wife would help him make a career.
After Luzhin left, Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunechka rejoice at the break with Pyotr Petrovich. Razumikhin is completely delighted. Raskolnikov conveys to those present his conversation with Svidrigailov. Dunya is interested in the opinion of her brother. It seems to her that Svidrigailov needs to meet. Razumikhin's head is already spinning plans for his and Dunya's future. He says that with the money that the girl will get, and with his thousand, he will be able to do book publishing. Dunya supports Razumikhin's ideas. Raskolnikov also speaks approvingly of them.
Unable to get rid of thoughts of murder, Raskolnikov leaves, remarking at parting that perhaps this meeting of theirs will be the last. Dunya calls him "an insensitive, vicious egoist." Raskolnikov waits for Razumikhin in the corridor, and then asks him not to leave his mother and sister. For a minute they looked at each other in silence. Razumikhin remembered this moment all his life. Raskolnikov's burning and intent gaze seemed to intensify with every moment, penetrating into his soul, into his consciousness. Suddenly Razumikhin shuddered. Something strange seemed to pass between them ... Some idea slipped through, as if a hint; something terrible, ugly, and suddenly understood on both sides ... Razumikhin turned as pale as a dead man. Returning to Raskolnikov's relatives, Razumikhin reassured them as best he could.

4
Raskolnikov comes to Sonya, who lived in a wretched room, which "looked like a barn, looked like an irregular quadrangle." There was almost no furniture: a bed, a table and two wicker chairs, a chest of drawers of simple wood. "Poverty was visible." Raskolnikov apologizes for showing up so late. He came to say "one word" because they might never see each other again. Sonya says that it seemed to her that she saw her father on the street, she admits that she loves Katerina Ivanovna, who, in her opinion, is “pure”: “She believes so much that there should be justice in everything, and demands ... And even torture her, but she will not do unfair. The hostess intends to put her and her children out of the apartment. Sonya says that Katerina Ivanovna is crying, she is completely mad with grief, she keeps saying that she will go to her city, where she will open a boarding school for noble maidens, fantasizes about the future “wonderful life”. They wanted to buy shoes for the girls, but there was not enough money. Katerina Ivanovna is ill with consumption and will soon die. Raskolnikov “with a tough grin” says that if Sonya suddenly falls ill, the girls will have to follow her own path. She objects: “God will not allow such horror!” Raskolnikov rushes about the room, and then goes up to Sonya and, bending down, kisses her leg. The girl recoils from him. “I didn’t bow to you, I bowed to all human suffering,” says Raskolnikov and calls her a sinner who “killed and betrayed herself in vain.” He asks Sonya why she doesn't commit suicide. She says that her family will be lost without her. He thinks that she has three paths: "to throw herself into a ditch, to fall into a lunatic asylum, or ... or, finally, to throw herself into debauchery, which intoxicates the mind and petrifies the heart."
Sonya prays to God, and on her chest of drawers is the Gospel, which was given to her by Lizaveta, the sister of the murdered old woman. It turns out they were friends. Raskolnikov asks to read from the Gospel about the resurrection of Lazarus. Sonya, having found the right place in the book, reads, but falls silent. Raskolnikov understands that it is difficult for her “to expose everything that is her own. He realized that these feelings really, as it were, constituted a real and already long-standing, perhaps, her secret. Sonya, overpowering herself, begins to read intermittently. "She was approaching the word about the greatest and unheard of miracle, and a feeling of great triumph seized her." She thought that Raskolnikov would now hear him and believe.
Raskolnikov admits that he abandoned his relatives, offers Sonya: “Let's go together ... I came to you. We are cursed together, let's go together!" He explains to her that he needs her, that she “also crossed ... was able to cross”: “You laid hands on yourself, you ruined your life ... yours (it doesn’t matter!) You could live in spirit and mind, and end up on the Sennaya ... But you can’t stand it and if you are left alone, you will go crazy, like me. You are already like a lunatic; therefore, we should go together, on the same road! Let's go to!" Sonya doesn't know what to think. Raskolnikov says: “Later you will understand ... Freedom and power, and most importantly, power! Over all the trembling creature and over the whole anthill! He adds that tomorrow he will come to her and give the name of the killer, since he chose her. Leaves. Sonya is delirious all night. Svidrigailov overheard their entire conversation, hiding in the next room behind the door.

