Crime and punishment chapter 5 summary. Questions and assignments for lessons
He convinces: no, I only hit her twice with a whip, for which she was even glad (“a person in general, and especially a woman, loves to be insulted very, very much, did you notice this?”), And then apoplexy happened to Marfa Petrovna. (See the full text of Raskolnikov's conversation with Svidrigailov.)
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Svidrigailov is very simple and talkative, but at the same time he is somehow strangely thoughtful. He tells Raskolnikov how eight years ago he “valandals” in St. Petersburg, and was also a cheater. He ended up in prison for debts - and then Marfa Petrovna turned up, five years older than him. She bought him out of prison for 30,000, took him to the village, combined with her marriage, but all her life she kept a document against him in these 30,000, so as not to take it into her head to rebel. And now she had come to him three times as a ghost. Once she said: “A little honor to you that, without having time to bury your wife, you immediately went to marry again.”
Previously, Svidrigailov was a ghost of a courtyard man who belonged to him, who hanged himself out of resentment at his ridicule. Svidrigailov explains ghosts as "scraps of other worlds" that appear to those people in which the normal order in the body is disturbed. He asks Raskolnikov: did he think about eternity in the future, afterlife. “It all seems to us something huge, but what if there will be just one room there, like a village bath, smoky, and spiders in all corners?” He mentions that he is going to go on a long journey.
Finally, Svidrigailov starts talking about the business with which he came. Dunya marries the rich man Luzhin, but he is no match for her. She just sacrifices herself for the sake of the family. “I would like to see her, dissuade her from marrying Luzhin and offer in return 10 thousand rubles, which I have now are free, but if she doesn’t accept, I’ll probably use them even more stupidly. I do it all disinterestedly, out of respect for her. I no longer feel anything for Dunya, although until recently I wanted to ask for her hand. I'm thinking of marrying someone else soon. Arrange for me only one last meeting with her, otherwise I will have to achieve it in other ways.
Raskolnikov refuses. He asks where Svidrigailov was going to go, but he, in a strange way, seemed to have already forgotten about his travel plans. He reports that Marfa Petrovna also bequeathed to Dunya three thousand, which can be received in two or three weeks.
Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment", part 4, chapter 2 - summary
“Your brother offended me, suspecting that I would marry a poor woman only in order to then have despotic power over her,” grumbles Luzhin. “And you lied in your note about my behavior in the Marmeladovs’ apartment!” Raskolnikov replies angrily.
Dunya and mother protect Rodion. Luzhin begins to hint that they are so bold when they learn about the three thousand bequeathed by Marfa Petrovna, and even, perhaps, they are waiting for profitable offers from Svidrigailov. "Aren't you ashamed now, sister?" Raskolnikov turns to Dunya. "Shame on you, Rodya! - answers Dunya and drives Luzhin. “Pyotr Petrovich, get out!”
Luzhin threatens: "Avdotya Romanovna, if I go out through this door now, I will never turn back." But this does not frighten anyone, and he leaves with vicious hatred.
Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment", part 4, chapter 3 - summary
Luzhin did not expect such a denouement. Dunya needs him. Having recently moved to St. Petersburg, he knows that a beautiful wife can be very useful in order to advance faster in this city. And her poverty will be a guarantee of humility in marriage. Luzhin is annoyed that this plan of his has collapsed. However, he does not believe that the break with Dunya is irreparable, and thinks about a way to fix everything.
Dunya, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, and Razumikhin, who is especially in love with Dunya, rejoice at Luzhin's departure. Raskolnikov reports that Svidrigailov asks for a last meeting with Dunya in order to give her ten thousand. He talks about the signs of his insanity, about the plans for a "journey", immediately forgotten. "He's up to something terrible!" Dunya guesses.
Razumikhin persuades Dunya and Pulcheria Alexandrovna to stay in St. Petersburg and become financial partners with him for printing translated books. Raskolnikov approves of this plan, but he himself suddenly gets up to leave. “I will come later… when… it will be possible. I remember and love you... Leave me alone!.. Forget me completely... When necessary, I will come myself or... I will call you. Maybe everything will be resurrected! .. "
His mother is suddenly close to fainting. Dunya is angry. Razumikhin flees Raskolnikov. He throws him: “Don’t ask me anything… Don’t come to me… Leave me, and… don’t leave them. Do you understand me?"
Razumikhin looks at his friend - and starts to guess. Raskolnikov leaves, and Razumikhin runs to calm Dunya and his mother - and since then he has become their son and brother.
Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment", part 4, chapter 4 - summary
“I left my relatives today, my mother and sister,” Raskolnikov says with wild determination. “Now I have only you. We are both cursed. You too crossed... You ruined life... my(it's all the same!) Let's go further together along the same road.
"What, what to do?" Sonya screams, wringing her hands hysterically. “To break what is necessary, once for all - and take on the suffering! he answers her. - Freedom and power, and most importantly power! Over all the trembling creature and over the whole anthill! .. Maybe I'm with you in last time I say. If I come tomorrow, I will tell you who killed Lizaveta.”
Raskolnikov leaves. Sonya still does not understand anything. And in the wall of her room is a locked door to the neighboring apartment of the German Resslich. And behind her, Svidrigailov overheard their entire conversation with Raskolnikov. He liked the conversation, and he decided to eavesdrop on them further.
Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment", part 4, chapter 5 - summary
The next day, in the morning, Raskolnikov goes to the police station, to Porfiry. He finds the investigator in the office alone and very excited, "as if he had suddenly been confused or caught on something very secluded and secretive." In the back wall of the office is a locked door.
“I brought you a piece of paper about the clock,” says Raskolnikov. Porfiry takes a piece of paper and absent-mindedly mumbles about some trifles. “Do you want to entertain me with trifles, and then stun me in the very crown with some fatal and dangerous question?” Raskolnikov snarls angrily. (See the full text of Raskolnikov's second conversation with Porfiry.)
