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Events unfold in the 60s of the nineteenth century, in St. Petersburg. One warm summer evening, former student Rodion Raskolnikov takes his last expensive thing old pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna. He plans to kill the old woman, and by this act, save the rest of the young people who depend on her from the torment.

Returning, he goes into a tavern, where he meets the drunken official Marmeladov. He tells the story of how his wife, due to poverty and consumption, sent her daughter Sonya to the panel. In the morning a letter arrived from the mother with a story about the torment of Raskolnikov's sister, who came to the landowner Svidrigailov. Mother reports that she will soon come with Dunya to Petersburg, in connection with her sister's wedding. Her fiancé Luzhin rather enjoys the beggarly position of the bride than has feelings for her.

Thinking about the sacrifices that girls make in the name of the well-being of their families, Raskolnikov doubts. But he still decides to kill. Not only the old woman died at his hands, but also her sister Lizaveta, who suddenly appeared. He hid the stolen property in a secluded place, without having time to really look at it. The experience does not leave him alone, he takes all the talk about the incident to heart. He knows that the village boy Mikolka was arrested. Rodion is almost ready to confess his deed.

Walking, he stumbles upon a man injured by the carriage. This is his recent acquaintance Marmeladov. Helping him with the last money, Raskolnikov brings him home and calls a doctor. There he meets Katerina Ivanovna and Sonya. It's easier for him for a while. But, seeing in his closet his mother and sister who came to him, he kicks them out.

Feeling lonely, he hopes for an understanding of the sinful like him, Sonya. His friend Razumikhin takes care of Rodion's relatives. He fell in love with his sister at first sight, and having learned about this, Luzhin issues an ultimatum: he or his brother. Rodion, in order to divert suspicion from himself, is looking for a meeting with Porfiry Petrovich, who was investigating the case of the old woman. During the conversation, an experienced investigator comes to the conclusion that he is facing an ideological killer. Porfiry Petrovich hopes that remorse will lead Raskolnikov to confess. Rodion is close to this. While dining in one of the rooms where Dunya and her mother settled, Luzhin's deceit is revealed. He convinced those present that Rodion gave Sonya for her vile services the money that her mother had collected for her studies. Luzhin is kicked out.

Raskolnikov seeks shelter from Sonya, but their views on life differ. He again comes to a meeting with the investigator and almost gives himself away. Luzhin again tries to regain the bride's trust by deceit, but Raskolnikov exposes him. Finding herself on the street, Katerina Ivanovna dies from bleeding. Svidrigailov offers to help Sonya and the children.

Svidrigailov, never having achieved reciprocity from Dunya, shot himself. Raskolnikov decides to confess, and he is sent into exile in Siberia. Mother, unable to bear the grief, died. Razumikhin married Dunya. Sonya came after her beloved, and patiently endures his indifference. But over time, an understanding of actions and their consequences comes to him, and he is looking for answers in the Gospel.

Summary of "Crime and Punishment" Option 2

1. About the work
2. Main characters
3. Other characters
4. Summary
5. Conclusion

PART ONE Main character novel Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov left the 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 a mother who is trying in vain to discover at least some positive traits with the man whom Dunya agreed to marry, Raskolnikov realizes that his sister is selling herself in order to help him finish his studies and get (she hopes so) in a law office that she is going to open in St. future husband . 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 in the husband of his benefactor. 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 from the inside to his coat, wraps it in paper and ties with a ribbon a fake “mortgage” - a plank 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 “gravely, not in a hurry, 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 Entrance door 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. He is overcome with a nervous chill. 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 warder. 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 this moment there is a ruckus in the office: the assistant to the quarterly lashes out with abuse at the magnificent lady sitting in the hallway, the landlady 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, calms the 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 also had his mortgage - 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. He keeps laughing and laughing, trying to make his laugh sound natural, and Razumikhin is quite sincerely angry and accidentally touches a glass of tea standing on the table. He falls. “But why break the chairs, gentlemen , the treasury is a loss!” Porfiry Petrovich shouted merrily. Here Raskolnikov notices Zametov sitting in a corner. This seems suspicious to him. The conversation is about pledged things. It seems to Raskolnikov that Porfiry Petrovich "knows". They are talking about a crime as such. Razumikhin does not agree with the socialists, who explain the crime exclusively social reasons - supposedly it is worth inventing a normal society, as 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, criminals in one way or another. 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 failures 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 ... yes, 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, sweet” - for Lizaveta, whom he killed, for his mother, for Sonya ... He understands that at some point “it will become of him” to tell everything 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 supposedly 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 man”, 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 last time see you," 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. strange, irregular shape , gloomy, poorly 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 weeps 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 kill, he explains this way: “I had to find out ... am I a louse, like everyone else, or a person ?. Am I a trembling creature, or have I the right to... The devil dragged me then, and after that he explained to me that I had no right to go there, because I'm just the same louse as everyone else!... Am I did you kill the old lady? 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 not herself: 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, followed by Raskolnikov and Lebezyatnikov. Raskolnikov goes to his closet. He scolds himself for going to Sonya and making her unhappy with his confession. Dunya arrives. Razumi-hin told her about the 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, foreboding, overwhelms him for 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, it was necessary to experience the cold of the spinal cord again ... he killed, but he considers himself an honest man , 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 prison?” “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 class. 6. If he falls in love, he must open up to Marfa Petrovna. They had quarrels, but everything worked out until Dunya appeared. Marfa Petrovna herself took her as a governess and loved her very much. Svidrigailov, as soon as he saw Avdotya Romanovna, realized that things were bad, and tried not to look at her and not 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. What up moral issues , so you need to discard them, otherwise “there was no need to meddle; 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, tells her that he must leave urgently and gives a large amount 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 always poured in the world like a waterfall ... for which they crown in the Capitol and then call the benefactor of mankind ... I myself wanted good 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 means, and there everything would be immeasurably smoothed out ... useful ... I don’t understand: why hitting people with bombs, a correct siege, is a more respectable form? …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's a war going on everyone against everyone. 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 in 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.

The novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was written in 1866. The idea of ​​the work came to the writer as early as 1859, when he was serving a sentence in hard labor. Initially, Dostoevsky was going to write the novel "Crime and Punishment" in the form of a confession, but in the process of work, the original idea gradually changed and, describing his new work to the editor of the journal "Russian Messenger" (in which the book was first published), the author characterizes the novel as "a psychological report of one works".

"Crime and Punishment" refers to the literary movement of realism, written in the genre of a philosophical and psychological polyphonic novel, since the ideas of the heroes in the work are equal to each other, and the author stands next to the characters, and not above them.

A summary of chapters and parts compiled on Crime and Punishment allows you to get acquainted with the key points of the novel, prepare for a literature lesson in grade 10 or control work. You can read the retelling of the novel presented on our website online or save it to any electronic medium.

Main characters

Rodion Raskolnikov- a poor student, a young, proud, disinterested youth. He "was remarkably good-looking, with beautiful dark eyes, dark blond, taller than average, thin and slender."

Sonya Marmeladova- the native daughter of Marmeladov, a drunkard, a former titular adviser. “A small girl, about eighteen years old, thin, but rather pretty blonde, with wonderful blue eyes» .

Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin- Dunya's fiancé, prudent, "prim, portly, with a cautious and obnoxious physiognomy," a gentleman of forty-five years.

Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov- a gambler with a controversial character, who stepped over several lives. "A man in his fifties, taller than average, portly".

Porfiry Petrovich- the bailiff of investigative affairs, who was involved in the murder of an old money-lender. "A man of about thirty-five, below average height, full and even with a paunch, clean-shaven, without a mustache and without sideburns". A smart person, "a skeptic, a cynic".

Razumikhin- student, friend of Rodion. A very intelligent young man, although sometimes rustic, “his appearance was expressive - tall, thin, always poorly shaven, black-haired. Sometimes he was rowdy and was known as a strong man.

Dunya (Avdotya Romanovna) Raskolnikova- Raskolnikov's sister, "firm, prudent, patient and generous, albeit with ardent heart" young woman. “She had dark blond hair, a little lighter than her brother; eyes almost black, sparkling, proud, and at the same time sometimes, at times, unusually kind.

Other characters

Alena Ivanovna- an old pawnbroker who was killed by Raskolnikov.

Lizaveta Ivanovna- the sister of the old pawnbroker, “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.”

Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov- Sonya's father, a drunkard, "a man already over fifty, of medium height and dense build, with gray hair and a large bald head."

Ekaterina Ivanovna Marmeladova- a woman of noble birth (from a ruined noble family), Sonya's stepmother, Marmeladov's wife. "A terribly thin woman, thin, rather tall and slender, with beautiful dark blond hair."

Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikova- mother of Rodion, a woman of forty-three years.

Zosimov- doctor, friend of Raskolnikov, 27 years old.

Zametov- The clerk at the police station.

Nastasya- the cook of the hostess, from whom Raskolnikov rented a room.

Lebezyatnikov- Luzhin's roommate.

Mykola- a dyer who confessed to the murder of an old woman

Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova- Svidrigailov's wife.

Polechka, Lenya, Kolya- children of Katerina Ivanovna.

Part one

Chapter 1

The protagonist of the novel, Rodion Raskolnikov, is in a situation bordering on poverty, he ate almost nothing for the second day and owes the owner of the apartment a decent amount for rent. The young man goes to the old woman-interest-bearer Alena Ivanovna, pondering on the way a “mysterious” case, thoughts about which have been troubling him for a long time - the hero was going to kill.

Arriving at Alena Ivanovna, Raskolnikov lays down a silver watch, while carefully examining the furnishings of her apartment. Leaving, Rodion promises to return soon to pawn a silver cigarette box.

Chapter 2

Entering the tavern, Raskolnikov meets the titular adviser Marmeladov there. Upon learning that Rodion is a student, the intoxicated interlocutor begins to talk about poverty, saying that “poverty is not a vice, it is true, poverty is a vice,” and tells Rodion about his family. His wife, Katerina Ivanovna, having three children in her arms, married him out of desperation, although she was smart and educated. But Marmeladov drinks all the money, taking the last thing out of the house. In order to somehow provide for the family, his daughter, Sonya Marmeladova, had to go to the panel.

Raskolnikov decided to take the drunken Marmeladov home, as he was already poorly on his feet. The student was struck by the beggarly situation of their housing. Katerina Ivanovna begins to scold her husband that he again drank the last money and Raskolnikov, not wanting to get involved in a quarrel, leaves, for reasons not clear to himself, leaving them a trifle on the windowsill.

Chapter 3

Raskolnikov lived in a small room with a very low ceiling: “it was a tiny cell, six paces long.” There were three old chairs in the room, a table, a large sofa in tatters, and a small table.

Rodion receives a letter from his mother Pulcheria Raskolnikova. The woman wrote that his sister Dunya was slandered by the Svidrigailov family, in whose house the girl worked as a governess. Svidrigailov showed unambiguous signs of attention to her. Upon learning of this, Marfa Petrovna, his wife, began to insult and humiliate Dunya. In addition, the forty-five-year-old court adviser Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, with a small capital, got engaged to Dunya. The mother writes that soon she and her sister will arrive in St. Petersburg, since Luzhin wants to arrange a wedding as soon as possible.

Chapter 4

Raskolnikov was greatly disturbed by his mother's letter. The young man understands that the relatives agreed to the marriage of Luzhin and Dunya, only to end poverty, but the young man is against this marriage. Raskolnikov understands that he has no right to forbid Duna to marry Luzhin. And Rodin again began to think about the thought that had tormented him for a long time (the murder of the pawnbroker).

Chapter 5

Walking around the Islands, Raskolnikov decided to have a bite of cake and vodka. The young man had not drunk for a long time, so he got drunk almost immediately and, before reaching home, fell asleep in the bushes. He had a terrible dream: an episode from childhood, in which the peasants slaughtered an old horse. Little Rodion cannot do anything, he runs up to the dead horse, kisses its muzzle and, angry, rushes at the peasant with his fists.

Waking up, Raskolnikov again thinks about the murder of the pawnbroker and doubts that he will be able to decide on it. Passing by the market on Sennaya, the young man saw the old woman's sister, Lizaveta. From Lizaveta's conversation with the merchants, Raskolnikov learns that the pawnbroker will be alone at home tomorrow at seven in the evening. The young man understands that now "everything is finally decided."

Chapter 6

Raskolnikov accidentally hears a conversation between a student and an officer that the old pawnbroker is unworthy of life, and if she is killed, then with her money one could help so many poor young people. Rodion was very excited by what he heard.