5
In the morning, Rodion Raskolnikov enters the bailiff's office and asks to be received by Porfiry Petrovich. “The most terrible thing for him was to meet this man again: he hated him without measure, endlessly, and was even afraid of somehow revealing himself with his hatred.” During a conversation with Porfiry Petrovich, Raskolnikov feels how anger gradually grows in him. He says that he came for interrogations, that he is in a hurry to the funeral of an official crushed by horses. He is clearly nervous, but Porfiry Petrovich, on the contrary, is calm, winking at him from time to time, smiling. Porfiry Petrovich explains to Raskolnikov why they don’t start a conversation for so long: if two people who mutually respect each other converge, then for half an hour they cannot find a topic for conversation, as they “stiffen in front of each other, sit and mutually embarrassed”. He penetrates the psychology of Raskolnikov, he understands that he is a suspect. Porfiry Petrovich indirectly blames Raskolnikov. He says that the killer is temporarily at large, but he will not run away from him anywhere: “Did you see the butterfly in front of the candle? Well, so it will all be, everything will be around me, like around a candle, spinning; freedom will not be sweet, it will begin to think, get confused, confuse itself all around, as in nets, alarm itself to death!” After another monologue by Porfiry Petrovich, Raskolnikov tells him that he is convinced that he is suspected of committing a crime, and declares: “If you have the right to legally prosecute me, then persecute me; arrest, then arrest. But I will not allow myself to laugh in my eyes and torture myself. Porfiry Petrovich tells him that he knows about how he went to rent an apartment late at night, how he rang the bell, was interested in blood. He notices that Razumikhin, who just now tried to find out something or other from him, “is too kind a person for this,” tells a “painful case” from practice, and then asks Raskolnikov if he wants to see the “surprise-sir” that he has under lock and key. Raskolnikov is ready to meet anyone.

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There is a noise behind the door. A pale man appears in the office, whose appearance was strange. “He looked straight ahead of him, but as if not seeing anyone. Determination flashed in his eyes, but at the same time a deathly pallor covered his face, as if he had been led to execution. His pale lips twitched slightly. He was still very young, dressed like a commoner, of medium height, thin, with hair cut in a circle, with thin, as if dry features. This is the arrested dyer Nikolai, who immediately confesses that he killed the old woman and her sister. Porfiry Petrovich finds out the circumstances of the crime. Remembering Raskolnikov, he says goodbye to him, hinting that they do not see each other for the last time. Raskolnikov, already at the door, ironically asks: “Will you show me a surprise?” He understands that Nikolai lied, the lie will be revealed and then they will take him. Returning home, he estimates: "I was late for the funeral, but I have time for the wake." Then the door opened, and "a figure appeared - yesterday's man from under the ground." He was among the people standing at the gate of the house where the murder took place on the day when Raskolnikov came there. The janitors did not go to the investigator, so he had to do it. He asks for forgiveness from Raskolnikov "for the slander and malice", says that he left Porfiry Petrovich's office after him.

PART FIVE

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Luzhin's vanity after the explanations with Dunechka and her mother is pretty wounded. He, looking at himself in the mirror, thinks that he will find himself a new bride. Luzhin was invited to the funeral together with his neighbor Lebezyatnikov, whom he "despised and hated even beyond measure, almost from the very day he settled, but at the same time he seemed to be somewhat afraid." Lebezyatnikov is an adherent of "progressive" ideas. Once in St. Petersburg, Petr Petrovich decides to take a closer look at this man, find out more about his views in order to have some idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe "young generations". Lebezyatnikov defines his vocation in life as a "protest" against everyone and everything. Luzhin asks him if he will go to Katerina Petrovna's wake. He replies that he won't. Luzhin remarks that after Lebeziatnikov beat Marmeladov's widow a month ago, he must be ashamed. We are talking about Sonya. According to Lebezyatnikov, Sonya's actions are a protest against the structure of society, and therefore she deserves respect. He tells Luzhin: “You simply despise her. Seeing a fact that you mistakenly consider worthy of contempt, you are already denying a human being a humane view of him. Luzhin asks to bring Sonya. Lebeziatnikov leads. Luzhin, who was counting the money that lay on the table, makes the girl sit opposite him. She cannot take her eyes off the money and is ashamed that she is looking at them. Luzhin invites her to arrange a lottery in her favor, gives her a ten-ruble bank note. Lebezyatnikov did not expect that Pyotr Petrovich was capable of such an act. But Luzhin conceived something vile, and therefore rubbed his hands in excitement. Lebezyatnikov recalled this later.