Porfiry bursts into laughter, swaying all over. Raskolnikov looks him in the eyes with hatred. “Yesterday you expressed a desire that I come for some kind of interrogation. I have come - interrogate me or let me leave." Irritated to the point of screaming: "I'm tired of all this, sir, you hear ... I was partly ill from this."
Porfiry, running around the room: “Lord! Don't worry! Put the cap aside, sir. Five minutes of time why not sit with a friend for fun. Do you know, Rodion Romanovich, I am obliged to arrest another criminal as soon as possible, and if I imprison another immediately, then, perhaps, realizing definitely that he is already a prisoner, he will leave me in his shell. And if I leave some gentleman all alone, but so that he suspects every minute that I know everything, so, by God, he will spin, he will come and, perhaps, also do something that is already a mathematical form of proof will have. Especially if it is a modern and developed person. It will be around me, like a butterfly around a candle, spinning; freedom will not be sweet, it will begin to think, get confused, confuse itself all around. He himself will prepare some mathematical trick for me, like twice two, - just give him only a longer intermission. You, Rodion Romanovich, are a young man, and therefore you value the human mind above all else. This is exactly like the old Austrian gofkriegsrat: on paper, they defeated Napoleon and took him to the full, and in the office, they calculated everything in the most ingenious way, and you look, General Mack surrenders with his entire army, heh- hehe! The young people who are carried away by wit, "walking through all obstacles" (as you yourself put it) will not even think about this. A person will lie in the most cunning manner, and then in the most scandalous place he will faint. Or he will start fooling a person who suspects him, and suddenly turn pale - but too naturally. He himself will begin to run ahead, will begin to poke his head where they don’t ask, to talk incessantly about what he needs, to be silent. He himself will come to ask: why don’t they take me for a long time? heh heh heh!"
Raskolnikov unexpectedly begins to laugh, and then abruptly stops laughing. “I finally see clearly that you suspect me of murder. Then arrest me, but I will not allow myself to laugh in my eyes and torture myself.” He hits the table with his fist, but then instinctively turns to a whisper: “I won’t let it, I won’t let it!”
Porfiry rushes to him with a decanter. “Yes, Rodion Romanovich, I don’t know your exploits like that. After all, I know how you went to rent an apartment, but they began to ring the bell, and they asked about blood ... Resentment is boiling in you very much, sir, noble, sir, from the insults received, from fate, so you are rushing about hither and thither. After all, sometimes a person is drawn to jump out of a window or from a bell tower, and the feeling is so seductive. But believe me: I truly love you and sincerely wish you well.
Raskolnikov is shocked. But he takes control. Proudly, contemptuously, throws: “In a word, I want to know: do you recognize me completely free from suspicion or not?” “What: you can’t bear the unknown any longer?”
Raskolnikov again slams his fist on the table. “Here, I take my cap and go. Well, what do you say now, if you intend to arrest?
He goes to the door, but Porfiry shouts at his back: “Don’t you want to see the surprise? He's right here at my door." “You’re lying all over, damned open chinel! - Raskolnikov screams frantically. “You wanted to irritate me, to the point of madness, so that I would give myself away!” No, you give facts, not conjectures!
Suddenly there is a loud noise at the front door to Porfiry's office...
Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment", part 4, chapter 6 - summary
After pushing someone away, the young painter Nikolai, arrested in the case of the murder of an old woman, enters the office. "I'm a killer! Alena Ivanovna and Lizaveta I ... killed ... with an ax, - he repents, kneeling down. “Mitka is not involved, and then he ran down the stairs with him to avert eyes.”
"He doesn't speak his own words!" Porfiry cries out, looking at Nikolai. But the tone changes. Porfiry no longer holds Raskolnikov, but gently escorts him away from himself. “But won’t you show the surprise?” - he sneers. Porfiry chuckles: “Rodion Romanovich, after all, according to the form, you still have to ask about something, sir ... so we will see each other again.”
Arriving home, Raskolnikov throws himself on the sofa. He understands that Mikolka's confession will most likely be considered false - and they will again take up himself. But at least there is a delay. He wonders: what kind of surprise did Porfiry have?
After lying down, Raskolnikov gets up and is about to go to the wake of Marmeladov to Katerina Ivanovna. But as soon as he wants to open the door of his closet, it opens itself. And on the threshold - the figure of yesterday's man, as from underground!
He bows to Raskolnikov almost to the floor. "Guilty before you! In evil thoughts. He explains: he is from the house where the murder took place. I saw how Raskolnikov, after “hiring an apartment”, argued with the janitors. He suspected that he was a murderer, went to the police station and told Porfiry about Raskolnikov's visit. He was a "surprise" in Porfiry's office. But sitting outside the door and hearing how the investigator “tortured” Rodion with his suspicions, and he indignantly objected to him, he came to the conclusion: Raskolnikov is innocent.
The tradesman bows again and leaves. Raskolnikov is stunned: therefore, Porfiry has no direct evidence, but one psychology!
Angry that he almost killed himself out of weakness.
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Lebeziatnikov looked alarmed.
- I'm here for you, Sofya Semyonovna. Excuse me... I thought I'd catch you," he suddenly turned to Raskolnikov, "that is, I didn't think anything... of that sort... but I just thought... Katerina Ivanovna went crazy there," he suddenly snapped to Sonya, leaving Raskolnikov.
Sonya screamed.
Crime and Punishment. Feature film 1969 episode 2
“That is, at least it seems so. However... We don't know what to do there, that's what! She came back - it seems that they kicked her out from somewhere, maybe they beat her up ... at least, it seems so ... She ran to the head Semyon Zakharych, did not find her at home; he dined with some general too ... Imagine, she waved to where they dined ... to this other general, and, imagine, she insisted, called the chief Semyon Zakharych, yes, it seems, even from the table. You can imagine what happened there. She was expelled, of course; and she says that she herself scolded him and let something into him. It can even be assumed ... how did they not take her? - I don't understand! Now she tells everyone, and Amalia Ivanovna, but it’s hard to understand, she screams and beats ... Oh, yes: she says and shouts that since everyone has now abandoned her, she will take the children and go out into the street, carry a hurdy-gurdy, and the children will sing and dance, and she too, and collect money, and every day go under the window to the general ... “Let them, he says, see how the noble children of an official father walk the streets as beggars!” He beats all the children, they cry. He teaches Lenya to sing "Khutorok", the boy to dance, Polina Mikhailovna too, tears all the dresses; makes them some kind of hats, like actors; she herself wants to carry a basin to beat, instead of music ... She doesn’t listen to anything ... Imagine how it is? It's just not possible!