Arriving home, Raskolnikov, being in a state close to delirium, begins to prepare for the murder. The young man sewed an ax loop on the inside of the coat under the left armpit so that when the coat was put on, the ax was not noticeable. Then he took out a "pawn" hidden in the gap between the sofa and the floor - a tablet, the size of a cigarette box, wrapped in paper and tied with a ribbon, which he was going to give the old woman to divert attention. Having finished the preparations, Rodion stole an ax in the janitor and went to the old woman.

Chapter 7

Arriving at the pawnbroker, Rodion was worried that the old woman would notice his excitement and would not let him in, but she takes a “mortgage”, believing that this is a cigarette box, and tries to untie the ribbon. The young man, realizing that it is impossible to hesitate, takes out an ax and lowers it on her head with a butt, the old woman settled down, Raskolnikov beats her a second time, after which he realizes that she has already died.

Raskolnikov takes the keys from the old woman's pocket and goes to her room. As soon as he found the riches of the pawnbroker in a large packing (chest) and began to fill the pockets of his coat and trousers with them, Lizaveta suddenly returned. In confusion, the hero also kills the old woman's sister. He is terrified, but gradually the hero pulls himself together, washes away the blood from his hands, ax and boots. Raskolnikov was about to leave, but then he heard footsteps on the stairs: customers had come to the old woman. After waiting until they leave, Rodion himself quickly leaves the pawnbroker's apartment. Returning home, the young man returns the ax and, going into his room, without undressing, fell into oblivion on the bed.

Part two

Chapter 1

Raskolnikov slept until three in the afternoon. Waking up, the hero remembers what he did. He looks through all the clothes in horror, checking if there are any traces of blood on them. He immediately finds the jewels taken from the pawnbroker, which he had completely forgotten about, and hides them in the corner of the room, in a hole under the wallpaper.

Nastasya comes to Rodion. She brought him a summons from the quarterly: the hero had to appear at the police office. Rodion is nervous, but at the station it turns out that he is only required to write a receipt with the obligation to pay the debt to the landlady.

Already about to leave the station, Rodion accidentally hears the conversation of the police about the murder of Alena Ivanovna and faints. Everyone decides that Raskolnikov is ill and is allowed to go home.

Chapter 2

Fearing a search, Rodion hides the old woman's valuables (a purse with money and jewelry) under a stone in a deserted courtyard surrounded by blank walls.

Chapter 3

Returning home, Raskolnikov wandered for several days, and when he woke up, he saw Razumikhin and Nastasya next to him. A young man receives a money transfer from his mother, who sent money to pay for housing. Dmitry tells his friend that while he was ill, the police officer Zametov came to Rodion several times and asked about his things.

Chapter 4

Another comrade comes to Raskolnikov - a medical student Zosimov. He starts a conversation about the murder of Alena Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta, saying that many are suspected of the crime, including the dyer Mikola, but the police do not yet have reliable evidence.

Chapter 5

Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin comes to Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov reproaches the man that he is going to marry Dunya only so that the girl will be grateful to the end of her life for delivering her family from poverty. Luzhin tries to deny it. Angry Raskolnikov kicks him out.

Following him, Raskolnikov's friends also leave. Razumikhin worries about his friend, believing that “he has something on his mind! Something immovable, weighing.

Chapter 6

Having accidentally entered the Crystal Palace tavern, Raskolnikov meets Zametov there. Discussing with him the case of the murder of the old woman, Rodion expresses his opinion on how he would act in the place of the killer. The student asks what Zametov would do if he was the killer and almost directly says that it was he who killed the old woman. Zametov decides that Rodion is crazy and does not believe in his guilt.

Walking around the city, Raskolnikov decides to drown himself, but, having changed his mind, he goes half-delirious to the house of the murdered old pawnbroker. There is a renovation going on and the student is talking to the workers about the crime that has happened, everyone thinks he is crazy.

Chapter 7

On the way to Razumikhin, Raskolnikov sees a crowd gathered around the accidentally knocked down, completely drunk Marmeladov. The victim was taken home and is in critical condition.
Before his death, Marmeladov asks Sonya for forgiveness and dies in his daughter's arms. Raskolnikov gives all his money to Marmeladov's funeral.

Rodion feels that he is recovering and goes to visit Razumikhin. Dmitry accompanies him home. Approaching the house, Raskolnikov, students see light in his windows. When the friends went up to the room, it turned out that Rodion's mother and sister had arrived. Seeing loved ones, Raskolnikov fainted.

Part Three

Chapter 1

Having come to his senses, Rodion asks his relatives not to worry. Talking with his sister about Luzhin, Raskolnikov demands that the girl refuse him. Pulcheria Alexandrovna wants to stay to look after her son, but Razumikhin persuades the women to return to the hotel.

Razumikhin really liked Dunya, he was attracted by her beauty: in her appearance, strength and self-confidence were combined with softness and grace.

Chapter 2

In the morning, Razumikhin visits Raskolnikov's mother and sister. Discussing Luzhin, Pulcheria Alexandrovna shares with Dmitry that in the morning they received a letter from Pyotr Petrovich. Luzhin writes that he wants to visit them, but asks that Rodion not be present during their meeting. Mother and Dunya go to Raskolnikov.

Chapter 3

Raskolnikov is feeling better. A student tells his mother and sister about giving all his money to a poor family's funeral yesterday. Raskolnikov notices that his relatives are afraid of him.
There is a conversation about Luzhin. Rodion is unpleasant that Pyotr Petrovich does not show proper attention to the bride. The young man is told about the letter of Pyotr Petrovich, he is ready to do as his relatives consider right. Dunya believes that Rodion must certainly be present during Luzhin's visit.

Chapter 4

Sonya came to Raskolnikov with an invitation to Marmeladov's funeral. Despite the fact that the girl’s reputation does not allow her to communicate on an equal footing with Rodion’s mother and sister, the young man introduces her to her relatives. Leaving, Dunya bowed to Sonya, which greatly embarrassed the girl.

When Sonya was walking home, some stranger began to pursue her, who turned out to be her neighbor (later on in the story it becomes clear that it was Svidrigailov).

Chapter 5

Raskolnikov and Razumikhin go to Porfiry, as Rodion asked a friend to introduce him to the investigator. Raskolnikov turns to Porfiry with the question of how to claim his right to the things that he pledged to the old woman. The investigator says that he needs to file an announcement with the police, and that his things have not disappeared, as he remembers them among those seized by the investigation.

Discussing the murder of the pawnbroker with Porfiry, the young man realizes that he is also suspected. Porfiry recalls Raskolnikov's article. In it, Rodion sets out his own theory that people are divided into “ordinary” (the so-called “material”) and “extraordinary” (talented, able to say a “new word”)”: “ordinary people must live in obedience and have no right to cross law". “And the extraordinary have the right to commit all sorts of crimes and break the law in every possible way, in fact, because they are extraordinary.” Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he considers himself such an “extraordinary” person and if he is capable of killing or robbing, Raskolnikov replies that “it can very well be”.

Clarifying the details of the case, the investigator asks Raskolnikov if he saw, for example, during last visit to the pawnbroker, dyers. Delaying with the answer, the young man says that he did not see. Razumikhin is immediately responsible for a friend who was with the old woman three days before the murder, when the dyers were not there yet, because they were working on the day of the murder. The students leave Porfiry.

Chapter 6

A stranger was waiting near Rodion's house, who called Rodion a murderer and, not wanting to explain himself, leaves.

At home, Raskolnikov again began to suffer from a fever. The young man dreamed of this stranger, who beckoned him to follow him to the apartment of the old money-lender. Rodion hit Alena Ivanovna on the head with an ax, but she laughs. The student tries to run away, but sees a crowd of people judging him around. Rodion wakes up.

Svidrigailov comes to Raskolnikov.

Part four

Chapter 1

Raskolnikov is not happy about the arrival of Svidrigailov, since Dunya's reputation has seriously deteriorated because of him. Arkady Ivanovich expresses the opinion that he and Rodion are very similar: "one field of berries." Svidrigailov is trying to persuade Raskolnikov to arrange a meeting with Dunya, since his wife left the girl three thousand, and he himself would like to give Dunya ten thousand for all the trouble caused to her. Rodion refuses to arrange their meeting.

Chapters 2-3

In the evening, Raskolnikov and Razumikhin visit Rodion's mother and sister. Luzhin is outraged that the women did not take into account his request, and does not want to discuss the details of the wedding with Raskolnikov. Luzhin reminds Duna of the distress her family is in, reproaching the girl for not realizing her happiness. Dunya says that she cannot choose between her brother and her fiancé. Luzhin gets angry, they quarrel, and the girl asks Pyotr Petrovich to leave.

Chapter 4

Raskolnikov comes to Sonya. "Sonya's room looked like a barn, looked like a very irregular quadrangle, and this gave it something ugly." During the conversation, the young man asks what will happen to the girl now, because she now has an almost crazy mother, brother and sister. Sonya says that she cannot leave them, because without her they will simply die of hunger. Raskolnikov bows at Sonya's feet, the girl thinks that the young man is insane, but Rodion explains his act: “I didn’t bow to you, I bowed to all human suffering.”

Rodion draws attention to the New Testament lying on the table. Raskolnikov asks to read to him a chapter on the resurrection of Lazarus: “The cigarette end has long been extinguished in a crooked candlestick, dimly illuminating in this beggarly room the murderer and the harlot, who strangely come together to read the eternal book.” Leaving, Rodion promises to come the next day and tell Sonya who killed Lizaveta.

Their entire conversation was heard by Svidrigailov, who was in the next room.

Chapter 5

The next day, Raskolnikov comes to Porfiry Petrovich with a request to return his things to him. The investigator again tries to check the young man. Unable to stand it, Rodion, very nervous, asks Porfiry to finally find him guilty or not guilty of the murder of the old woman. However, the investigator avoids answering, saying that there is a surprise in the next room, but does not tell the young man which one.

Chapter 6

Unexpectedly for Raskolnikov and Porfiry, the dyer Mikola is brought in, who, in front of everyone, confesses to the murder of Alena Ivanovna. Raskolnikov returns home and on the threshold of his apartment meets that mysterious tradesman who called him a murderer. The man apologizes for his words: as it turned out, it was he who was the “surprise” prepared by Porfiry and now repented of his mistake. Rodion feels calmer.

Part five

Chapter 1

Luzhin believes that only Raskolnikov is to blame for their quarrel with Dunya. Pyotr Petrovich thinks that in vain he did not give Raskolnikov money before the wedding: this would solve many problems. Wanting to take revenge on Rodion, Luzhin asks his roommate Lebezyatnikov, who is well acquainted with Sonya, to call the girl to him. Pyotr Petrovich apologizes to Sonya that he will not be able to attend the funeral (although he was invited), and gives her ten rubles. Lebezyatnikov notices that Luzhin is up to something, but does not yet understand what it is.

Chapter 2

Katerina Ivanovna arranged a good funeral for her husband, but many of those invited did not come. Raskolnikov was also present. Ekaterina Ivanovna begins to quarrel with the owner of the apartment, Amalia Ivanovna, because she invited just anyone, and not “better people and precisely the acquaintances of the deceased”. During their quarrel, Pyotr Petrovich arrives.

Chapter 3

Luzhin reports that Sonya stole a hundred rubles from him and his neighbor Lebezyatnikov is a witness to this. The girl is at first lost, but quickly begins to deny her guilt and gives Pyotr Petrovich his ten rubles. Not believing in the guilt of the girl, Katerina Ivanovna begins to turn out her daughter's pockets in front of everyone, and a hundred-ruble bill falls out of there. Lebezyatnikov understands that Luzhin got him into an awkward situation and tells those present that he remembered how Pyotr Petrovich himself slipped Sonya money. Raskolnikov defends Sonya. Luzhin screams and gets angry, promising to call the police. Amalia Ivanovna kicks Katerina Ivanovna out of the apartment with her children.

Chapter 4

Raskolnikov goes to Sonya, thinking about whether to tell the girl who killed Lizaveta. The young man understands that he must tell everything. Tormented, Rodion tells the girl that he knows the killer and that he killed Lizaveta by accident. Sonya understands everything and, sympathizing with Raskolnikov, says that there is no one more unhappy than him "now in the whole world." She is ready to follow him even to hard labor. Sonya asks Rodion why he went to kill, even if he didn’t take the loot, to which the young man replies that he wanted to become Napoleon: “I wanted to dare and killed ... I just wanted to dare, Sonya, that’s the whole reason!” . “I had to find out something else. Will I be able to cross or not! Am I a trembling creature, or do I have a right?
Sonya says that he needs to go and confess what he has done, then God will forgive him and "send life again."