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Katerina Ivanovna spent ten rubles on the wake. Perhaps she was led by the "pride of the poor" when they spend their last savings, "just to be "not worse than others" and so that those others would not "condemn" them somehow. Amalia Ivanovna, the landlady, helped her in everything that concerned the preparations. Marmeladov's widow is nervous due to the fact that there were few people at the funeral, and only the poor at the wake. He mentions Luzhin and Lebezyatnikov in the conversation. Raskolnikov arrives at the moment when everyone is returning from the cemetery. Katerina Ivanovna is very happy about his appearance. She finds fault with Amalia Ivanovna, treats her "extremely casually." When Sonya appears, she seats her next to Raskolnikov. She conveys the apologies of Pyotr Petrovich, who intends to talk to her "about business." Katerina Ivanovna, looking around the guests, expresses her displeasure. Observing Katerina Ivanovna's irritation, Sonya foresees that the commemoration "will not end peacefully." Katerina Ivanovna begins to talk about the fact that when she has a pension, she will open a boarding school for noble maidens, paints what kind of life awaits them. When she gets tired of the wake, she quarrels with Amalia Ivanovna, who eventually demands that they move out of the apartment. Luzhin appears. Katerina Ivanovna rushes to him.

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Entering Luzhin brushes aside Katerina Ivanovna and goes to Sonya. Appears on the threshold, but does not go further into the Lebeziatnikov's room. Pyotr Petrovich turns to the landlady with a request to take note of his “subsequent conversation with Sofya Ivanovna”, whom he immediately accuses of stealing a “hundred-ruble credit note”, threatening her with strict measures. Sonya admits that she only took from him a ten-ruble credit card he gave her. They look at her with condemnation. Luzhin asks to send for the janitor, threatening that he will go to the police. Katerina Ivanovna snatches money from Sonya and throws it in Luzhin's face, and then turns her pockets inside out. A piece of paper falls out, this is a hundred-ruble bank note. The landlady yells at Sonya: “Thief! Get out of the apartment! Sonya swears she didn't. Katerina Ivanovna presses her to her chest and shouts: “You are not worth her little finger, everything, everything, everything, everything!” Luzhin expresses the hope that "the present shame" will serve as a lesson for the girl, and promises to stop the case. The views of Luzhin and Raskolnikov meet. Lebezyatnikov declares that Luzhin himself slipped this money into Sonya's pocket, calls him a slanderer. He adds that he specifically went to the Marmeladovs to warn Sonya that "a hundred rubles were put in her pocket." Raskolnikov explains that Luzhin wanted to expose Sonya as a thief in front of his family in order to quarrel with his mother and sister. In this case, Luzhin could hope for a marriage with Dunya. Lebezyatnikov drives Luzhin out of the room. Sonya is hysterical. Katerina Ivanovna pounces on Amalia Ivanovna, who refuses the Marmeladovs an apartment. Marmeladov's widow runs out into the street. Raskolnikov goes to Sonya.

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Raskolnikov intended to tell Sonya who killed Lizaveta. He informs her that the landlady is driving them out of the apartment and that Katerina Ivanovna has gone "to look for the truth." She says that since he might not have been at the wake and Lebeziatnikov happened to be there by chance, she could end up in prison. Raskolnikov struggled to say something, because he felt that "that minute had come." Sonya says with suffering: “How you suffer!” Raskolnikov says that he knows the one who killed Lizaveta, that he, his great friend, did not want to kill her. “As if she were not remembering herself, she jumped up and, wringing her hands, reached the middle of the room; but quickly returned beside him, almost touching him shoulder to shoulder. Suddenly, as if pierced, she shuddered, screamed and threw herself, without knowing why, on her knees before him. Sonya cries, says that she is ready to follow him to hard labor. Raskolnikov reports that the money that he gave to Katerina Ivanovna was sent to him by his mother, and he did not use the stolen things. He asks Sonya not to leave him. He begins to state his theory, which Sonya is trying to understand. He hates his kennel, notices that “low ceilings and cramped rooms crowd the soul and mind”, tries to prove that people have their own laws: “... whoever is strong and strong in mind and spirit is the ruler over them! Whoever dares a lot is right with them. Whoever can spit more, that is their legislator, and whoever dares the most, he is to the right of all! He needed to know about himself: “Will I be able to cross or not! Do I dare to bend down and take it or not? Am I a trembling creature, or do I have the right to…” Sonya does not understand how he can have the right to kill. He concludes that he had no right, because he is "just the same louse as everyone else", he "killed himself, not the old woman." Sonya says that he needs to “accept suffering and redeem himself with it,” and therefore Raskolnikov must go to the crossroads, bow, kiss the ground, and then bow to the whole world, on all four sides and say: “I killed!” Raskolnikov objects, he believes that he has nothing to repent of. He intends to fight them. Sonya wants to give him a cypress cross, while she herself will wear the copper one that Lizaveta left her. “Not now, Sonya. Better later, ”Raskolnikov pulls back his hand extended for the cross. They knock on the door.