Lebeziatnikov would have gone on and on, but Sonya, who was listening to him with barely a breath, suddenly grabbed her mantle and hat and ran out of the room, dressing on the run. Raskolnikov went out after her, Lebeziatnikov behind him.
- I definitely messed up! - he said to Raskolnikov, going out with him into the street, - I just didn’t want to frighten Sofya Semyonovna and said: “it seems”, but there is no doubt. These, they say, are such tubercles, in consumption, they jump up on the brain * ; I'm sorry I don't know medicine. However, I tried to convince her, but she does not listen to anything.
- Did you tell her about the tubercles?
- That is, not quite about the tubercles. Besides, she wouldn't understand a thing. But I'm talking about this: if you convince a person logically that, in essence, he has nothing to cry about, then he will stop crying. It is clear. And your belief that it will not stop?
“It would be too easy to live then,” Raskolnikov answered.
- Allow, allow; of course, it is rather difficult for Katerina Ivanovna to understand; but do you know that serious experiments were already taking place in Paris with regard to the possibility of curing lunatics, acting solely on logical conviction? One professor there, recently deceased, a serious scientist, imagined that it was possible to treat in this way. His main idea is that there is no particular disorder in the body of madmen, but that madness is, so to speak, a logical error, an error in judgment, an incorrect view of things. He gradually refuted the patient and, imagine, he achieved, they say, results! But since at the same time he also used souls, the results of this treatment are, of course, subject to doubt ... At least, it seems so ...
Raskolnikov had not heard from him for a long time. As he drew level with his house, he nodded his head to Lebezyatnikov and turned into the gateway. Lebezyatnikov woke up, looked around and ran on.
Raskolnikov went into his closet and stood in the middle of it. "Why did he come back here?" He looked at that yellowish, shabby wallpaper, that dust, his couch... From the yard came some kind of sharp, uninterrupted knocking; something seemed to be driven in somewhere, some kind of nail ... He went to the window, stood on tiptoe and for a long time, with an air of extreme attention, looked out in the yard. But the yard was empty, and there were no knockers to be seen. To the left, in the wing, one could see here and there open windows; on the windowsills stood pots of watery geraniums. Linen was hung outside the windows ... He knew all this by heart. He turned away and sat down on the sofa.
Never, never had he felt so terribly alone!
Yes, he felt once again that he might really hate Sonya, and just now, when he made her more unhappy. “Why did he go to her to ask for her tears? Why does he need to eat up her life so much? Oh, meanness!
- I'll be alone! he suddenly said resolutely, “and she won’t go to jail!”
After about five minutes he raised his head and smiled strangely. It was a strange thought: “Perhaps it is really better in penal servitude,” he suddenly thought.
He did not remember how long he sat in his room, with vague thoughts crowding in his head. Suddenly the door opened and Avdotya Romanovna entered. She first stopped and looked at him from the threshold, just as he had looked at Sonya; then she already went and sat down opposite him on a chair, in her place yesterday. He silently and somehow without thought looked at her.
“Don’t be angry, brother, I’m only for one minute,” Dunya said. Her expression was thoughtful, but not stern. The look was clear and quiet. He saw that this one came to him with love.
- Brother, now I know everything, all. Dmitri Prokofich explained everything to me and told me. You are being persecuted and tortured on a stupid and vile suspicion... Dmitri Prokofitch told me that there was no danger and that you should not accept it with such horror. I don't think so and quite understand how indignant everything is in you and that this indignation can leave traces forever. This is what I'm afraid of. Because you left us, I do not judge you and do not dare to judge, and forgive me that I reproached you before. I myself feel that if I had such a great grief, I would also leave everyone. mother i about it I will not tell you anything, but I will talk about you continuously and I will say on your behalf that you will come very soon. Don't worry about her; I I will calm her down; but don’t torture her either, come at least once; remember that she is a mother! And now I just came to say (Dunya began to rise from her seat) that if, in case, you need me for anything or you need ... my whole life, or something ... then call me, I will come. Goodbye!
She turned abruptly and walked towards the door.
- Dunya! - Raskolnikov stopped her, got up and went up to her, - this Razumikhin, Dmitry Prokofich, is very good man.
Dunya blushed a little.
- Well! she asked after waiting a minute.
- He is a businessman, hardworking, honest and capable of much love ... Farewell, Dunya.
Dunya flushed all over, then suddenly became alarmed:
“What is it, brother, are we really parting forever that you… make such wills to me?”
“Anyway… goodbye.
He turned away and walked away from her to the window. She stood, looked at him uneasily, and went out in alarm.
No, he was not cold towards her. There was one moment (the very last) when he had a terrible desire to hug her tightly and say goodbye with her and even to tell, but he did not even dare to shake hands with her:
“Then, perhaps, she will shudder when she remembers that I now hugged her, she will say that I stole her kiss!”
"And survive this or won't it last? he added after a few minutes to himself. - No, it will not stand; sort of can't stand it! These never endure…”
And he thought of Sonya.
There was a breath of freshness from the window. Outside, the light was no longer so bright. He suddenly took his cap and went out.
He, of course, could not, and did not want to take care of his morbid condition. But all this incessant anxiety and all this spiritual horror could not pass without consequences. And if he was not yet lying in a real fever, then perhaps precisely because this inner, uninterrupted anxiety still kept him on his feet and conscious, but somehow artificially, for the time being.
He wandered aimlessly. The sun was setting. Some kind of special melancholy began to affect him in recent times. There was nothing especially caustic, burning in it; but something constant, eternal emanated from her, the hopeless years of this cold, deadening melancholy were foreseen, some kind of eternity was foreseen in the "yard of space." In the evening, this feeling usually began to torment him even more strongly.