Chapter 5

Lebezyatnikov comes to Sonya and says that Katerina Ivanovna has gone mad: the woman made the children beg, walks down the street, beats the frying pan and makes the children sing and dance. They help Katerina Ivanovna to be taken to Sonya's room, where the woman dies.

Svidrigailov approached Rodion, who was at Sonya's. Arkady Ivanovich says that he will pay for the funeral of Katerina Ivanovna, arrange children in orphanages and take care of Sonya's fate, asking her to tell Duna that she will spend the ten thousand that she wanted to give her. When asked by Rodion why Arkady Ivanovich became so generous, Svidrigailov replies that he heard all their conversations with Sonya through the wall.

Part six

Chapters 1-2

Funeral of Katerina Ivanovna. Razumikhin tells Rodion that Pulcheria Alexandrovna has fallen ill.

Porfiry Petrovich comes to Raskolnikov. The investigator states that he suspects Rodion of the murder. He advises the young man to come to the police station with a confession, giving two days to think. However, there is no evidence against Raskolnikov, and he has not yet confessed to the murder.

Chapters 3-4

Raskolnikov understands that he needs to talk with Svidrigailov: "this man hid some kind of power over him." Rodion meets Arkady Ivanovich in a tavern. Svidrigailov tells the young man about his relationship with his late wife and that he really was very much in love with Dunya, but now he has a bride.

Chapter 5

Svidrigailov leaves the tavern, after which, secretly from Raskolnikov, he meets with Dunya. Arkady Ivanovich insists that the girl come to his apartment. Svidrigailov tells Dunya about the overheard conversation between Sonya and Rodion. The man promises to save Raskolnikov in exchange for the favor and love of Dunya. The girl wants to leave, but the door is locked. Dunya takes out a hidden revolver, shoots the man several times, but misses, and asks to be released. Svidrigailov gives Dunya the key. The girl drops her weapon and leaves.

Chapter 6

Svidrigailov spends the whole evening in taverns. Returning home, the man went to Sonya. Arkady Ivanovich tells her that he may go to America. The girl thanks him for arranging the funeral and helping the orphans. The man gives her three thousand rubles so that she can live a normal life. The girl refuses at first, but Svidrigailov says that she knows that she is ready to follow Rodion to hard labor and she will definitely need the money.

Svidrigailov wanders into the wilderness of the city, where he stays at a hotel. At night, he dreams of a teenage girl who died long ago because of him, drowning herself after a man broke her heart. Going outside at dawn, Svidrigailov shot himself in the head with Dunya's revolver.

Chapter 7

Raskolnikov says goodbye to his sister and mother. The young man tells his relatives that he is going to confess to the murder of the old woman, promises to start a new life. Rodion regrets that he could not cross the cherished threshold of his own theory and his conscience.

Chapter 8

Raskolnikov goes to Sonya. The girl puts on him a cypress pectoral cross, advising him to go to the crossroads, kiss the ground and say out loud "I'm a killer." Rodion does as Sonya said, after which he goes to the police station and confesses to the murder of the old pawnbroker and her sister. In the same place, the young man learns about Svidrigailov's suicide.

Epilogue

Chapter 1

Rodion is sentenced to eight years in hard labor in Siberia. Pulcheria Alexandrovna fell ill at the beginning of the process (her illness was nervous, more like insanity) and Dunya and Razumikhin took her away from St. Petersburg. The woman invents a story that Raskolnikov left and lives on this fiction.

Sonya leaves for a batch of prisoners, in which Raskolnikov was sent to hard labor. Dunya and Razumikhin got married, both plan to move to Siberia in five years. After some time, Pulcheria Alexandrovna dies of longing for her son. Sonya regularly writes to Rodion's relatives about his life in hard labor.

Chapter 2

In hard labor, Rodion could not find common language with other prisoners: everyone did not like him and avoided him, considering him an atheist. The young man reflects on his fate, he is ashamed that he ruined his life so ineptly and stupidly. Svidrigailov, who managed to commit suicide, seems to be a young man stronger in spirit than himself.

Sonya, who came to Rodion, fell in love with all the prisoners, at a meeting they took off their hats in front of her. The girl gave them money and things from relatives.

Raskolnikov fell ill, is in the hospital, recovering heavily and slowly. Sonya visited him regularly, and one day Rodion, crying, threw himself at her feet and began to hug the girl's knees. Sonya was frightened at first, but then she realized "that he loves, loves her endlessly." “They were resurrected by love, the heart of one included endless sources of life for the heart of the other”

Conclusion

In the novel "Crime and Punishment" Dostoevsky examines the issues of human morality, virtue and the human right to kill one's neighbor. Using the example of the protagonist, the author shows that any crime is impossible without punishment - the student Raskolnikov, who, wishing to become as great a personality as his idol Napoleon, kills the old pawnbroker, but cannot bear the moral torment after the deed and himself confesses his fault. In the novel, Dostoevsky emphasizes that even the greatest goals and ideas are not worth a human life.

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Raskolnikov woke up when it was already completely light outside. For some time he lay, listening to the screams coming from the street, then he felt that his whole body was beating with a nervous chill. Opening the door and making sure that it was quiet around him, he began to examine himself and everything around him with surprise. I discovered that yesterday, having come home, he did not close the door and went to bed without undressing. Rushing to the window, he began to carefully examine the clothes: were there any traces of blood on them? There were no traces of blood anywhere, only at the bottom of the pantaloons, in the place where they broke off and hung fringed.

Rodion quickly cut off the fringe and remembered that the purse and the things that he had taken from the old woman were still in his pockets. He began to pull them out and convulsively shove them under the wallpaper torn from the wall. Exhausted, he lay down on the sofa, covered himself with an old coat and forgot himself again. But five minutes later he jumped up again, remembering that he had not destroyed an important piece of evidence - a loop for an ax. Having torn it to pieces, he hid it under the pillow in linen and then suddenly noticed that in the middle of the room there were scraps of fringe, which he had torn off from his trousers. Then Raskolnikov began to feverishly rush around the room, found that there were blood stains on his clothes, which he did not immediately see, noticed that one of his socks was soaked in blood. Having collected all the clothes in a heap, he stood in the middle of the room and thought what to do with it. Now throwing himself on the sofa, then standing up abruptly, he did not notice how he again fell into oblivion.

This time he was awakened by a loud knock on the door. Nastasya knocked and brought the janitor to hand Raskolnikov a summons from the police. The young man opened the door without getting out of bed (so small were the dimensions of the room). Nastasya, noticing that Raskolnikov was ill, suggested that he not go to the police station and asked what he was holding in his hands. In his right hand, Raskolnikov had pieces of fringe cut off from his pantaloons, a sock and a flap from a torn trouser pocket, with which he fell asleep. Rodion quickly hid things under his overcoat and carefully looking at Nastasya, he began to think why he was being called to the police. When Nastasya and the janitor left, he printed out the agenda and began to read. It said that today at half past ten he was to appear in the office of the quarter overseer. Hastily dressing, Rodion did not stop thinking why the police might need him. His head was aching and spinning, his legs were trembling with fear.

Going outside, Raskolnikov plunged into the unbearable heat.

Having reached the turn into yesterday's street, he glanced with excruciating anxiety at that house... and immediately averted his eyes.

“If they ask, maybe I’ll tell you,” he thought, going up to the office ... Entering under the gate, he saw a staircase to the right, along which a peasant was descending with a book in his hands: “the janitor, then; this means that there is an office here, ”and he began to go upstairs at random. I didn't want to ask anyone about anything.

"I'll go in, get on my knees and tell you everything..." he thought as he entered the fourth floor.

The stairs were narrow, steep, and full of slops. All the kitchens of all apartments on all four floors opened onto this staircase and stood like that for almost the whole day. That's why there was a terrible smell. Up and down came and went janitors with books under their arms, walkers and various people of both sexes - visitors. The door to the office itself was also wide open. He entered and stopped in the hallway. Here everyone stood and waited for some men. Here, too, the stuffiness was extreme, and, besides, the fresh, still uncured paint on the rotten drying oil of the newly painted rooms hit one's nose to the point of nausea. After waiting a little, he decided to move further forward, to the next ...

He entered this room (fourth in order), cramped and crowded with the public - the people, somewhat cleaner dressed than in those rooms ... He took a breath more freely. “Probably not!” Little by little he began to cheer up, he admonished himself with all his strength to cheer up and come to his senses.

“Some stupidity, some smallest indiscretion, and I can give myself away! H'm... it's a pity there's no air here," he added, "it's stuffy... My head is spinning even more... and my mind too..."

The clerk was a very young man, about twenty-two years old, with a swarthy and agile physiognomy, who seemed older than his years, dressed in fashion and veil, with a parting on the back of his head, combed and unwashed, with many rings and rings on white brushed fingers and gold chains on vest. With one foreigner who was here, he even said two words in French, and very satisfactorily.

The lieutenant, an assistant to the quarter overseer, with a reddish mustache sticking out horizontally in both directions and with extremely small features, nothing, however, special, except for some impudence, not expressing, sideways and partly indignantly looked at Raskolnikov: his suit was too bad , and, despite all the humiliation, the posture was still not according to the suit; Raskolnikov, through negligence, looked at him too directly and for a long time, so that he was even offended.

What do you need? he shouted, probably surprised that such a ragamuffin did not even think of shying away from his lightning-fast gaze.

They demanded ... according to the agenda ... - Raskolnikov answered somehow.

This is in the case of recovering money from them, from a student, - the clerk hurried, looking up from the paper. - Here, sir! - and he threw a notebook to Raskolnikov, indicating the place in it, - read it!

"Money? What money? - thought Raskolnikov, - but ... therefore, it’s probably not right! And he shuddered with joy. He felt suddenly terribly, unspeakably light. Everything fell off my shoulders.

At that moment, a scandal broke out in the office: the assistant to the quarterly with a curse attacked the magnificent lady sitting in the hallway, the landlady of the brothel Louise Ivanovna. Raskolnikov, in hysterical animation, began to tell the clerk about his life, relatives, that he was going to marry the daughter of the landlady, but she died of typhus. His story was interrupted, with an order to write an obligation that he would pay the debt.

Raskolnikov handed over the pen, but instead of getting up and leaving, he put both elbows on the table and squeezed his head in his hands. Like a nail was driven into his crown. A strange thought suddenly came to him: get up now, go up to Nikodim Fomich and tell him everything of yesterday, everything before latest details, then go with them to the apartment and point them to the things in the corner, in the hole. The urge was so strong that he had already risen from his seat to perform. "Won't you think about it for a minute? - flashed through his head. “No, it’s better not to think, and off your shoulders!” But suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks: Nikodim Fomich spoke with warmth to Ilya Petrovich, and the words reached him:

It can't be, both will be released. First, everything contradicts; judge: why should they call the janitor, if it were their business? Bring on yourself, right? Al for the trick? No, that would be too clever! And, finally, the student Pestryakov was seen at the very gates by both porters and the petty-bourgeois woman, at the very moment he entered: he was walking with three friends and parted with them at the very gates and asked about living with the porters, while still with his friends. Well, will such a person ask about residence, if he went with such an intention? And Koch, before going in to the old woman's, sat downstairs at the silversmith's for half an hour, and at exactly a quarter to eight he went upstairs from him to the old woman's. Now imagine...

Nikodim Fomich animatedly told Ilya Petrovich about the murder of the old woman and Lizaveta, that on the evening when the murder took place, the student Pestryakov was seen at the gate of the house, who asked the janitors where the old woman lived, and Koch, who, before go to the old woman, spent half an hour at the silversmith. Raskolnikov wanted to leave, but when he got up, he fainted.

When he woke up, he saw that he was sitting on a chair, that some man was supporting him on the right, that another man was standing on the left, with a yellow glass filled with yellow water, and that Nikodim Fomich was standing in front of him and looking intently at him; he got up from his chair.

What is it, are you sick? asked Nikodim Fomich rather sharply.

Even as they signed, they barely drew with a pen, - the clerk remarked, sitting down in his place and starting again at the papers.

How long have you been sick? Ilya Petrovich shouted from his seat, also sorting through the papers. He, of course, also examined the patient when he was in a swoon, but immediately withdrew when he woke up.

Since yesterday ... - Raskolnikov muttered in response.

Did you leave the yard yesterday?

Went out.