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Lebezyatnikov appears and says that Katerina Ivanovna was at the head of her late husband, she was expelled. She is going to go outside and beg. Beats children, they cry. “He teaches Lenya to sing “Khutorok”, the boy to dance, Polina Mikhailovna too, tears all the dresses; makes them some kind of hats, like actors; she herself wants to carry a basin in order to beat instead of music. Sonya runs out of the room without listening to the guest. The men follow. Raskolnikov notes that Katerina Ivanovna "certainly went crazy." Having come up to his house, he turns into the gateway, thinks that, perhaps, “it’s really better in hard labor.” Dunya comes to Raskolnikov's house, having learned from Razumikhin that he is suspected of murder. She doesn't believe in it. Raskolnikov notices that Razumikhin is capable of strong feelings. They say goodbye. Raskolnikov goes outside, meets Lebezyatnikov. He learns from him that Katerina Ivanovna walks around the city, “beats the frying pan, and makes the children dance.” Raskolnikov goes with Lebezyatnikov to where a handful of people have gathered to watch the "performance" staged by Katerina Ivanovna. She was excited, shouted at the children, taught them to dance, noticing at least a little decently dressed person, she began to explain to him what the children had been brought to. Sonya asks her to come back. She does not want to, because, according to her, they have tortured Sonya enough. Raskolnikov tries to persuade Katerina Ivanovna not to do this. An official with an order gives her a three-ruble green credit card. The policeman demands that they leave. The children run away. Katerina Ivanovna runs after them, falls down, she starts bleeding from her throat. She belongs to Sonya. People come running, among them Svidrigailov. Katerina Ivanovna, before her death, says that she does not need a priest, since she has no sins, she dies. Svidrigailov undertakes to arrange a funeral, assign children to orphanages and "put on each, until adulthood, one thousand five hundred rubles in capital." She asks Raskolnikov to tell Duna how he disposed of the money that was intended for her. Svidrigailov says that he lives with Sonya through the wall and that Raskolnikov is very interested in him.

PART SIX

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“For Raskolnikov, a strange time has come: as if a fog suddenly fell in front of him and concluded him in a hopeless and difficult solitude. Remembering this time later, long after, he guessed that his consciousness sometimes seemed to grow dim and that this continued, with some intervals, until the final catastrophe. He is worried about Svidrigailov, whom he met with Sonya for two or three days. Svidrigailov, as promised, settled everything with the funeral and with the further whereabouts of the orphans, identifying them "in very decent institutions for them", and also ordered that memorial services for Katerina Ivanovna be served twice a day. After the service, Raskolnikov leaves. He wants everything to be resolved as soon as possible. He is waiting for another call from Porfiry Petrovich. At the funeral of Katerina Ivanovna, he was not, which he was only glad about. Razumikhin appears, who demands recognition from Raskolnikov: is it true that he is crazy, what explains his behavior with his mother and sister? Razumikhin further reports that he went to see him three times, that his mother fell seriously ill yesterday, that she came to him with her sister in his absence, but did not find him, and therefore decided that everything was in order with him, that he was at “her own”. Raskolnikov speaks with Razumikhin about the Dun. As for the secrets, he asks not to rush: "You will find out everything in due time, just when it is necessary."
Porfiry Petrovich comes home to Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov is waiting for him to start talking.