- Here with some kind of stupid, purely physical infirmities, depending on some kind of sunset, and refrain from doing stupid things! Not only to Sonya, but to Dunya you will go! he muttered hatefully.
They called him. He looked back; Lebeziatnikov rushed to him.
- Imagine, I was with you, looking for you. Imagine, she fulfilled her intention and took the children away! Sofya Semyonovna and I found them with difficulty. She beats the frying pan herself, makes the children sing and dance. The children are crying. They stop at crossroads and at shops. Stupid people run after them. Let's go.
- And Sonya? .. - Raskolnikov asked anxiously, hurrying after Lebeziatnikov.
- Just in a frenzy. That is, not Sofya Semyonovna in a frenzy, but Katerina Ivanovna; and by the way, Sofya Semyonovna is in a frenzy. And Katerina Ivanovna is completely in a frenzy. I'm telling you, I'm totally crazy. They will be taken to the police. You can imagine how it will work ... They are now on the ditch at the bridge, very close to Sofya Semyonovna. Close.
On the ditch, not very far from the bridge and not reaching two houses from the house where Sonya lived, a handful of people crowded. Boys and girls especially came running. The hoarse, strained voice of Katerina Ivanovna could still be heard from the bridge. And indeed, it was a strange spectacle that could interest the street audience. Katerina Ivanovna, in her old dress, in her dreadlock's shawl, and in her broken straw hat, which had strayed to one side in an ugly ball, was really in a real frenzy. She was tired and out of breath. Her exhausted, consumptive face looked more miserable than ever (besides, on the street, in the sun, a consumptive always seems more sick and disfigured than at home); but her excited state did not cease, and every minute she became more irritated. She rushed to the children, shouted at them, persuaded them, taught them right there in front of the people how to dance and what to sing, began to explain to them what it was for, fell into despair at their dullness, beat them ... Then, without finishing, she rushed to public if she noticed a slightly well-dressed person who stopped to look, she immediately set off to explain to him that, they say, this is what children “from a noble, one might even say, aristocratic house” have been reduced to. If she heard laughter in the crowd or some kind of bullying word, she immediately pounced on the impudent ones and began to scold them. Some actually laughed, others shook their heads; in general, everyone was curious to look at the crazy woman with frightened children. The frying pan that Lebeziatnikov was talking about was not there; at least Raskolnikov did not see; but instead of knocking on the frying pan, Katerina Ivanovna began to clap her dry palms to the beat when she made Polechka sing and Lenya and Kolya dance; moreover, she even began to sing along herself, but each time she broke off on the second note from an excruciating cough, which made her despair again, cursed her cough, and even cried. Most of all, Kolya and Leni's crying and fear drove her crazy. Indeed, there was an attempt to dress up children in a costume, as street singers and singers dress up. The boy was wearing a turban made of something red and white, so that he portrayed himself as a Turk. There were not enough suits for Lenya; only a red hat (or, better, a cap) knitted from a garus was put on the head of the late Semyon Zakharych, and a piece of a white ostrich feather, which belonged to Katerina Ivanovna's grandmother and has been preserved until now in a chest, in the form of a family rarity, was stuck in the hat. Polechka was in her usual dress. She looked at her mother timidly and lost, did not leave her side, concealed her tears, guessed at her mother's insanity, and looked around uneasily. The street and the crowd frightened her terribly. Sonya followed Katerina Ivanovna relentlessly, weeping and begging her to return home every minute. But Katerina Ivanovna was inexorable.
“Stop it, Sonya, stop it!” she shouted quickly, hurriedly, panting and coughing. “You don’t know what you are asking for, like a child!” I already told you I'm not going back to that drunk German woman. Let everyone, all of Petersburg, see how the children of a noble father beg for alms, who served faithfully and truthfully all his life and, one might say, died in the service. (Katerina Ivanovna has already managed to create this fantasy for herself and believe it blindly). Let, let this worthless general see. Yes, and you are stupid, Sonya: what is there now, tell me? We've tortured you enough, I don't want more! Oh, Rodion Romanych, it's you! she cried, seeing Raskolnikov and rushing towards him, “please explain to this fool that nothing can be done smarter!” Even organ-grinders get their money, and everyone will immediately distinguish us, they will find out that we are a poor noble family of orphans, reduced to poverty, and this general will lose his place, you will see! Every day we will walk under the windows to him, and the sovereign will pass by, I will kneel, I will put all of them forward and show them: “Protect, father!” He is the father of orphans, he is merciful, he will protect, you will see, and this general's little… Lenya! tenez vous droite! You, Kolya, will now dance again. What are you whining about? Whimpers again! Well, what are you afraid of, fool! God! what am I to do with them, Rodion Romanovitch! If only you knew how stupid they are! Well, what do you do with these!
And she herself, almost crying (which did not interfere with her incessant and incessant patter), pointed to the whimpering children. Raskolnikov tried to convince her to return and even said, thinking to act on her pride, that it was indecent for her to walk the streets like organ grinders walk, because she was preparing herself to be the headmistress of a noble boarding school for girls ...