Sick?

Sick.

At what time?

At eight o'clock in the evening.

Where, may I ask?

On the street.

Briefly and clearly.

Raskolnikov answered sharply, abruptly, all pale as a handkerchief and not lowering his black, inflamed eyes before the gaze of Ilya Petrovich.

He can hardly stand on his feet, and you ... - Nikodim Fomich noticed.

Nothing! Ilya Petrovich said in a peculiar way.

Nikodim Fomich wanted to add something else, but, glancing at the clerk, who was also looking very intently at him, fell silent. Everyone suddenly went silent. It was strange.

Well, well, well, sir, - concluded Ilya Petrovich, - we are not detaining you.

Raskolnikov left. He could still hear how, upon his exit, a lively conversation began, in which the questioning voice of Nikodim Fomich was heard most audibly ... In the street he completely woke up.

“Search, search, search now! he repeated to himself, hurrying to get there; - robbers! suspect!" The old fear again gripped him all over, from head to toe...

Entering his room, Raskolnikov looked around, trying to figure out if there had been a search. None of the things were touched, so no one came in. He went to the corner, put his hand under the wallpaper and frantically began to pull things out, shoving them into his pockets. Taking along with things and a wallet, he left the room, leaving it wide open.

Even at night, when he was delirious, Raskolnikov decided to throw all the things stolen from the old woman into the ditch, into the water, and now he was going to carry out his plan. He felt exhausted and tired, but he thought clearly and walked firmly. However, it was not easy to throw things away - there were people around. For half an hour he walked along the embankment of the Catherine Canal, but could not "fulfill his intention" ... Finally, the thought came to him that it was better to throw things into the Neva - there are fewer people there, and you can make everything more inconspicuous. He headed towards the Neva, but on the way he thought that it would be better to go to the Islands and hide things in the forest under a stone.

But he was not destined to get to the Islands, but something else happened: going out from V ... th Avenue to the square, he suddenly saw an entrance to the courtyard to the left, furnished with completely blank walls ...

"Here's where to throw up and go!" he suddenly thought. Not noticing anyone in the yard, he stepped through the gate and just saw, right next to the gate, a trough fitted to the fence.

“Here everything is so at once and throw it somewhere in a pile and leave!”

He bent down to the stone, grabbed the top of it firmly with both hands, gathered all his strength and turned the stone over. A small depression formed under the stone; he immediately began throwing everything from his pocket at him. The purse hit the very top, and yet there was still room in the recess. Then he grabbed the stone again, with one turn turned it over to its former side, and it just fell into its original place, only a little, a little seemed higher. But he scooped up the earth and pressed down on the edges with his foot. Nothing was noticeable.

Having got rid of things, Raskolnikov went to the square. On the way, he was seized with a state of joy: things were securely hidden, all evidence was eliminated. Crossing the square, he laughed nervously, but when he stepped onto the boulevard he stopped laughing and remembered the girl he had met here three days before. Thinking about her and about the perfect murder, Rodion came to the conclusion that he was exhausted and seriously ill, that he would soon recover and stop torturing himself. Raskolnikov himself did not notice how he came to Razumikhin's house.

He went up to Razumikhin on the fifth floor.

He was at home, in his closet, and at that moment he was studying, writing, and he himself opened it. For four months they did not see each other. Razumikhin was sitting in his dressing gown, tattered to tatters, in slippers on his bare feet, disheveled, unshaven and unwashed. Surprise showed on his face.

What you? he shouted, examining his comrade from head to toe; then he paused and whistled.

Is it really that bad? Yes, brother, you outdid our brother, ”he added, looking at Raskolnikov’s rags. "Sit down, you're tired!" - and when he collapsed on an oilcloth Turkish sofa, which was even worse than his own, Razumikhin suddenly saw that his guest was ill.

Yes, you are seriously ill, do you know that? - He began to feel his pulse; Raskolnikov snatched his hand away.

Don't," he said, "I've come... that's what: I don't have any lessons... I wanted to... however, I don't need lessons at all...

Do you know what? After all, you are delirious! - observed Razumikhin, who was watching him intently.

No, I'm not delusional ... - Raskolnikov got up from the sofa ...

Goodbye! - he said suddenly and went to the door.

Wait, wait, you weirdo!

Don't! .. - he repeated, again pulling his hand out.

So what the hell are you doing after that! Are you crazy, right? It's... almost embarrassing. I won't let it go.

Well, listen: I came to you because, apart from you, I don’t know anyone who would help ... to start ... because you are kinder, that is, smarter, and you can discuss them ... And now I see that I don’t need anything, you hear, nothing at all ... no one’s services and participation ... I myself ... alone ... Well, that’s enough! Leave me alone!

Razumikhin offered Raskolnikov to translate the German text and gave him three rubles. Rodion took the papers and, without saying a word, went out. But then he returned, went up to Razumikhin and put the sheets and three rubles on the table, after which, without saying a word, he again left.

Yes, you have delirium tremens, eh! roared Razumikhin, furious at last. - Why are you playing comedy! Even confused me... Why did you come after that, damn it?

No need ... translations ... - Raskolnikov muttered, already going down the stairs.

So what the hell do you want? Razumikhin shouted from above. He silently continued to descend.

Hey, you! Where do you live?

There was no answer.

Well, to hell with you! ..

Going out into the street, Raskolnikov quickly walked towards the Nikolaevsky bridge. He woke up from a whip - the driver of one of the carriages hit him on the back with a whip for almost falling under a horse. When he stood at the fence, looking with hatred after the departing carriage, an elderly merchant's wife, next to whom was a girl with an umbrella, thrust two kopecks into his hand, probably mistaking it for a beggar. Clutching the money in his hand, he walked towards the Neva, in the direction of the palace. Stopping by the water, he admired the panorama that opened before his eyes, which he always admired when he went to the university.

The sky was without the slightest cloud, and the water was almost blue, which is so rare on the Neva. The dome of the cathedral, which from no point is better defined than looking at it from here, from the bridge, not reaching twenty paces to the chapel, shone like that, and even each of its decorations could be clearly seen through the clean air ...

An inexplicable chill always blew over him from this splendid panorama; this sumptuous picture was full of mute and deaf spirit for him... Each time he marveled at his gloomy and enigmatic impression and put off the solution of it, not trusting himself, to the future...

Having made one involuntary movement with his hand, he suddenly felt a two-kopeck piece clutched in his fist. He opened his hand, looked intently at the coin, swung it and threw it into the water; then turned and went home. It seemed to him that he, as if with scissors, cut himself off from everyone and everything at that moment ...

He came to his place already in the evening, so he had only been walking for six hours. Where and how he went back, he did not remember anything. Undressing and trembling all over like a driven horse, he lay down on the sofa, pulled on his overcoat, and immediately forgot himself...

Raskolnikov's feverish state was accompanied by delirium. He heard the terrible screams of the hostess, who was beaten by the assistant quarter warden. He was terrified that they would come for him now. Nastasya, the cook who appeared, pitying and feeding Rodion, said that he had imagined all this. Raskolnikov alternately regained consciousness, then lost it again. Waking up on the fourth day, he saw that Razumikhin and Nastasya were sitting near his bed.

Razumikhin told Raskolnikov that he and Nastasya looked after him while he was unconscious. Twice he brought Zosimov (the doctor) to the patient, who examined the patient and said that there was nothing serious in his condition. There was also an artel worker in the room, who handed Raskolnikov a transfer from his mother - thirty-five rubles. Nastasya brought soup to the patient, and after a while two bottles of beer from the hostess herself. Razumikhin told Raskolnikov that during his illness he became close friends with his mistress.

You see, Rodya, a whole story happened here without you. When you ran away from me in such a fraudulent way and did not tell the apartment, I suddenly took such an evil that I decided to find you and execute you. Started the same day. Already I walked, walked, asked, asked! I have forgotten this present apartment; however, I never remembered her, because I didn’t know ... I got angry and went, was not there, the next day to the address desk, and imagine: in two minutes they found you for me. You are registered there.

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As soon as I came here, I immediately got acquainted with all your affairs; with everyone, brother, with everyone, I know everything; so she saw: I met Nikodim Fomich, and Ilya Petrovich was shown to me, and with the janitor, and with Mr. Zametov, Alexander Grigoryevich, the clerk in the local office, and finally with Pashenka ... I, brother, did not expect so that she was so ... avenant ... huh? How do you think?

Raskolnikov was silent, although not for a moment did he take his worried gaze off him, and now he stubbornly continued to look at him ...

Yes ... - Raskolnikov gritted, looking away, but realizing that it was more profitable to keep the conversation going.

Is not it? Razumikhin exclaimed, apparently delighted that he was answered, “but she’s not smart, is she?” Totally, completely unexpected character! I, brother, am somewhat at a loss, I assure you... Forty will be faithful to her. She says - thirty-six and has every right to do so. However, I swear to you that I judge it more intellectually, according to metaphysics alone; here, brother, we have such an emblem that your algebra! I don't understand anything! Well, yes, all this is nonsense, but only she, seeing that you are no longer a student, you have lost your lessons and your costume, and that after the death of the young lady there is nothing for her to keep you on a related leg, she suddenly became frightened; and since you, for your part, hid in a corner and did not support anything of the former, she took it into her head to drive you out of the apartment. And for a long time she nourished this intention, but the bills became a pity. Besides, you yourself assured that mother would pay ...

I said it out of my meanness ... My mother herself almost asks for alms ... but I lied so that they would keep me in the apartment and ... feed me, ”Raskolnikov said loudly and distinctly.

Razumikhin told how he settled the issue with the promissory note.

Razumikhin laid out the loan letter on the table; Raskolnikov glanced at him and, without saying a word, turned away to the wall. Even Razumikhin was jarred.

I see, brother, - he said after a minute, - that he again made a fool out of himself. I thought I was going to entertain you and amuse you with chatter, but, it seems, I only caught up with bile.

Did I not recognize you in delirium? asked Raskolnikov, also after a minute's silence, without turning his head.

Me, and even went into a frenzy on this occasion, especially when I once brought Zametov.

Zametov?.. A clerk?.. Why? Raskolnikov quickly turned around and fixed his eyes on Razumikhin.

Why are you so ... What are you worried about? Wanted to meet you; he himself wished, because we talked a lot about you ... Otherwise, from whom would I have learned so much about you? ..

Did I ramble on something?

Still would! They didn't belong to themselves.

What was I raving about?

Evosya! What were you raving about? It is known what they are raving about ... Well, brother, now, so as not to waste time, let's get to work.

He got up from his chair and grabbed his cap.

What were you raving about?

Eck will fix it! Are you afraid of a secret? Don't worry: nothing was said about the Countess. But about some bulldog, and about earrings, and about some chains, and about Krestovsky Island, and about some kind of janitor, and about Nikodim Fomich, and about Ilya Petrovich, assistant warden, a lot was said. And besides, you were very interested in your own sock, very much! They complained: give, they say, and nothing more. Zametov himself looked for your socks in all corners, and with his own, washed in spirits, pens, with rings, he gave you this rubbish. Then only they calmed down, and kept this rubbish in their hands for a whole day; couldn't be pulled out. It must be somewhere under your covers now. And then he asked for fringes on his pantaloons, but how tearful! We already asked: what else is there fringe? Yes, it was impossible to make out anything ... Well, sir, let's get to work! Here is thirty-five rubles; I take ten of them, and in two hours I will present a report on them. In the meantime, I will let Zossimov know, even though he should have been here a long time ago, for it is the twelfth hour. And you, Nastenka, visit more often without me, about drinking there or anything else that you want ... And I myself will tell Pashenka now what I need to say. Goodbye!

When everyone left, Raskolnikov got up and darted around the room, thinking about one question: do they know or do they not know that he committed the murder?

He stood in the middle of the room and looked around in tormenting bewilderment; went to the door, opened it, listened; but that was not it. Suddenly, as if remembering, he rushed to the corner where there was a hole in the wallpaper, began to inspect everything, put his hand into the hole, rummaged around, but this was not the same. He went up to the stove, opened it, and began to rummage through the ashes: the pieces of fringe from the pantaloons and the shreds of the torn pocket were lying around, as he had thrown them away, so no one was looking! Then he remembered the sock that Razumikhin was just talking about. True, here he was lying on the sofa, under the covers, but he had become so worn and dirty since then that, of course, Zametov could not see anything.