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Porfiry Petrovich says that he had already called on him “on the evening of the third day” and entered the room, since it was not locked, but now he came to explain himself. He admits that he relied on his character, since Raskolnikov is a nervous person, that he was the first to attack him, that he read his article, which he was plotting “in sleepless nights and in a frenzy”, and thought that “this won’t work with this man”, that he was with a search when he was lying in an unconscious state, that he set Razumikhin up to “excite” Raskolnikov, that he was waiting for him “with all his might”, that he thought a lot about the stone under which the loot is hidden "somewhere out there, in the garden." He says: “I would have given a thousand rubles at that moment, my own, just to look at you in my own eyes: how did you then walk a hundred steps with a bourgeois next to you, after he said the “murderer” to your eyes, and you didn’t dare to ask him anything, a whole hundred steps!” The investigator explains Mikolka’s behavior: “from schismatics”, “sectarian”, “true” books, he read a lot, prayed to God at night, and therefore, in his youth, he wants to “accept suffering”, he decided to “suffer for others”. In this case, “this is a fantastic thing; a gloomy, modern matter ... an incident, sir, when the human heart was clouded; when the phrase is quoted that blood "refreshes"; when all life is preached in comfort. Here are book dreams, sir, here is a theoretically irritated heart. The investigator tells Raskolnikov: “You killed” - and invites him to turn himself in, since he cannot be arrested now, because “there is no evidence yet.” Porfiry Petrovich is sure that Raskolnikov will still get better with time, that he “needs to change the air for a long time,” that he needs to suffer, convinces him: “Become the sun, everyone will see you.” To Raskolnikov’s question: “What if I run away?” - Porfiry Petrovich answers: "You cannot do without us." Leaving, he advises Raskolnikov, if he decides to commit suicide, to leave a "short but detailed note" in two lines, because it will be "nobler, sir."

3
Raskolnikov meets Svidrigailov in a tavern. “Well, but what can be in common between them? Even villainy could not be the same with them. This man was also very unpleasant, obviously extremely depraved, invariably cunning and deceitful, and could be very angry. There are stories about him. True, he was busy with the children of Katerina Ivanovna; but who knows for what and what it means? This person always has some intentions and projects. Raskolnikov says that he intends to kill Svidrigailov if he "keeps his previous intention" regarding Dunya. Svidrigailov states that Raskolnikov is interested in him "as a curious subject for observation". He admits that he ended up in St. Petersburg "on the subject of women." Raskolnikov tries to leave, but Svidrigailov stops him by mentioning his sister.

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Svidrigailov begins the story with memories of a debtor's prison. Then he talks about his life with Marfa Petrovna, who loved to complain about her husband to everyone. He initiates Raskolnikov into his relationship with his sister, who, "with all the natural disgust" for Svidrigailov, felt sorry for him, "sorry for the lost man." “And when a girl’s heart becomes sorry, then, of course, this is most dangerous for her. Here you will certainly want to “save”, and reason, and resurrect, and call for more noble goals, and revive to a new life and activity. After Svidrigailov began to harass Parasha, Avdotya Romanovna "demanded" that he leave the girl alone. He recalls a case where, thanks to flattery, he seduced a chaste lady. With Avdotya Romanovna, he did not succeed, although for her sake he was even ready to get rid of his wife. Raskolnikov has no doubt that Svidrigailov has vile intentions regarding his sister. He announces that he intends to marry. Resslich told him the story of a girl. Svidrigailov hurried to get to know her and her family. The girl, during their meeting yesterday, clasping Svidrigailov by the neck, swore that she would be a faithful wife. He is not afraid of the age difference: she is only sixteen, and he is fifty. He admits that he seduced another girl whom he met by chance, and took upon himself the cares of guardianship. Raskolnikov is at a loss, because he does not understand why Svidrigailov tells him "about such adventures." They leave the tavern. Raskolnikov is anxious and decides to follow Svidrigailov. Saying goodbye to Raskolnikov, he goes to the Haymarket.