- Boarding house, ha-ha-ha! Glorious tambourines beyond the mountains! cried Katerina Ivanovna, coughing up a cough immediately after laughter. “No, Rodion Romanych, the dream is gone! They all abandoned us!.. And this general... You know, Rodion Romanych, I put an inkwell at him, - here, in the footman's room, by the way, she stood on the table, near the sheet on which they signed, and I signed, let it go, and ran away. Oh, vile, vile. Don't care; now I will feed these myself, I will not bow to anyone! We've tortured her enough! (She pointed to Sonya). Polechka, how much did you collect, show me? How? Just two pennies? Oh vile! They don't give us anything, they just run after us with their tongues out! Why is this idiot laughing? (she pointed to one of the crowd). It's all because this Kolya is so slow-witted, fuss with him! What do you want, Polechka? Speak to me in French, parlez-moi français. After all, I taught you, after all, you know a few phrases! .. Otherwise, how can you distinguish that you are of a noble family, well-bred children, and not at all like all organ grinders; we are not presenting some kind of “Petrushka” on the streets, but we will sing a noble romance ... Oh yes! what are we to sing? You keep interrupting me, and we ... you see, we stopped here, Rodion Romanych, to choose what to sing - such that even Kolya could dance ... because we have all this, you can imagine, without preparation; we need to come to an agreement so that everything is completely rehearsed, and then we will go to Nevsky, where there are many more people of high society and we will immediately be noticed: Lenya knows “Khutorok” ... Only everything is “Khutorok” and “Khutorok”, and everyone sings it! We should sing something much more noble... Well, what did you come up with, Polya, if only you could help your mother! I have no memory, I would remember! Not "A hussar is leaning on a saber" to sing *, in fact! Ah, let's sing "Cinq sous" in French! * After all, I taught you, I taught you. And most importantly, since it is in French, they will immediately see that you are noble children, and it will be much more touching ... You could even: “Malborough s" en va-t-en guerre ", since this is a completely children's song and is used in all aristocratic houses when children are being lulled to sleep.
Malborough s "en va-t-en guerre,
Ne sait quand revendra… –
she began to sing... - But no, Cinq sous is better! Well, Kolya, hands to your hips, hurry up, and you, Lenya, also turn in the opposite direction, and Polechka and I will sing along and clap!
Cinq sauce, cinq sauce
Pour monter notre menage…
Hee-hee-hee! (And she rolled over with a cough). Straighten your dress, Polechka, the shoulders are down, - she noticed through a cough, resting. - Now you especially need to behave decently and on a thin leg, so that everyone can see that you are noble children. I said then that the bra should be cut longer and, moreover, in two panels. It was you then, Sonya, with your advice: “In short, in short,” so it turned out that they completely disfigured the child ... Well, again, you are all crying! Why are you stupid! Well, Kolya, start quickly, quickly, quickly - oh, what an intolerable child! ..
Cinq sauce, cinq sauce...
Soldier again! Well, what do you need?
Indeed, a policeman was pushing his way through the crowd. But at the same time one gentleman in a uniform and overcoat, a respectable official of about fifty, with an order around his neck (the latter was very pleasant to Katerina Ivanovna and influenced the policeman), approached and silently handed Katerina Ivanovna a three-ruble green credit card. His face expressed sincere compassion. Katerina Ivanovna received him and bowed politely, even ceremoniously.
“Thank you, sir,” she began haughtily, “the reasons that prompted us ... take the money, Polechka. You see, there are noble and
generous people, immediately ready to help a poor noblewoman in misfortune. You see, dear sir, noble orphans, one might even say, with the most aristocratic connections ... And this general was sitting and eating grouse ... stamping his feet that I worried him ... “Your Excellency, I say, protect the orphans, knowing very well, I say, the late Semyon Zakharycha, and since own daughter the meanest of the scoundrels slandered him on the day of his death...” That soldier again! Protect! she shouted to the official, “why is this soldier climbing up to me? We already ran away from one here from Meshchanskaya ... well, what do you care, fool!
“That’s why it’s forbidden on the streets, sir. Don't be rude.
- You yourself are a bastard! I still go with a hurdy-gurdy, what do you care?
- As for the hurdy-gurdy, you need to have permission, but you yourself, sir, and in such a manner, bring down the people. Where would you like to lodge?
- How, permission! yelled Katerina Ivanovna. - I buried my husband today, what permission is there!
“Madame, madam, calm down,” the official began, “let’s go, I’ll bring you up ... It’s indecent here in the crowd ... you are unwell ...
“Dear sir, dignified sir, you don’t know anything! - Katerina Ivanovna shouted, - we will go to Nevsky, - Sonya, Sonya! Where is she? Also crying! What's the matter with you all!.. Kolya, Lenya, where are you going? she suddenly cried out in fright, “oh foolish children! Kolya, Lenya, where are they!..
It so happened that Kolya and Lenya, frightened to the last degree by the street crowd and the antics of a crazy mother, finally seeing a soldier who wanted to take them and lead them somewhere, suddenly, as if by agreement, grabbed each other by the arms and rushed to run. With a cry and a cry, poor Katerina Ivanovna rushed to catch up with them. It was ugly and pitiful to look at her, running, crying, suffocating. Sonya and Polechka rushed after her.
- Gate, gate them, Sonya! O foolish, ungrateful children!.. Fields! catch them... For you, I...
She stumbled as she ran and fell.
- Crashed into blood! Oh my God! Sonya screamed, leaning over her.
Everyone ran, everyone crowded around. Raskolnikov and Lebeziatnikov ran up from the first; The official also hurried, followed by the policeman, grumbling: "Eh-ma!" and waving his hand, foreseeing that things would turn out troublesome.
– Went! go! - He dispersed the people crowding around.
- Dying! someone shouted.
- She gone crazy! another said.
- Lord, save! one woman said, crossing herself. - Were the girl and the boy angry? Wow, they’re leading, the eldest intercepted ... Look, balmoshnye!
But when they took a good look at Katerina Ivanovna, they saw that she had not at all been smashed against a stone, as Sonya thought, but that blood, staining the pavement, gushed from her chest in her throat.
“I know that, I saw it,” the official muttered to Raskolnikov and Lebezyatnikov, “it’s consumption, sir; blood will gush out and crush. With one of my relatives, until recently I was a witness, and that way a glass and a half ... all of a sudden ... What, however, to do, now he will die?
- Here, here, to me! - Sonya pleaded, - this is where I live! .. This is the house, the second from here ... To me, quickly, quickly! .. - she rushed to everyone. “Send for the doctor… Oh, my God!