They think I'm sick! They don't even know that I can walk, he-he-he!.. I guessed from my eyes that they know everything! Just get off the stairs! And well, how do they have a watchman there, policemen! What is it, tea? And, here is the beer left, half a bottle, cold! He snatched up the bottle, which still had a whole glass of beer left, and drank it in one gulp with pleasure, as if putting out a fire in his chest. But in less than a minute, the beer hit him in the head, and a slight and even pleasant chill went down his back. He lay down and pulled the blanket over himself. His thoughts, already sick and incoherent, began to interfere more and more, and soon a dream, light and pleasant, seized him. With pleasure he found a place on the pillow with his head, wrapped himself more tightly in the soft wadded blanket, which he now wore instead of the torn old greatcoat, sighed softly and fell into a deep, strong, healing sleep.

Raskolnikov woke up when he heard someone enter him. It was Razumikhin. With the money he received, he bought a friend new clothes.

He began to untie the knot, in which he seemed to be extremely interested.

Believe me, brother, this was especially in my heart. Because you need to make a man out of you. Let's get started: let's start at the top. Do you see this cape? he began, taking out of the bundle a rather pretty, but at the same time very ordinary and cheap cap. - May I try it on?

Then, after, - said Raskolnikov, waving his hand obtusely.

No, brother Rodya, do not resist, then it will be too late; and I won’t fall asleep all night, therefore, without measuring, I bought at random. Just! - He exclaimed solemnly, trying on, - just the right size! Headgear, this, brother, is the very first thing in a suit, a kind of recommendation. Tolstyakov, my friend, is forced to take off his tire every time he enters some common place where all the others in hats and caps are standing. Everyone thinks that he is from slavish feelings, but he is simply because he is ashamed of his bird's nest: such a bashful person! Well, Nastenka, here are two headdresses for you: this palmerston (he took from the corner Raskolnikov's warped round hat, which, for some unknown reason, he called palmerston) or this piece of jewelry? Estimate, Rodya, what do you think you paid? Nastasyushka? he turned to her, seeing that he was silent.

Two kopecks, I suppose, he gave, - answered Nastasya.

Twopenny, fool! - he shouted, offended, - now for two kopecks you can’t buy you, - eight hryvnias! And that's because it's worn ... I warn you - I'm proud of my pants! - and he straightened his gray pantaloons, made of light summer woolen fabric, in front of Raskolnikov, - not a hole, not a spot, but meanwhile very tolerable, although well-worn, the same waistcoat, one-color, as fashion requires ... Well, let's get started now to the boots - what are they? After all, it is clear that they are well-worn, but they will satisfy for two months, because foreign work and foreign goods: the secretary of the British embassy last week on Tolkuchy lowered; only six days and wore, but the money was very needed. The price is one ruble fifty kopecks. Good luck?

Yes, you can't! Nastasya noticed.

Not fit! And what's that? - and he pulled out of his pocket Raskolnikov's old, rough, covered with dried mud, holey boot, - I walked with a margin, and they restored my real size to this monster. All this work was carried out cordially. And as for the underwear, we discussed it with the hostess ... And now, brother, let me change the underwear, otherwise, perhaps, the illness is only now sitting in the shirt ...

Leave! Don't want! - Raskolnikov dismissed, listening with disgust to Razumikhin's intensely playful report about buying a dress ...

That, brother, is impossible; Why did I trample my boots! Razumikhin insisted. - Nastasyushka, do not be ashamed, but help, like this! - and, despite the resistance of Raskolnikov, he nevertheless changed his underwear. He fell on the headboard and for two minutes did not say a word.

"They won't let go for a long time!" he thought. - From what money is it all bought? he finally asked, looking at the wall.

Money? Here's to you! Yes, from your own. Just now the artel worker was from Vakhrushin, mother sent; al forgot that?

Now I remember ... - Raskolnikov said, after a long and gloomy thought. Razumikhin, frowning, looked at him with concern.

The door opened, and a tall and stout man entered, as if he, too, already somewhat familiar to Raskolnikov in appearance.

Zosimov! Finally! shouted Razumikhin, overjoyed...

Zossimov was a tall and stout man, with a puffy and colourless-pale, smooth-shaven face, with blond, straight hair, wearing spectacles, and with a large gold ring on his finger swollen with fat. He was twenty seven years old. He was dressed in a wide, dapper, light overcoat, in light summer trousers, and in general everything on him was wide, dapper, and brand new; the underwear is impeccable, the watch chain is massive. His manner was slow, as if languid and at the same time studied and cheeky; the claim, however intensely concealed, peeped out every minute. Everyone who knew him found him a difficult person, but they said that he knew his business.

I, brother, came to you twice ... You see, I woke up! shouted Razumikhin.

See see; Well, how do we feel now, huh? - Zosimov turned to Raskolnikov, peering intently at him and sitting down at his feet on the sofa, where he immediately collapsed as far as possible.

Yes, he’s moping all the time, ”continued Razumikhin,“ we just changed his underwear, he almost burst into tears.

Understandably; underwear could be done after, if he himself does not want to ... The pulse is glorious. Your head still hurts a little, huh?

I'm healthy, I'm perfectly healthy! Raskolnikov said insistently and irritably, suddenly rising up on the sofa and flashing his eyes, but immediately fell back on the pillow and turned to the wall. Zosimov watched him intently.

Very well… everything is as it should be,” he said languidly. - Did you eat anything?

He was told and asked what he could give.

Yes, everything can be given ... Soup, tea ... Mushrooms and cucumbers, of course, do not give, well, you don’t need beef either, and ... well, why talk about it! .. - He exchanged glances with Razumikhin. - Potion away and everything away; and tomorrow I'll see ... It would be today ... well, yes ...

Tomorrow evening I'm taking him for a walk! - Razumikhin decided, - we’ll go to the Yusupov Garden, and then we’ll go to the Palais de Cristal.

Tomorrow, I wouldn't move him, but by the way ... a little ... well, we'll see there.

Zosimov and Razumikhin started talking about the house-warming party scheduled for the next day at Razumikhin's. Among those invited was supposed to be a local investigator, Porfiry Petrovich. From their conversation, Raskolnikov learned that the painter Mikolay, who worked in the house where the murder had taken place, was accused of murdering the old pawnbroker and Lizaveta - he found a box with gold earrings in the apartment being renovated and tried to pawn them from the owner of the tavern. Zosimov and Razumikhin began to discuss the details of the case. Razumikhin tried to restore the picture of the murder and came to the following conclusion: Kokh and Pestryakov, who came to the pawnbroker, found the killer in the apartment. When they went down for 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.

In the midst of a conversation, a man unknown to anyone present entered the room, introducing himself as Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Dunya's fiancé.

It was a gentleman, no longer young, prim, dignified, with a cautious and peevish physiognomy, who began by stopping at the door, looking around with offensively undisguised surprise and as if asking with his eyes: "Where did I get to?" Incredulously and even with an affectation of a certain fright, almost even an insult, he looked around Raskolnikov's cramped and low "sea cabin". With the same surprise, he turned and then fixed his eyes on Raskolnikov himself, undressed, disheveled, unwashed, lying on his scanty dirty sofa and also staring at him motionlessly. Then, with the same slowness, he began to examine the disheveled, unshaven, and unkempt figure of Razumikhin, who, in turn, stared impudently inquiringly straight into his eyes, without moving. There was a tense silence for about a minute, and finally, as might be expected, there was a small change of scenery. Realizing, probably, according to some, however, very sharp, data, that with an exaggeratedly strict posture here in this “sea cabin”, you can’t take absolutely anything, the gentleman who came in softened a little and politely, although not without severity, said, addressing to Zosimov and rapping out every syllable of his question:

Rodion Romanych Raskolnikov, mister student or former student?..

Raskolnikov himself lay all the time in silence, on his back, and stubbornly, although without any thought, looked at the newcomer. His face, now turned away from the curious flower on the wallpaper, was extremely pale and expressed unusual suffering, as if he had just undergone a painful operation or had just been released from torture. But the gentleman who entered, little by little, began to arouse in him more and more attention, then bewilderment, then distrust, and even, as it were, fear. When Zosimov, pointing to him, said: “Here is Raskolnikov,” he suddenly, quickly rising, as if jumping up, sat up on the bed and in an almost defiant, but intermittent and weak voice said:

Yes! I am Raskolnikov! What do you need?

Luzhin informed Raskolnikov that his mother and sister should soon come to Petersburg and stay in rooms (of the lowest standard) at his expense, that he had already bought a permanent apartment for himself and Dunya, but it was being finished now. Luzhin also said that he himself stayed nearby, with his young friend Andrei Semenovich Lebezyatnikov.

Luzhin started 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 arranged.

Agree yourself,” he continued, turning to Razumikhin, but with a hint of some triumph and superiority, and almost added: “young man,” “that there is success, or, as they say now, progress, if only in the name of science and economic truth...

General place!

No, not a common place, sir! If, for example, I have been told up to now: “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. The thought is simple, but, unfortunately, did not come for too long, obscured by enthusiasm and dreaminess, and it would seem that a little wit is needed to guess ...

Excuse me, I'm also not witty, - Razumikhin interrupted sharply, - and therefore let's stop. After all, I spoke with a purpose, otherwise I was all this chatter-self-talk, all these incessant, uninterrupted commonplaces, and all the same and all the same, so disgusted at the age of three that, by God, I blush when others, not like me, speak in front of me. Of course, you were in a hurry to introduce yourself in your knowledge, this is very forgivable, and I do not blame. I only wanted to know now who you are, because, you see, so many different industrialists have recently clung to the common cause, and they have so distorted everything they touched to their own interest that absolutely the whole thing messed up. Well, that's enough!

Dear sir,” began Mr. Luzhin, grimacing with extraordinary dignity, “would you like to explain, so unceremoniously, that I too ...

Oh, have mercy, have mercy ... Could I! .. Well, sir, that's enough! - Razumikhin snapped and turned abruptly with the continuation of the previous conversation to Zosimov.

Pyotr Petrovich turned out to be so smart as to immediately believe the explanation. However, he decided to leave after two minutes.

Razumikhin interrupted Luzhin's ranting. Zosimov and Razumikhin again started talking about the murder. The first believed that the old woman must have been killed by one of those to whom she lent money. The second agreed with him and said that the investigator Porfiry Petrovich was interrogating them. Luzhin, intervening in the conversation, began to rant about the growth of crime not only in the lower strata of society, but also in the upper ones. Raskolnikov intervened. 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.

Is it true that you, - Raskolnikov suddenly interrupted again in a voice trembling with anger, in which some kind of joy of insult was heard, - is it true that you told your bride ... at the very hour when you received consent from her that We are most glad of all ... that she is a beggar ... because it is more profitable to take a wife out of poverty in order to rule over her later ... and reproach her for being favored by you? ..

Your Majesty! Luzhin exclaimed angrily and irritably, blushing and confused all over, “dear sir ... to distort the thought so much! Excuse me, but I must tell you that the rumors that have reached you, or, rather, brought to you, do not have a shadow of a sound basis, and I ... suspect who ... in a word ... this arrow. .. in a word, your mother ... She already seemed to me, for all, however, her excellent qualities, a somewhat enthusiastic and romantic tinge in my thoughts ... But I was still a thousand miles away from the assumption that she she could understand and present the case in such a fantasy-perverted form... And finally... finally...

Do you know what? Raskolnikov exclaimed, rising on the pillow and looking at him point-blank with a piercing, sparkling gaze, “you know what?

What about? Luzhin stopped and waited with an offended and defiant air. There was silence for a few seconds.

And the fact that if you once again ... dare to mention at least one word ... about my mother ... then I will roll you down the stairs somersault!

What happened to you! shouted Razumikhin.

Ah, so here it is! Luzhin turned pale and bit his lip. “Listen, sir, to me,” he began with an arrangement and restraining himself with all his strength, but still out of breath, “I guessed your dislike from the very first step, but I purposely stayed here to find out even more. I could forgive a sick person and a relative a lot, but now ... you ... never, sir ...

I am not sick! cried Raskolnikov.

All the more so...

Get the hell out!

But Luzhin was already leaving himself, without finishing his speech, crawling again between the table and the chair; Razumikhin got up this time to let him through. Without looking at anyone, and without even nodding his head to Zosimov, who had been nodding to him for a long time to leave the patient alone, Luzhin went out...

Is it possible, is it possible? said Razumikhin, puzzled, shaking his head.

Leave, leave me all! cried Raskolnikov in a frenzy. - Will you leave me at last, tormentors! I'm not afraid of you! I'm not afraid of anyone, anyone now! Get away from me! I want to be alone, alone, alone, alone!