5
Raskolnikov catches up with Svidrigailov. He says: “I didn’t talk about your case with you on purpose.” Raskolnikov decides to go to Sonya to apologize for not coming to the funeral, but Svidrigailov reports that she has gone to the owner of the orphanage. Svidrigailov hints to Raskolnikov that he overheard his conversation with Sonya. He says it's mean. To this, Svidrigailov remarks: “If you are convinced that you can’t eavesdrop at the door, and you can peel the old woman with anything, for your own pleasure, then go somewhere as soon as possible to America! Run, young man!" He promises to give money for the journey. Svidrigailov comes to his place for money. Invites Raskolnikov to ride. Raskolnikov saw how Svidrigailov got into the carriage, and after a hundred steps he paid off the cabman and ended up on the sidewalk.
Raskolnikov leaves. On the bridge, Raskolnikov runs into Dunya, but does not notice her. Svidrigailov makes signs to Duna, and she approaches him. Then they go to Sonya, as Svidrigailov promises Duna that he will show and tell something interesting there. Sony is not at home. They go to Svidrigailov, where he tells Duna that her brother killed the old woman and shows how he overheard his conversation with Sonya. Dunya says that she does not believe a single word. He tells her about the theory of Raskolnikov, who imagined himself a genius: “He suffered a lot and now suffers from the thought that he knew how to compose a theory, but to step over something without hesitation, and is not able, therefore, a person is not a genius.” Avdotya Romanovna admits that she is familiar with this theory, since Razumikhin brought her brother's article to her. She wants to talk to Sonya and learn everything from her. Svidrigailov tells Duna that saving her brother is in her hands. The girl rejects him, demands that he open the door and let her out. Then Svidrigailov, trying to intimidate Dunya, says that he can do whatever he wants with her here, and he can get away with it, since he is considered an influential person. Dunya takes out a revolver, which she had from the time when Svidrigailov in the village gave her shooting lessons. “Dunya raised the revolver and, deathly pale, with a whitened, trembling lower lip, with big black eyes sparkling like fire, looked at him, making up her mind, measuring and waiting for the first movement on his part. He had never seen her so beautiful." As soon as Svidrigailov heads towards Duna, she shoots. The bullet scratches his head. Then she pulls the trigger again - misfire. The girl throws the revolver. Svidrigailov hugs Dunya, but she again rejects him. Svidrigailov gives her the key and tells her to leave, and then he takes a revolver, a hat and leaves.

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Svidrigailov spends the whole evening in taverns and sewers. On his way home, he gets caught in the rain. All wet, he takes the money and goes to Sonya, with whom he finds Kapernaumov's four children. When the frightened children run away, he tells Sonya that he was going to leave and gives her three thousand rubles. She thanks him for the fact that she and the children are "so blessed." Svidrigailov notes that Raskolnikov "has two roads: either a bullet in the forehead, or along Vladimirka." He promises not to tell anyone. He advises to persuade Raskolnikov to confess. At parting, he bows to Razumikhin. Then he comes to his fiancee's apartment and leaves her "fifteen thousand silver rubles in different tickets", says that he needs to leave. He goes to a shabby inn, where he tells him to bring him drinks and snacks. He can't sleep. He sees in a dream that he is entering a high hall, where flowers are everywhere. In the middle of the hall there is a coffin in which lies a girl covered in flowers. "This girl was suicidal - a drowned woman." She is only fourteen years old, but "it was already a broken heart." Svidrigailov goes to the window, then walks along the hotel corridor, wants to pay for the room and leave. Bending down with a candle, he sees a crying five-year-old girl in a wet dress. She says that she broke a cup for which her "mother puffs." Svidrigailov takes the girl to his room, where, having removed the wet clothes from the baby, he puts her to bed, wants to leave, but returns to the bed to see how the girl is sleeping. He notices a feverish blush on her cheeks, like a blush from wine. It seems to him that her lips are full, black eyelashes “shudder and blink”, her eye winks, something impudent appears in her face, “this is debauchery”, her eyes “circle him with a fiery and shameless look, they call him, laugh ... ". He is waking up. He writes a few lines in a notebook, watches the flies circling over yesterday's veal, then goes out into the street and shoots himself in the presence of a fireman, saying goodbye: "If they ask you, then answer that you went, they say, to America."

7
Raskolnikov visits Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Avdotya Romanovna. The mother is alone, she tells her son that she has read his article and can judge: "... you will very soon be one of the first people, if not the very first in our scientific world." Raskolnikov asks her if she would love him if anything happened to him or if she found out something terrible about him. He confesses to his mother his filial love, says goodbye to her. “She had long understood that something terrible was happening to her son, and now some terrible minute had come for him.” Returning to his room, Raskolnikov finds Dunya in his room, tells her that he was with his mother, that they cried together, that he wanted to drown himself, but then decided that he considers himself a strong man, and therefore he “now is not afraid of shame.” Dunya says that he, going to suffering, washes away half of his crime. Raskolnikov explodes: the murder of an ugly old woman, in his opinion, is not a crime. The sister reminds: “But you shed blood!”
He asks her to always be with her mother, says that Razumikhin will help them. Raskolnikov takes out a portrait of the mistress's daughter, whom he wanted to marry, and hands it to Dunechka, adding that "she" knows all his secrets. He needs a change. They go out, looking back at each other again. Turning sharply around the corner, Raskolnikov walks, tormented by thoughts.