Through the efforts of the official, this matter was settled, even the policeman helped transfer Katerina Ivanovna. They brought her to Sonya almost dead and laid her on the bed. The bleeding was still going on, but she seemed to be starting to come to her senses. In addition to Sonya, Raskolnikov and Lebeziatnikov, an official and a policeman entered the room at once, having previously dispersed the crowd, some of which were escorted to the very door. Polechka brought Kolya and Lenya in, holding hands, trembling and crying. They also agreed from the Kapernaumovs: he himself, lame and crooked, a strange-looking man with bristly, upright hair and sideburns; his wife, who had some kind of frightened look once and for all, and several of their children, with faces stiff from constant surprise and with open mouths. Among all this public, Svidrigailov suddenly appeared. Raskolnikov looked at him in surprise, not understanding where he came from, and not remembering him in the crowd.
They talked about the doctor and the priest. Although the official whispered to Raskolnikov that, it seems, the doctor was now superfluous, he ordered to send it. Kapernaumov himself ran.
Meanwhile, Katerina Ivanovna caught her breath, and for a while the blood drained. She looked with a painful, but intent and penetrating gaze at the pale and trembling Sonya, who was wiping drops of sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief; Finally, she asked to be lifted up. They put her on the bed, holding her on both sides.
Blood still covered her parched lips. She rolled her eyes, looking around.
"So that's how you live, Sonya!" I have never been with you ... I have ...
She looked at her with anguish.
- We sucked you, Sonya ... Fields, Lenya, Kolya, come here ... Well, here they are, Sonya, take them ... from hand to hand ... but that’s enough for me! .. The ball is over! G "ah! .. Lower me, let me at least die in peace ...
They lowered her back onto the pillow.
- What? A priest?.. No need... Where do you have an extra ruble?.. I have no sins!.. God must forgive even without that... He knows how I suffered!..
The restless delirium seized her more and more. * Sometimes she trembled, cast her eyes around, recognized everyone for a minute; but immediately consciousness again gave way to delirium. She was breathing hoarsely and with difficulty, something seemed to be bubbling in her throat.
- I tell him: "Your Excellency! .." - she shouted, resting after each word, - this Amalia Ludwigovna ... ah! Lenya, Kolya! handles to the sides, hurry, hurry, glisse-glisse, pas de basque! * Tap your feet... Be a graceful child.
Du hast die schönsten Augen,
Mädchen, was willst du mehr?
Well, yes, how not! was willst du mehr, - he will invent it, fool! .. Oh yes, here's another:
In the afternoon heat, in the valley of Dagestan * ...
Oh, how I loved ... I loved this romance to the point of adoration, Polechka! .. you know, your father ... still sang as a groom ... Oh, days! .. If only, if only we could sing! Well, how, how ... so I forgot ... but remind me, how? She was in extreme agitation and struggled to get up. Finally, in a terrible, hoarse, tearing voice, she began, crying out and gasping at every word, with an air of some growing fright:
In the afternoon heat! .. in the valley! .. Dagestan! ..
With lead in my chest!
Your Excellency! she suddenly yelled with a rending cry and burst into tears, “protect the orphans!” Knowing the bread and salt of the late Semyon Zakharych! .. One might even say aristocratic! .. G "a!" she shuddered suddenly, regaining her senses and examining everyone with some horror, but immediately recognized Sonya. - Sonya, Sonya! - she said meekly and affectionately, as if surprised to see her in front of him, “Sonya, dear, are you here too?”
She was lifted up again.
- Enough! .. It's time! .. Farewell, unfortunate! .. We left the nag! she shouted desperately and hatefully, and crashed her head on the pillow.
She forgot herself again, but this last oblivion did not last long. Her pale yellow, withered face threw back, her mouth opened, her legs stretched convulsively. She took a deep, deep breath and died.
Sonya fell on her corpse, wrapped her arms around her and froze, leaning her head against the withered chest of the deceased. Polechka fell at her mother's feet and kissed them, weeping bitterly. Kolya and Lenya, still not understanding what had happened, but anticipating something very terrible, grabbed each other by the shoulders with both hands and, staring at one another with their eyes, suddenly, together, at once, opened their mouths and began to scream. Both were still in costume: one in a turban, the other in a yarmulke with an ostrich feather.
And how did this “commendation sheet” suddenly find itself on the bed, next to Katerina Ivanovna? He lay right there, by the pillow; Raskolnikov saw him.
He went to the window. Lebeziatnikov jumped up to him.
- Died! Lebezyatnikov said.
“Rodion Romanovich, I have two necessary words to convey to you,” Svidrigailov approached. Lebeziatnikov immediately gave way and delicately shied away. Svidrigailov led the astonished Raskolnikov further into the corner.
- All this fuss, that is, funerals and so on, I take on myself. You know, if I had money, I told you that I have extra money. I will place these two chicks and this Polechka in some better orphanage establishments and put on each, until adulthood, one thousand five hundred rubles in capital, so that Sofya Semyonovna will be completely at peace. Yes, and I’ll pull her out of the pool, because she’s a good girl, isn’t she? Well, so you tell Avdotya Romanovna that I used her ten thousand like that.
- With what goals did you become so blissful? Raskolnikov asked.
- Eh! The man is incredulous! Svidrigailov laughed. - After all, I said that I have extra money. Well, but simply, according to humanity, you don’t allow it, or what? After all, she was not a “louse” (he pointed his finger at the corner where the deceased was), like some old pawnbroker. Well, you will agree, well, “Does Luzhin really live and do abominations, or should she die?” And don’t help me, because “Polenka, for example, will go there, along the same road ...”
He said it with the air of some winking cheerful trickery, keeping an eye on Raskolnikov. Raskolnikov turned pale and cold as he heard his own expressions spoken to Sonya. He quickly recoiled and looked wildly at Svidrigailov.
“W-why… you know? he whispered, barely catching his breath.
- Why, I'm standing here, through the wall, at Madame Resslich's. Here is Kapernaumov, and there is Madame Resslich, an old and most devoted friend. Neighbor-s.
“I am,” continued Svidrigailov, swaying with laughter, “and I can assure you with honor, my dear Rodion Romanovich, that you have surprisingly interested me. After all, I said that we would get together, I predicted this for you, - well, we agreed. And you will see what a foldable person I am. See that you can still live with me ...
