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Краткое содержание: Crime and Punishment
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 10 parts
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A starving student plots a killing in his Petersburg garret and counts the steps to a pawnbroker's door.
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Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 13 h 20 min10 h 35 min fast, 15 h 55 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 190 8008 chapters
- Страницы
- Страниц: 570
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Сложное чтение long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- Первая публикация
- 1866by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Crime and Punishment in short
Crime and Punishment follows one young man from a hungry garret to a deed he planned in secret. Raskolnikov believes that a strong mind may step over the law for a great purpose. The book tests that belief against the real weight of what he does, in fever, in conversation, and in the pull of other people.
What Crime and Punishment is about
What would you do if one idea took hold of your mind and refused to let go? In Crime and Punishment, a penniless student named Raskolnikov walks seven hundred and thirty steps from his rented garret to a pawnbroker's door. He cannot tell whether he is rehearsing a crime or only playing with a thought.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote this novel in Russia in the 1860s, in a Petersburg of heat, dust and taverns. He builds it around a bold question. Can a clever person decide that some lives do not count, and then go on living with that decision? You meet the people who pull Raskolnikov toward others, hear the theory that drives him, and see how Dostoyevsky tells the tale.
Для кого. For readers who love stories that live inside a character's head, enjoy moral questions argued in vivid scenes, and are drawn to feverish nights and cat and mouse talk between a guilty man and a clever investigator.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A student rehearses a plan he fears
The novel opens on a hot July evening in Petersburg. A young man slips out of his garret, taking care to avoid his landlady, whom he owes money. He is Rodion Raskolnikov, a former law student who left the university because he could not pay. He has eaten almost nothing for two days.
He is on his way to rehearse something. He has counted the steps to the door of Alyona Ivanovna, an old moneylender who lends small sums against watches and rings. Today he brings his father's silver watch. While she searches for her keys, he notes where she keeps them.
Back in the street he calls the whole idea loathsome and vile. A glass of beer in a tavern makes him feel better, and he decides it was only weakness from hunger. Yet even he senses that this happy mood is unnatural.
A person who keeps rehearsing a secret plan is already being shaped by it.
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A drunken clerk shows him a family in ruin
In that same tavern, Raskolnikov meets Marmeladov, a drunken former clerk who talks to him as if they were old friends.
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A letter from home tightens the knot
The next morning Nastasya, the landlady's servant, brings him a thick letter from his mother.
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A dream of a beaten horse almost saves him
Worn out and feverish, Raskolnikov walks to the islands of the Neva, drinks a glass of vodka, and falls asleep in the bushes.
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The axe falls and a narrow escape follows
On the evening itself, nothing goes as he planned.
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Fever, friends, and a slip at the police office
The next morning a porter hands Raskolnikov a summons to the police station.
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His family arrives and an investigator waits
After the restaurant, Raskolnikov revisits the murder scene, rings the old bell again, and asks the workmen about the blood.
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The theory of the man who may step over
At the heart of the book lies Raskolnikov's idea, and Porfiry draws it out.
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Sonia shows another way to live
Against the theory stands Sonia, the daughter of the drunken clerk.
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How Dostoyevsky tells it from inside the mind
The story is told in the third person, but it stays so close to Raskolnikov that the reader almost breathes with him.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Rodion Raskolnikov A proud, penniless former student who builds a theory about extraordinary men and wants to prove to himself that he belongs among them.
- Sonia Marmeladov A gentle, devout young woman who supports her stepmother and the small children, and whose faith sustains her compassion.
- Razumihin Raskolnikov's loyal, boisterous university friend, poor but warm, who nurses him and protects his family without being asked.
- Porfiry Petrovitch The cheerful, talkative head of the investigation, who prefers conversation and psychology to force and watches Raskolnikov closely.
- Dounia Raskolnikov's strong-willed sister, who agrees to a doubtful marriage to help her family and who guards her brother's honor.
- Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin A vain, calculating lawyer who wants a poor, grateful wife and resents anyone who sees through him.
- Svidrigaïlov A restless, charming landowner with a dark past, who follows Dounia to Petersburg and seems to know more than he should.
- Katerina Ivanovna Sonia's proud, consumptive stepmother, who clings to memories of a genteel past while struggling to feed three small children.
How it ends (spoiler)
Raskolnikov goes to the police and confesses to both murders. Sonia follows him to Siberia, where he serves his sentence of hard labor among convicts who distrust him but love her. His family suffers too: his mother dies, and Dounia marries Razumihin. In the prison, after illness, Raskolnikov at last weeps at Sonia's feet and feels love move in him. The book closes on the first hint of a new life.
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Вопросы о книге Crime and Punishment
What is Crime and Punishment about?
It follows Raskolnikov, a poor student in Petersburg who plans a murder to prove his theory about extraordinary people. The novel explores his guilt, his fear of being caught, and the people who draw him toward honesty and compassion.
Who is Sonia in Crime and Punishment?
Sonia is the gentle daughter of the clerk Marmeladov. She has turned to a painful trade to feed her family. Her faith and kindness make her the moral center of the book, and Raskolnikov turns to her.
What is Raskolnikov's theory about extraordinary people?
He argues that humanity divides into ordinary people, who obey the law, and extraordinary people, who may step over it for a great idea. He cites figures like Napoleon, and he tests the idea on himself.
Is Crime and Punishment a true story?
It is fiction, published in the 1860s. Dostoyevsky drew on the real streets, taverns and tenements of Petersburg and on the ideas of his day, but Raskolnikov and his crime are invented.
Is Crime and Punishment easy to read?
Its story pulls a reader along through short, vivid scenes, with a murder, a detective-style duel and warm, memorable characters. Conversations drive much of the action, so the ideas arrive through people rather than lectures.
Как сослаться на это издание
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/crime-and-punishment.
Dostoyevsky, F. (2026). Crime and punishment. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/crime-and-punishment (Original work published 1866)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/crime-and-punishment.
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