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In the evening, Raskolnikov comes to Sonya, who has been waiting for him all day in terrible excitement. Only shortly before the arrival of Raskolnikov, Dunya left her; the girls talked for a long time and about a lot, worrying that Raskolnikov would not decide to commit suicide. He asks Sonya for a cross. “He was not like himself. He could not even stand still for one minute, he could not concentrate on a single subject; his thoughts jumped one over the other, he began to talk; his hands were trembling slightly. Sonya gives him a cypress, "common" cross. Raskolnikov is baptized several times. Sonya throws a dradedam "family" scarf over her head. Raskolnikov stops her, he does not want her to go with him. He walks along the embankment, trying to concentrate. On Haymarket he gets into a crowd of people, remembers Sonya's words, cries, falls to the ground. He notices Sonya, who is watching him, hiding behind a wooden hut. He goes to the office, where he learns that Svidrigailov shot himself. Goes out into the street, sees Sonya. Again he goes to the office and confesses that he killed the old pawnbroker. “Ilya Petrovich opened his mouth. They fled from all sides."

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Siberia. Jail, in which Raskolnikov, a convict of the second category, has been for nine months now. A year and a half has passed since the crime. The perpetrator did not interfere with the investigation, he himself voluntarily told everything. Investigators and judges were surprised that he did not use the money, that he did not know how much money was in his wallet. "He decided to kill because of his frivolous and cowardly nature, irritated moreover by hardships and failures." Razumikhin tried to help him in every possible way, told at the trial how Raskolnikov helped a poor student from the last means, how he saved two small children in a fire. Raskolnikov received eight years. they tell Raskolnikov about this, they write letters to him on her behalf.Dunechka married Razumikhin.Among those invited to the wedding were Zosimov and Porfiry Petrovich.
Sonya followed Raskolnikov to Siberia, where she sees him at the prison gates on holidays. She informs Dunya and Razumikhin that he is “deep in himself”, “clearly understands his position”, goes to work, is indifferent to food, that he sleeps on planks, spreading felt under him, that he is indifferent to his fate, that during her visits he is rude to her, but now he is used to the fact that she comes. She does her own sewing.

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Raskolnikov “was ill for a long time; but it was not the horrors of hard labor, not work, not food, not a shaved head, not a patchwork dress that broke him ... He fell ill from wounded pride. Raskolnikov did not repent of his crime. “Live to exist? But a thousand times before he was ready to give up his existence for an idea, for hope, even for a fantasy. One existence was always not enough for him; he always wanted more." He blamed himself for confessing. He asked himself why he did not do the same as Svidrigailov. “He asked himself this question with torment and could not understand that even then, when he stood over the river, perhaps he foresaw in himself and in his convictions a deep lie. He did not understand that this presentiment could be a harbinger of a future turning point in his life, his future resurrection, his future new outlook on life. He lived in prison, not looking into anyone's eyes, as it was "disgusting and unbearable" to look at. In prison, they did not like him, even hated him. Once the convicts attacked him with shouts of "Godless! .. You must be killed!", The escort pacified them with difficulty. He did not understand why Sonya is loved here, called "mother Sofya Semyonovna."
In his delirium, it seemed to Raskolnikov that the world would perish due to illness, but “very few chosen ones” would remain, as if there were spirits that, instilling in people, make them feel smart and unshakable in truth. Infected people kill each other. Only a few people remain who must start a new kind of people and a new life, but no one sees or hears them.
When Raskolnikov recovers, he is informed that Sonya has fallen ill. He receives a note from her, where she writes that she has a mild cold and very soon she will come to see him. In the morning he goes to "work", sees the river bank, where "there was freedom." Sonya appears. Raskolnikov is crying at her feet. He understands that he loves her. Seven more years of hard labor ahead, but he feels that he has risen. The convicts now also treat him differently. He keeps the Gospel under his pillow, as he realizes that "instead of dialectics, life has come."