The day after the explanation with Dunya, Pyotr Petrovich had to admit to himself that it would be rather difficult for him to establish relations with her. Luzhin's bad mood worsened even more from the fact that the German who had rented the apartment to him now demanded that he pay the entire penalty for breaching the contract, despite the fact that Pyotr Petrovich was returning the newly finished apartment to him. In addition, even in the furniture store they did not want to return a single ruble of the deposit for the furniture already bought, but not yet transported to the apartment. He remembered Dunya and began to reproach himself for not giving her any gifts. “If I had given them a thousand and a half for a dowry, but for different boxes, then they would not have refused so easily now,” Luzhin reasoned. Mentally, he called himself a fool and left the room.
He saw the preparations for the commemoration and learned that the commemoration would be solemn, all residents were invited. He, Pyotr Petrovich, is expected with great impatience as the most important guest. Katerina Ivanovna was at the cemetery, and Madame Lippewechsel herself was in charge of the kitchen, dressed, though in mourning, but in everything new. All this led Luzhin to one thought.
He returned to his room. Andrey Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov was here. Petr Petrovich temporarily settled with this person while waiting for the completion of repairs in a rented apartment. But Pyotr Petrovich settled with Lebezyatnikov not only out of petty savings. In the province, Lebezyatnikov had a reputation as a young progressive man who enjoyed influence in other fabulous circles. In the provinces they heard that there were some kind of progressives, nihilists, accusers, etc., in the capital, but no one knew exactly what they were. Petr Petrovich faced two cases of denunciation of influential people, which ended one scandalously, and the other very troublesome. That is why, having arrived in Petersburg, Pyotr Petrovich decided, just in case, to find out if these people were strong or not? Is there anything to be afraid of him or not? Moreover, he would like to imitate them and immediately cheat them.
Luzhin immediately realized that Andrei Semenovich was a rather vulgar and rustic young man. He was skinny, small in stature. He had a rather soft heart, but his speech was rather self-confident, which, in comparison with his figure, almost always looked ridiculous. He was one of an innumerable and diverse legion of vulgarities, tyrants who have not studied everything, who immediately stick to the most fashionable idea in order to vulgarize what they most sincerely serve. Simple as Lebeziatnikov was, he had already begun to understand that Luzhin secretly despises him. Pyotr Petrovich instinctively began to understand that Lebeziatnikov was not only a stupid and vulgar person, but, perhaps, a liar. Apparently, he does not have connections and influence even in his circle, and he does not really know his propaganda business.
Returning to the room, Luzhin spoke to Lebezyatnikov about the impending commemoration. He did not like that the widow decided to spend almost all the money given by Raskolnikov on a wake, inviting all the tenants to them. He said that he himself was not going to go there. Lebeziatnikov also did not want to go. “Of course, they beat him off with his own hands,” Luzhin chuckled. "Who blew it? Whom?" Lebeziatnikov blushed. “Yes, you are Katerina Ivanovna, a month ago. Here they are, your beliefs! Yes, and the women's issue played up! Pyotr Petrovich seemed to have calmed down and continued to count the money laid out on the table. Lebezyatnikov began to say ardently that all this was slander. He only defended himself from Katerina Ivanovna when she rushed at him with her claws, even plucked his sideburn. Lebezyatnikov explained that he would not go to the wake for ideological reasons. “I just won’t go on principle so as not to participate in the stupid prejudice of the commemoration,” he continued.
Luzhin spoke about Sonya: “Is it true what they say about her?” Lebezyatnikov said that he believes that this is the normal state of a woman, that this will be the case in the future. He looks at Sonya's actions as a protest against the social order and respects her for it. “But they told me that you survived her out of the rooms,” Luzhin put in venomously. Lebezyatnikov told for a long time and floridly that he was engaged only in the development of Sofya Semyonovna, invited him to the commune. In this conversation, Lebeziatnikov tried to pompously explain to Luzhin the principles of their commune, and Luzhin rather caustically ridiculed these naive and ridiculous theories.
Finally, Luzhin asked Lebezyatnikov to call Sonya into their room. When she arrived, Luzhin greeted her kindly and affably. He invited her to a table where money was neatly arranged in piles. Sonya sat up timidly. Luzhin asked Lebezyatnikov to stay during their conversation so that there would be no gossip later. Pyotr Petrovich delivered a rather pompous speech about the plight of Katerina Ivanovna, remarked that she could not be trusted with money, and therefore he decided to give the money to Sonya. At the same time, he handed her a piece of paper worth 10 rubles, carefully unfolding it. Sonya took it, jumped up and quickly began to take her leave.
When Sonya left, Lebezyatnikov went up to Pyotr Petrovich and held out his hand: “I heard everything and saw everything. You wanted to avoid gratitude. Although I do not approve of charity in general, I looked at this act of yours with pleasure. He again launched into his discussions about a free civil marriage, which Pyotr Petrovich, as before, listened to, chuckling. It was clear that he was thinking about something else. Andrey Semyonovich realized all this and remembered later.
Further, in the 5th part of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment, it is said that at the commemoration Katerina Ivanovna was in an annoyed state, because the most respected tenants did not come. She found fault with the poor and miserable tenants who came to the wake, recalled her life in her father's house. Katerina Ivanovna was especially annoyed by the mistress of the rooms, Amalia Ivanovna. She searched and found a reason to quarrel with her. During this scene, when the women were ready to grab each other's hair, Luzhin entered the room. He went straight to Sonya and accused her of stealing a hundred-ruble bank note. Luzhin solemnly told Sonya to give the money herself. "I don't know anything," poor Sonya muttered in a weak voice. She handed over the ten rubles that Luzhin had given her and said that she had not taken anything else. Raskolnikov stood pale during this scene, his arms folded against the wall. Katerina Ivanovna shouted: "Let anyone who wants to search Sonya!" She turned out one pocket herself, Sonia, it contained only a handkerchief, then another. A piece of paper suddenly jumped out of the second pocket and fell at Luzhin's feet. Everyone screamed. It was a hundred-ruble bank note
The weeping of the pale, consumptive Katerina Ivanovna, who denied that Sonya could steal, made a strong impression. Everyone took pity on the unfortunate. Pyotr Petrovich generously said that he forgave the poor girl, who was forced by need to steal. Raskolnikov's gaze seemed ready to incinerate Luzhin. The whole family consoled the weeping Sonya. "How low!" Suddenly, a loud voice rang out from the door. "What meanness!" repeated Lebeziatnikov. Pyotr Petrovich seemed to shudder. "You are a fraud! I heard everything…” he said angrily, turning to Luzhin. “Yes, what did I do?” he was surprised. “He himself put this ticket in Sofya Semyonovna's pocket. I saw everything. At the door, saying goodbye to her…” Luzhin turned pale and said that Lebezyatnikov was lying. "Not. Even though I was far away. But I saw that when you began to give Sonya 10 rubles, at the same time you took a hundred-ruble ticket from the table. I saw it well, because then I was standing next to you. I thought that you quietly want this boon from me, so I followed you closely and saw how you put it in Sofya Semyonovna's pocket.