Raskolnikov, left alone, looked at Nastasya with impatience and anguish; but she still hesitated to leave.

Would you like some tea now? she asked.

After! I want to sleep! Leave me alone...

He turned convulsively to the wall; Nastasya left.

When everyone had left, Raskolnikov untied the bundle of clothes that Razumikhin had brought the day before and began to dress. In appearance, he was completely calm, but all the time he muttered one phrase: “Today, today!” After dressing, he took the money lying on the table and put it in his pocket. Going down the stairs, he looked into the kitchen - Nastasya had her back to him and did not see him go out.

He went outside at eight o'clock in the evening. It was still stuffy, the sun was almost down. Inhaling heavy air, Raskolnikov felt his head spinning. He did not know where to go, but thought, “that all this must be ended today, at one time, right now; that he will not return home otherwise, because he does not want to live like this. Following an old habit, he headed for the Sennaya, but before reaching it, on the pavement, he saw an organ grinder, near whom a girl of about fifteen, dressed like a young lady, was singing a romance. Raskolnikov crossed the square and found himself in a side street rich in all sorts of places of entertainment.

“Where is this,” thought Raskolnikov, walking on, “where did I read how one sentenced to death, an hour before death, says or thinks that if he had to live somewhere on a height, on a rock, and on such on a narrow platform, so that only two feet could be placed - and all around there would be abysses, an ocean, eternal darkness, eternal solitude and an eternal storm, - and to remain so, standing on an arshin of space, all my life, a thousand years, eternity - it’s better like that to live than to die now! Just to live, live and live! No matter how you live - just live! .. What a truth! Lord, what a truth! Scoundrel man! And the scoundrel is the one who calls him a scoundrel for this, ”he added after a minute.

Raskolnikov went into a tavern and asked for newspapers. In the back room, he saw Zametov, a clerk from the police station, a friend of Razumikhin, who brought him to Raskolnikov when he was unconscious. When the newspapers were brought, Rodion began to look for "news" about the murder in them. Suddenly he noticed that Zametov was sitting next to him. The clerk was cheerful and smiled good-naturedly.

How! Are you here? - he began in bewilderment and in such a tone, as if the century were familiar, - and yesterday Razumikhin told me that you are all out of memory. That's strange! But I was with you...

Raskolnikov knew he would come. He put down the newspapers and turned to Zametov. There was a smile on his lips, and some new irritable impatience peeped through this smile... Here he looked enigmatically at Zametov; a mocking smile twisted his lips again.

And confess, dear young man, that you are terribly anxious to know what I have read about?

I don't want to at all; I so asked. Can't you ask? What are you all...

So I give evidence that I read, was interested ... searched ... searched ... - Raskolnikov screwed up his eyes and waited, - he was looking for - and for that he came here - about the murder of an old clerk, - he finally said, almost in a whisper, extremely bringing his face close to Zametov's. Zametov looked at him straight at point-blank range, without moving or moving his face away from his. What struck Zametov afterwards as strange of all was that their silence lasted for exactly a full minute, and for exactly a full minute they looked at each other like that.

Well, what did you read? he suddenly exclaimed in bewilderment and impatience. - What do I care! What's in that?

This is the same old woman,” continued Raskolnikov, in the same whisper and without moving at Zametov’s exclamation, “the same one about whom, remember, when they began to talk in the office, and I fainted. What do you understand now?

Yes, what is it? What... "understand"? said Zametov, almost in alarm. 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 ax jumped, they were cursing and breaking behind the door, and he suddenly wanted to scream at them, swear at them, stick out their tongue, tease them laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh!

You are either insane, or ... - Zametov said - and stopped, as if suddenly struck by a thought that suddenly flashed through his mind.

Or? What is "or"? Well? Well, tell me!

Nothing! - Zametov answered in his hearts, - everything is nonsense!

Today, a lot of these frauds are divorced, - said Zametov. - Just recently, I read in Moskovskie Vedomosti that a whole gang of counterfeit coins was caught in Moscow. There was a whole society. Fake tickets.

Oh, it's been a long time! I read it a month ago,” Raskolnikov replied calmly. - So this is something, in your opinion, scammers? he added, smiling. How are they not scammers?

This? These are children, blanbecks, not swindlers! A whole fifty people are gathering for this purpose! Is it possible? There will be a lot of three days here, and even then, so that everyone is more confident in each other than himself! And then it’s worth talking to one drunk, and everything went to dust! Blancbacks! Unreliable people are hired to change tickets in offices: is it a matter of trusting the first person you meet? Well, let's say we succeeded with the blancbacks, let's say, each one got a million for himself, but then? All your life? Each one depends on the other for the rest of his life! Yes, it's better to choke! But they didn’t even know how to change: I began to change in the office, received five thousand, and my hands trembled. He counted four, and accepted the fifth without counting, on faith, so that only in his pocket and run away as soon as possible. Well, it aroused suspicion. And everything collapsed because of one fool! Is it possible?

Why did your hands tremble? - picked up Zametov, - no, it's possible, sir. No, I'm pretty sure it's possible. You won't last another time.

This something?

And you, I suppose, endure? No, I couldn't resist! For a hundred rubles reward to go to a sort of horror! Go with a fake ticket - where to? - to the banking office, where they ate the dog on this - no, I would be embarrassed. Aren't you embarrassed?..

Raskolnikov frowned and looked intently at Zametov.

You seem to have taken a liking and want to know what I would have done here too? he asked with displeasure...

I would like to, - he answered firmly and seriously.

Fine. This is how I would do it, - Raskolnikov began, again suddenly bringing his face closer to Zametov's, again looking at him point-blank and again speaking in a whisper, so that he even shuddered this time. - I would do this: I would take money and things and, as soon as I left there, immediately, without going anywhere, I would go somewhere where the place is deaf and there are only fences, and there is almost no one - some kind of vegetable garden or something like that. I would have seen there even earlier, in this yard, some such stone, that way, a pood or a half weight, somewhere in the corner, by the fence, which may have been lying since the construction of the house; I would lift this stone - there should be a hole under it - and I would put all the things and money in this hole. I would have folded it and piled it with a stone, in the form in which it had previously been lying, I would have pressed it down with my foot, and I would have gone away. Yes, I wouldn’t take a year, I wouldn’t take two, I wouldn’t take three, - well, look for it! There was, but the whole thing came out!

You're crazy, - for some reason Zametov uttered, also almost in a whisper, and for some reason suddenly moved away from Raskolnikov. His 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 lower it, just about to pronounce it!

What if it was I who killed the old woman and Lizaveta? - he said suddenly and - he came to his senses.

Zametov looked wildly at him and turned white as a tablecloth. His face twisted into a smile.

Is it possible? he spoke in a barely audible voice.

Raskolnikov looked at him angrily.

Confess that you believe? Yes? After all, yes?

Not at all! Now more than ever, I don't believe it! Zametov said hastily.

Got it at last! Caught a sparrow. So, they believed before, when now “more than ever, you don’t believe”?

Yes, not at all! exclaimed Zametov, apparently embarrassed. “Is that why you frightened me, to bring me to this?”

So you don't believe? And what did you talk about without me when I left the office then? And why did Lieutenant Porokh interrogate me after fainting? Hey you, - he shouted to the officer, getting up and taking his cap, - how much from me?

Thirty kopecks in total, sir,” he answered, running up.

Yes, here's another twenty kopecks for vodka. Look how much money! - he extended his trembling hand to Zametov with credit cards - red, blue, twenty-five rubles. From where? Where did the new dress come from? After all, you know that there was no penny! The hostess, I suppose, they already interrogated ... Well, that's enough! Assez cause! Goodbye... have a nice day!..

He went out, trembling from some wild hysterical feeling. And Zametov, left alone, sat for a long time in the same place, in thought. Raskolnikov casually turned all his thoughts about a certain point upside down and finally established his opinion.

"Ilya Petrovich is a blockhead!" he finally decided.

Raskolnikov ran into Razumikhin at the door.

Razumikhin was in the greatest astonishment, but suddenly anger, real anger, flashed menacingly in his eyes.

So there you are! he shouted at the top of his voice. - He ran out of bed! And I even looked for him there under the sofa! They went to the attic! Nastasya almost killed for you... And he's over there! Rodka! What does it mean? Tell the whole truth! Confess! Do you hear?

And that means that you are all tired of me to death, and I want to be alone, - Raskolnikov answered calmly ... - Listen, Razumikhin, - Raskolnikov began quietly and apparently quite calmly, - don’t you see that I don’t want to your blessings? And what is the desire to do good to those who ... spit on it? Those, finally, for whom it is seriously difficult to endure? Well, why did you find me at the beginning of the illness? Perhaps I would be very glad to die? Well, haven't I shown you enough today that you're torturing me, that I'm... tired of you! Hunting is really torturing people! ..

Razumikhin stood for a moment, thought, and let go of his hand...

Get the hell out! he said softly and almost thoughtfully. - Stop! - he suddenly roared, when Raskolnikov started to move, - listen to me ... You know, today they are going to my housewarming party, maybe they have come now, but I left my uncle there, - ran in just now, - to receive those who come. So, if you weren't a fool, not a vulgar fool, not a stuffed fool, not a translation from a foreign language... you see, Rodya, I confess, you're a smart little fellow, but you're a fool! - so, if you weren't a fool, you'd better come to me today, to sit in the evening, than to trample on your boots for nothing ... Will you come in, or what?

Vr-r-resh! cried Razumikhin impatiently, how do you know? You cannot be responsible for yourself! And yes, you don't understand any of this.

I won't come, Razumikhin! Raskolnikov turned and walked away.

Bet you'll come! Razumikhin called after him. “Otherwise, you ... otherwise I don’t want to know you!”

Raskolnikov went to the bridge, stopped at the railing and began to look at the water. Suddenly he felt that someone was standing next to him. Looking around, he saw a tall woman with a tired face, who looked at him with an unseeing look, not noticing anything. Suddenly she leaned on the railing and threw herself into the water. A minute later, the drowned woman surfaced and was carried downstream. The policeman, running down the stairs to the ditch, grabbed her by her clothes and pulled her out of the water. She quickly woke up and began to sneeze and snort without saying anything. The people began to disperse. Discarding the fleeting thought of suicide, Raskolnikov went to the police station, but turned the other way and did not notice himself how he ended up at the house where he committed the murder.

He entered the house, went through the whole gateway, then into the first entrance on the right and began to climb the familiar stairs to the fourth floor. It was very dark on the narrow and steep stairs. He stopped at each landing and looked around with curiosity. On the landing of the first floor, the frame was completely exposed in the window: “That didn’t exist then,” he thought. Here is the apartment on the second floor where Nikolashka and Mitka worked: “Locked; and the door is repainted; is given, that is, for hire. Here is the third floor... and the fourth... "Here!" Perplexity seized him: the door to this apartment was wide open, there were people there, voices were heard; he didn't expect it at all. After a moment's hesitation, he climbed the last steps and entered the apartment.

She, too, was refinished; it had workers; it seemed to startle him. For some reason it seemed to him that he would meet everything exactly the same as he left then, even, perhaps, the corpses in the same places on the floor. And now: bare walls, no furniture; somehow strange! He went to the window and sat on the sill.

There were two workers in total, both young guys, one older and the other much younger. They papered the walls with new wallpaper, white with purple flowers, instead of the old yellow, tattered and worn. For some reason, Raskolnikov disliked this terribly; he looked at this new wallpaper with hostility, as if it were a pity that everything had changed so much.

The workers, obviously, hesitated and now hastily rolled up their paper and got ready to go home. The appearance of Raskolnikov almost did not attract their attention. They were talking about...

Raskolnikov got up and went into another room, where there had been a wardrobe and chest of drawers; the room seemed to him terribly small without furniture. The wallpaper was still the same; in the corner, on the wallpaper, the place where the kiot with images stood was sharply marked. He looked and turned back to his window. The senior worker looked askance.

What do you want? he suddenly asked, turning to him. Instead of answering, Raskolnikov got up, went out into the hallway, took hold of the bell and pulled it. 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 come back to him more and more vividly, he shuddered with every blow, and it became more and more pleasant for him ...

The workers looked at him in bewilderment.

It's time for us to leave, sir, we lingered. Let's go, Alyosha. It is necessary to lock up, - said the senior worker.

Well, let's go! - answered Raskolnikov indifferently and stepped forward, slowly going down the stairs ..

The janitor looked at Raskolnikov with bewilderment and frowning...

Yes, who are you? he shouted more ominously.

I am Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former student, and I live in Shil's house, here in the alley, not far from here, in apartment number fourteen. Ask the janitor... he knows me. - Raskolnikov said all this somehow lazily and thoughtfully, without turning around and looking intently at the darkened street.

But why did they come to Vatera?

Look.

What is there to see?

Why bother with him, ”shouted another janitor, a huge peasant, in an overcoat and with keys in his belt. - Pshol! .. And really burning out ... Pshol!

And, grabbing Raskolnikov by the shoulder, he threw him into the street. He was about to somersault, but did not fall, straightened up, silently looked at all the spectators and went on.

Stopping in the middle of the pavement, Raskolnikov pondered whether to go to the quarter warden, but his attention was attracted by the crowd gathered on the street.

A carriage was standing among the crowd... A light flickered in the middle of the street. "What's happened?" Raskolnikov turned to the right and walked towards the crowd. He seemed to be clinging to everything and chuckled coldly when he thought this, because he must have decided about the office and knew for sure that now everything would be over.

Going forward, he saw that on the ground, unconscious, covered in blood, lay a man crushed by horses. The carriage belonged to a rich and distinguished gentleman, so the driver did not worry too much about how to settle this matter, but calmly talked to the assembled people. The victim had to be taken to the hospital, but no one knew his name. Coming even closer to the scene, Raskolnikov recognized the crushed titular adviser Marmeladov, whom he had recently met in a tavern. Feeling relieved that his visit to the police station was being postponed, Raskolnikov took over the care of the wounded man and offered to transport the insensitive Marmeladov to his home as soon as possible. When the crushed official was brought into the house, his wife, Katerina Ivanovna, walked around the room and talked to herself. The children were getting ready for bed.

What is this? she cried, glancing at the crowd in the passage and at the people who were pushing their way into her room with some kind of burden. - What is this? What are they carrying? God!

Where do you put it? - asked the policeman, looking around, when they had already dragged the bloody and unconscious Marmeladov into the room.

On the sofa! Lay it right on the sofa, with your head over here, ”Raskolnikov pointed.

Crushed in the street! Drunk! - shouted someone from the hallway.

Katerina Ivanovna stood all pale and breathing hard. The children got scared. Little Lidochka screamed, rushed to Polenka, hugged her and shook all over.

Having laid Marmeladov down, Raskolnikov rushed to Katerina Ivanovna:

For God's sake, calm down, don't be scared! - he said quickly, - he was crossing the street, he was crushed by a carriage, do not worry, he will wake up, I ordered to carry it here ... I was with you, remember ... He will wake up, I will cry!

Achieved! Katerina Ivanovna cried out desperately and rushed to her husband.

Raskolnikov soon noticed that this woman was not one of those who immediately fainted. In an instant a pillow appeared under the head of the unfortunate man, which no one had yet thought of; Katerina Ivanovna began to undress him, examine him, fussed and did not get lost, forgetting about herself, biting her trembling lips and suppressing screams that were ready to escape from her chest.

Meanwhile, Raskolnikov persuaded someone to run for the doctor. The doctor, as it turned out, lived across the house...

Fields! - shouted Katerina Ivanovna, - run to Sonya, quickly. If you don’t find yourself at home, it doesn’t matter, say that the father of the horse was crushed and that she immediately went here ... as soon as she returns. Hurry, Paul! Here, cover yourself with a handkerchief! ..

Meanwhile, the room was filled so that the apple had nowhere to fall. The policemen left, except for one, who remained for a while and tried to drive the public, who had gathered from the stairs, back onto the stairs again. On the other hand, almost all of Mrs. Lippewechsel's tenants poured out of the inner rooms, and at first they crowded only in the doorway, but then they rushed in a crowd into the room itself.

Katerina Ivanovna went into a frenzy.

If only they could die in peace! - she shouted at the whole crowd - what a performance they found! With cigarettes! Heh heh heh! In hats, come in again! .. And then only one in a hat ... Out! Have some respect for a dead body!

The dying man woke up and groaned, and she ran to him. The patient opened his eyes and, not yet recognizing and not understanding, began to peer at Raskolnikov, who was standing over him. He breathed heavily, deeply and infrequently; blood was squeezed out on the outskirts of the lips; sweat broke out on his forehead. Not recognizing Raskolnikov, he uneasily began to look around. Katerina Ivanovna looked at him with a sad but stern look, and tears flowed from her eyes.

Priest! said the dying man again after a moment's silence.

Let's go-and-and! Katerina Ivanovna shouted at him; he obeyed the call and fell silent. With a timid, melancholy look he searched for her with his eyes; she again returned to him and stood at the head of the bed. He calmed down somewhat, but not for long. Soon his eyes rested on little Lidochka (his favorite), trembling in the corner, as if in a fit, and looking at him with her astonished, childlike eyes...

The doctor came in, a neat old man, a German, looking around with an air of incredulity; went up to the patient, took a pulse, carefully felt his head and, with the help of Katerina Ivanovna, unbuttoned the entire shirt soaked with blood and exposed the patient's chest. The whole chest was mangled, crumpled and torn; several ribs on the right side are broken. On the left side, at the very heart, there was an ominous, large, yellowish-black spot, a cruel blow with a hoof. The doctor frowned. The policeman told him that the crushed man was caught in a wheel and dragged, turning, thirty steps along the pavement.

It's amazing how he still woke up, - the doctor whispered quietly to Raskolnikov.

What do you say? he asked.

Will die now.

Is there really no hope?

Not the slightest! At the last gasp ... Besides, the head is very dangerously injured ... Hm. Perhaps you can open the blood ... but ... it will be useless. In five or ten minutes, he will surely die ...

From the crowd, inaudibly and timidly, a girl made her way, and it was strange her sudden appearance in this room, among poverty, rags, death and despair. She, too, was in rags; her outfit was cheap, but decorated in a street style, according to the taste and rules that had developed in her own special world, with a bright and shamefully prominent goal. Sonya stopped in the entryway at the very threshold, but did not cross the threshold and looked as if lost, not realizing anything, it seemed, forgetting about her secondhand, silk, indecent here, colored dress with a long and ridiculous tail, and an immense crinoline that blocked the whole door, and about light-colored shoes, and about an ombrelka, unnecessary at night, but which she took with her, and about a funny straw hat with a bright fiery feather. From under this hat, worn on a boyish side, peeped out a thin, pale and frightened little face with an open mouth and eyes motionless with horror. Sonya was small, about eighteen years old, thin, but rather pretty blonde, with wonderful blue eyes. She gazed at the bed, at the priest; she, too, was out of breath from her quick walk. Finally a whisper, some of the words in the crowd must have reached her. She looked down, took a step over the threshold, and stood in the room, but again at the very door...

Katerina Ivanovna fussed around the patient, she gave him something to drink, wiped the sweat and blood from his head, adjusted the pillows and talked to the priest...

Marmeladov was in his last agony; he did not take his eyes off the face of Katerina Ivanovna, who was bending over him again. He kept wanting to say something to her; he was about to begin, moving his tongue with an effort and pronouncing the words indistinctly, but Katerina Ivanovna, realizing that he wanted to ask her forgiveness, immediately shouted commandingly at him:

Shut up! No need! .. I know what you want to say! .. - And the patient fell silent; but at that very moment his wandering glance fell on the door, and he saw Sonya...

Until now he had not noticed her: she was standing in the corner and in the shade...

Sonya! Daughter! Sorry! he shouted, and he was about to stretch out his hand to her, but, having lost his support, he tore off and crashed from the sofa, right on his face to the ground; they rushed to pick him up, put him down, but he was already moving away. Sonya cried out weakly, ran up, hugged him and froze in this embrace. He died in her arms...

Raskolnikov gave Katerina Ivanovna all the money he had in his pocket and quickly left. On the stairs, he ran into Nikolai Fomich, who learned about the misfortune and came to express his condolences.

They had not seen each other since the scene in the office, but Nikodim Fomich instantly recognized him.

Svidrigailov came to ask Raskolnikov to organize his meeting with Avdotya Romanovna. “They won’t let me into the yard alone, without a recommendation.” He confessed to Raskolnikov that he truly loved his sister. “You are simply disgusting to me, whether you are right or wrong,” he replied to Svidrigailov’s attempt to present himself as a victim of unrequited love in the story with Avdotya Romanovna. About the death of his wife (there were rumors that he was to blame for her), Svidrigailov said that his conscience was completely calm: “The medical investigation discovered apoplexy resulting from bathing after a hearty dinner with a bottle of wine. I hit the whip only twice, there weren’t even signs.” Svidrigailov cynically asserted that Marfa Petrovna was even glad about this, because everyone was tired of the story with Raskolnikov's sister, and she had nothing to talk about when she came from the city. And after the beatings of her husband, she immediately ordered the carriage to be laid and went to the city on visits.

Despite Raskolnikov's rather offhand questions, Svidrigailov was calm and said that Rodion seemed strange to him. Svidrigailov mentioned that he used to be a cheater, that he was in prison for debts, but Marfa Petrovna bought him out. They got married and went to live with her in the village. She loved him, but she kept a document against him in case he decided to rebel. So he lived without a break in the village for 7 years. Svidrigailov mentioned Marfa Petrovna so often in conversation that Raskolnikov directly asked if he missed her. "Right, maybe..."

Svidrigailov spoke in detail about the visits of Marfa Petrovna, who comes to him after her death. Then he admitted that not only she appeared to him, but also his courtyard man, in whose death he was also blamed by rumors. Raskolnikov was tired of Svidrigailov's reasoning, balancing on the verge of common sense and the delirium of a madman. He asked Svidrigailov to say directly what he needed. He said that Avdotya Romanovna should not marry Luzhin. Svidrigailov conceived a voyage, a journey. His children are provided for, they are with their aunt. He would like to see Avdotya Romanovna in the presence of Raskolnikov, to explain to her that there would be no benefit to her from Mr. Luzhin. He understands him well, the quarrel with his wife occurred precisely because she concocted this wedding. He wants to apologize to Raskolnikov's sister for all the trouble he caused her, and then offer her 10 thousand rubles to ease the break with Luzhin.

Raskolnikov refused to give his sister Svidrigailov's bold proposal. But he threatened that in this case he himself would seek a meeting with Raskolnikov's sister, and he promised to convey his proposal to his sister. At the end of the visit, Svidrigailov said that Marfa Petrovna had bequeathed three thousand rubles to Avdotya Romanovna.

Further, in the 4th part of the novel Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky tells that Svidrigailov ran into Razumikhin at the door. Raskolnikov and Razumikhin went to Rodion's mother and sister to meet with Luzhin. On the way, Razumikhin told him that he had tried to talk to Porfiry Petrovich and Zametov about their suspicions, but "they definitely don't understand." In the corridor they ran into Luzhin, and they all entered the room together.

Pyotr Petrovich looked like an offended man. The conversation didn't go well at first. Then Pyotr Petrovich spoke of Svidrigailov, considering it his duty to warn the ladies that immediately after his wife's funeral he had recovered to Petersburg. He said that Marfa Petrovna not only bought him out of prison at one time, but through her efforts a criminal case was suppressed, for which Svidrigailov could have ended up in Siberia. Dunya asked me to tell you more about this. It turned out that Svidrigailov was in a close relationship with the foreigner Resslich. She had a niece, a 15-year-old girl, deaf and mute. Her aunt treated her very cruelly. One day a girl was found strangled in the attic. It was officially announced that it was suicide, but there were rumors that the child was severely abused by Svidrigailov. Luzhin mentioned the death of the court man Philip, which was also blamed on Svidrigailov. Regarding Philip, Avdotya Romanovna noticed that she had heard that this Philip was a hypochondriac, a domestic philosopher, and that he had hanged himself from the ridicule of those around him, and not from the beatings of the owner.

Raskolnikov told those present that Svidrigailov was with him and asked him to pass on a proposal to his sister. What exactly Svidrigailov proposed, Raskolnikov refused to say, also said that Marfa Petrovna bequeathed three thousand rubles to Dunya. Luzhin was about to leave, because Raskolnikov did not tell what exactly Svidrigailov's proposal was, and his request for Raskolnikov's absence during their meeting was not granted. Dunya replied that she had specially invited her brother to resolve the misunderstanding that had arisen between them. Luzhin believes that Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dunya, who left everything and came to St. Petersburg, are now completely in his power. Raskolnikov caught Luzhin in a lie. After all, he gave the money to the mother of the unfortunate widow, and not to her daughter, whom he saw then for the first time, wrote Pyotr Petrovich about this.

Luzhin was sure of the helplessness of his victims. Seeing their independence and calm self-confidence, he flew into a rage. Out of anger, he threatened to leave now forever. Dunya replied that she did not want him back. Luzhin, no longer in control of himself, began to say that he had made Dunya an offer, ignoring public opinion and restoring her reputation, hoping very much for gratitude. “Now I see that I acted recklessly!” After these words, Razumikhin wanted to literally throw him out of the room, but Rodion stopped him and calmly told Luzhin to get out. He looked at him for a few seconds with a pale and distorted face, then left the room. Going down the stairs, he still assumed that this matter could be corrected.

Arriving home, Luzhin felt deep indignation against the "black ingratitude" of the bride. And meanwhile, wooing her, he was sure of the absurdity of all the gossip that went about her. But he highly appreciated his determination to elevate Dunya to himself. Speaking about this Dunya, he actually expressed his secret thought that everyone would admire him for this feat. Dunya was simply necessary for him. He had long thought with rapture of marrying a well-behaved, but certainly a poor girl, pretty and educated, very intimidated, who had experienced a lot in life, who would consider him her benefactor, obeying implicitly to him and only him. And this dream has almost come true. A proud, virtuous, well-bred girl appeared, with a development above him. And over such a creature he will have unlimited dominion! In addition, he wanted to make a career in St. Petersburg, and a wife like Dunya could attract people to him, create a halo. And this is where it all fell apart. Luzhin decided to fix it all the next day, to settle it.

In Pulcheria Alexandrovna's room everyone heatedly discussed what had happened. The mother rejoiced that God had saved her daughter from a man like Luzhin. Everyone rejoiced. Only Raskolnikov sat gloomy and motionless. He was asked to talk about Svidrigailov's proposal. He briefly conveyed the offer of money and a request for a meeting, noting that he himself had refused money for Dunya. Clearly, he most likely has bad plans in mind. Rodion admitted that Svidrigailov behaved rather strangely, with signs of insanity. Apparently, the death of Marfa Petrovna had an effect. Razumikhin promised to keep an eye on Svidrigailov in order to protect Dunya from him. Pulcheria Alexandrovna started talking about leaving Petersburg, since Luzhin was now broken. But Razumikhin invited them to stay in the city. For Marfa Petrovna's three thousand and his one thousand, which his uncle promised, they could organize their own publishing house. Everyone liked this idea.

Rodion remembered the murder and got ready to leave. “I wanted to say that it’s better for us not to see each other for a while. I will come when I can. Forget me completely. When necessary, I will come, and now, if you love me, forget it completely. Otherwise, I will hate you!”

Rodion left. Everyone was terrified of these words. Razumikhin ran to catch up with Rodion. It turned out that Raskolnikov was waiting for him at the end of the corridor. He asked a friend to be with his sister and mother tomorrow. “I will come ... if I can. Goodbye! Leave me, don't leave them! Do you understand me?" Razumikhin returned to Pulcheria Alexandrovna, calmed both of them, swore that Rodion needed to rest, promised to inform them of his condition.

Part 4 of the novel "Crime and Punishment" continues with the fact that Raskolnikov went to Sonya. Sonya's room was more like a barn. Raskolnikov spoke to her about her father, Katerina Ivanovna. I remembered that, according to Marmeladov, Katerina Ivanovna beat Sonya. She interrupted him. “No, what are you. If only you knew. After all, she is just like a child. Her mind went mad with grief.” Raskolnikov spoke about the future of Sonya and other children of Katerina Ivanovna. It is clear that Katerina Ivanovna is seriously ill and will not last long, Sonya herself may soon end up in the hospital during her work and also die. Then Polenka will only have the same path as Sonya herself, and the same end. But Sonya is sure that God will not allow such horror.

He spoke to her about God, what does he do to her because she prays to him? "Does everything!" she whispered quickly. Raskolnikov walked around the room all the time and saw a book lying on the fireplace. He took her to see. It turned out to be the New Testament. The book was old. Sonya said that Lizaveta brought this book to her, and they often read it together. Raskolnikov asked Sonya to read to him about the resurrection of Lazarus. When she finished reading, Sonya closed the book and turned away from him. Rodion said that Sonya ruined her life in order to save her relatives. Together they are cursed and now they go along the same road. He left. Sonya spent that night in a fever and delirium. Various thoughts swirled in her mind. “He must be terribly unhappy!.. He left his mother and sister ... he said that he could not live without her. Oh my God!"

Behind the door on the right, which separated Sonya's apartment from Gertrude Resslich's apartment, was an intermediate room. It had been empty for a long time, and Sonya considered it uninhabited. However, during the whole conversation, the gentleman stood at the door of the empty room and listened attentively to everything. He liked this conversation so much that he even brought a chair and placed it near the door so that it would be more convenient to listen next time. This gentleman was Svidrigailov.

The next morning Raskolnikov went to Porfiry Petrovich's office. He was ready for a new fight. Did the tradesman, who threw the word “murderer” in his face, inform or did not inform on him? He hated Porfiry and was afraid of revealing himself with this hatred. Raskolnikov thought that he would be immediately invited to the office, but he had to wait. He made a promise to himself to be silent more, to look and listen. At that moment he was called into the office.

Porfiry met the guest with the most cheerful and friendly look. “However, he extended both his hands to me, but he didn’t give me a single one,” thought Raskolnikov. Both watched each other, but as soon as their eyes met, they immediately averted their eyes. Raskolnikov said that he had brought the necessary paper about the clock. Porfiry began to talk about the fact that there was nowhere to hurry, that his apartment was behind a partition. But his words did not correspond to the serious, thinking look with which Porfiry looked at Raskolnikov. This angered him. He said that the investigators have such a trick - to talk to the suspect about trifles, and then stun him with a direct and insidious question. Porfiry began to laugh, and Raskolnikov began to laugh too, but then he stopped. It turned out that Porfiry laughed at his guest right in the face. Raskolnikov realized that there was something he did not yet know.

Porfiry said that an interrogation in the form of a free, friendly conversation can give more than an interrogation in its entirety. As a future lawyer, he gave an example to Raskolnikov: “If I consider someone a criminal, why should I start bothering him ahead of time, although I have evidence against him? Why not let him walk around the city? If I plant him too early, then I will give him moral support. Here you are talking about evidence, but evidence has two ends ... Yes, I leave another gentleman all alone, I don’t take him, don’t bother, but so that he knows every minute or suspects that I know everything, day and night I follow him . So after all, he himself will come or do something that will already be accurate evidence. Nerves... you forgot them! Let him walk around the city, and I already know that he is my victim. Where should he run? Abroad? No, the Pole is running abroad, not he. Into the depths of the fatherland? Why, real Russian peasants live there, after all, a developed, modern person would rather prefer a prison than to live with such foreigners as our peasants! He won’t run away psychologically from me, ”Porfiry reasoned.

Raskolnikov sat pale. “This is no longer a cat with a mouse, like yesterday, he is smarter. But you have no proof, you frighten me, you are cunning!” He decided to remain silent. Porfiry continued: “You, Rodion Romanovich, are a witty young man. But reality and nature are important things. Wit is a great thing, how can a poor investigator guess everything. Yes, nature helps. But the young people who are carried away will not think about this! He, let's say, will lie successfully, in the most cunning way. Yes, in the most interesting, in the most scandalous place, and he will faint ... But isn’t it stuffy for you that you have turned so pale?

Raskolnikov asked not to worry and suddenly burst out laughing. Porfiry looked at him and began to laugh with him. Raskolnikov abruptly interrupted his laughter and said seriously that now he clearly sees that Porfiry suspects him of the murder of the old woman and her sister Lizaveta. If he has a reason, then he can arrest him, and if not, then he will not allow to laugh at himself in the face. His eyes lit up with rage. "I will not let it!" shouted Raskolnikov. Porfiry made a preoccupied look and began to reassure Rodion. Then he brought his face closer to Raskolnikov and almost whispered that his words might be heard and what then to say to them? But Rodion automatically repeated this phrase. Porfiry Petrovich offered Raskolnikov water. The fright and participation of Porfiry were so natural that Raskolnikov fell silent. Porfiry began to say that Rodion had a seizure, and you need to take care of yourself. So yesterday Dmitry Prokofievich (Razumikhin) came to him and said such things that we only shrugged our shoulders. Did he deduce this from my caustic words? Did he come from you? Raskolnikov had already calmed down a little, said that Razumikhin did not come from him, but he knew why he came to Porfiry.

“I, father, don’t know your exploits like that. I know that you went to rent an apartment, rang the bell, asked about the blood, confused the workers and the janitor. I understand your mental mood at the time, but you will drive yourself crazy like that. Your indignation from insults at first, from fate, and then from the quarter is already very seething. Here you are rushing about to make everyone talk, and end this as soon as possible. Did I guess your mood? Why, you will not only spin yourself, but also Razumikhin, because he is a very kind person. Raskolnikov looked with surprise at Porfiry, who was courting him. He continued: “Yes, I had such a case. One also riveted murder on himself, summed up the facts, confused everyone and everyone. He himself unintentionally became the cause of the murder, as soon as he found out that he had given the killers a reason, he became so homesick, it began to seem to him that it was he who had killed. But the Senate sorted this matter out, and the unfortunate man was acquitted. So you can get a fever if you go to the bells at night to ring, and ask about blood. This is a disease, Rodion Romanovich!”

Raskolnikov no longer understood the course of Porfiry's reasoning, what was the catch. He insisted that he went to the old woman's apartment in full consciousness, and not in delirium. Porfiry claimed that Raskolnikov deliberately said that he knew about Razumikhin's visit to Porfiry and insisted on the conscious coming to the old woman's apartment. Porfiry believed that Raskolnikov was playing a subtle game with him. “I won’t let myself be tortured, arrest me, search me all over, but don’t play with me!” Rodion shouted furiously. Porfiry answered this with his sly smile, that he invited Raskolnikov in a homely, friendly way. In a frenzy, Raskolnikov shouted that he did not need this friendship. “Here, I’ll take my hat and leave. Well, what do you say now? He grabbed his cap and went to the door. "Don't you want to see the surprise?" giggled Porfiry, stopping him near the door. “Surprise, here he is sitting outside my door,” he continued. "You lie and tease me to give me away!" shouted Rodion, trying to open the door behind which Porfiry's "surprise" was sitting. “Yes, it’s already impossible to give yourself away, father. After all, you have come into a frenzy!” "You're all lying! You have no facts, only guesses!” shouted Rodion.

At that moment, a noise was heard and something happened that neither Porfiry nor Rodion could count on. A pale man burst into the room after a short struggle at the door. He was young, dressed like a commoner. It was the painter Nikolai, who was painting the floor in the apartment on the floor below, in the house of the murdered pawnbroker. He said that he had killed the old woman and Lizaveta. This message was completely unexpected for Porfiry. Nikolai said that he was delusional and he killed both women with an axe. And he ran down the stairs to divert eyes after the murder. “He doesn’t speak his own words,” muttered Porfiry. He caught himself and, taking Raskolnikov by the hand, pointed to the door. "You didn't expect this?" asked Rodion, who had greatly cheered up after the appearance of Nikolai. “Yes, and you, father, did not expect. Look how the pen is trembling!”

Raskolnikov went out, passing through the office, he saw both janitors from the old woman's house. On the stairs he was stopped by Porfiry, who said that they would need to talk again in full form, and they would see each other again. Rodion went home. He understood that it would soon become clear that Nikolai was lying. But his confession gave Rodion some respite in the fight against the clever Porfiry. At home, Raskolnikov kept thinking about his conversation in the office. Finally, he got up to go to Marmeladov's funeral, and then suddenly the door to his room opened by itself. On the threshold stood yesterday's man, as if from under the ground. Raskolnikov died. The man paused and then silently bowed to Rodion. He asked to be forgiven for his "evil thoughts." It turned out that this tradesman was standing at the gate during Rodion's conversation with the janitors. After this conversation, he went after Rodion and found out his name and address. With this he went to the investigator and told him everything. He sat behind a closed door during a conversation between Rodion and Porfiry and heard how "he tortured him." The tradesman was the surprise that Porfiry spoke of. Hearing the confession of Nikolai, the tradesman realized that he was mistaken, considering Rodion a murderer, and came to ask his forgiveness. Rodion's heart was relieved. This meant that Porfiry still did not have any hard evidence of Rodion's guilt. Rodion felt more confident. "Now we'll fight again!" he thought with a grin as he descended the stairs.