Everyone believed Lebezyatnikov. Petr Petrovich accused Lebezyatnikov of lying because he did not share his convictions. But this trick did not benefit Luzhin. There was a murmur in the crowd. Lebezyatnikov was ready to take an oath in the veracity of his words. Raskolnikov undertook to explain Luzhin's vile act. He did all this in order to finally quarrel Raskolnikov with his family, showing that Sonya, who is dear to Rodion, is in fact a thief. Raskolnikov spoke sharply, calmly, clearly, firmly. Seeing that he was caught, Pyotr Petrovich decided to take it with impudence. He calmly declared that they would sort everything out in court and would not believe the two notorious atheists. Saying this, he confidently made his way through the crowd of tenants to his room. Pyotr Petrovich left the apartment half an hour later.
Sonya was hysterical. She understood that anyone could offend and insult her with impunity. But it seemed to her that disaster could be avoided by caution. Now she saw that it was not so. Unable to stand it, Sonya ran home. Amalia Ivanovna began to drive Katerina Ivanovna and her children out of the apartment. The already murdered Katerina Ivanovna threw on her head the same dradedam scarf in which she had been kneeling in front of Sonya all night when she first went to the panel, went to seek justice.
Part 5 of Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" continues with the fact that Raskolnikov went to Sonya. On the way, he wondered if he should tell Sonya about the killer of the old woman, as he promised. As he approached the door, he felt the need to do so. In order not to argue and not to suffer anymore, he abruptly opened the door to the room. Sonya rushed to him with words of gratitude for his intercession. Raskolnikov sat down on a chair and spoke to Sonya. Raskolnikov could not make up his mind to tell Sonya the truth about the murder of the old woman. Speaking of the killer, he said that he had a great friend with him. He accidentally killed Lizaveta. He wanted to kill the old woman when she was alone, but then Lizaveta came and he killed her.
A terrible minute passed. Both looked at each other. "So you can't guess?" he asked again. "No," Sonya whispered softly. He looked at Sonya and saw the face of Lizaveta, so well remembered to him, when he approached her with an ax, and she retreated to the wall with a childish fright on her face. Almost the same thing happened to Sonya. With the same fright, she looked helplessly at him and suddenly began to rise, more and more moving away from him, her gaze became more and more motionless. "God!" Sonya fell on the bed in tears, then quickly got up, grabbed both his hands, looking intently into his eyes. She seemed to want to see that it was not true. But everything was like that. "Sonya, don't torture me!" Raskolnikov asked. Not remembering herself, she rushed to him and sat down beside him, then threw herself on her knees in front of him. “What have you done to yourself! There is no one more unhappy now in the whole world! - and suddenly burst into tears. A long-forgotten feeling swept over Raskolnikov, two tears rolled down from his eyes. "Sonya, won't you leave me?" “No, never and nowhere! I'll follow you! I will go everywhere! Sonya was thinking about hard labor. Raskolnikov winced. “I, Sonya, are still in hard labor, maybe I don’t want to go!” - he said. She looked at him. There was a killer in his tone. “How can you, you are like that, dare to do this?” she said.
Sonya asked Rodion to go and repent before people. Raskolnikov did not understand her, he was not going to hard labor. “And how will you live? After all, you already left your mother and sister. Such a flour to bear! Sonya repeated. “Maybe I’m not a louse yet, but a man ... I’ll still fight.” Raskolnikov explained to Sonya that there was no real evidence against him, he could only briefly end up in prison. He asked if Sonya would come to him there? "Yes," the girl answered without hesitation. Sonya put her cypress cross on Raskolnikov, and left for herself the one that Lizaveta gave her.
At that moment Lebeziatnikov entered the room. He blurted out bluntly that Katerina Ivanovna had gone mad. Everyone immediately left the room. On the way, Lebezyatnikov said that she went to the general to complain about the landlady, she was kicked out. She returned home and shouted that everyone had abandoned her, that she would go out into the street to beg and every day she would come under the window to the general. She beats the children, teaches Lenya to sing the song "Khutorok", sews some hats for the children, like actors.
Having come up with his house, Raskolnikov went to his closet. Raskolnikov never felt so alone. He was already scolding himself for going to Sonya. Then a strange thought came to him that perhaps it would be better in prison.
Dunya interrupted his thoughts. Raskolnikov immediately saw that she had come to him with love. Razumikhin told her that her brother was suspected of killing the old woman. Dunya said that she understood Rodion's indignation, she only asked to come to her mother sometimes, so as not to torture her at all. “I only came to tell you that if you need me for anything or you need my life... then call me, I will come. Goodbye!" - With these words, Dunya turned to leave. Raskolnikov stopped her. He told Dunya that Razumikhin was a businesslike, hardworking person, honest, capable of much love. Raskolnikov said goodbye to his sister without telling her the truth. He realized that Dunya could not stand such truth. Rodion remembered Sonya, took his cap and went out. He wandered around the city aimlessly. Suddenly, someone called out to him. Lebezyatnikov rushed to him. He was looking for Rodion, because the affairs of Katerina Ivanovna were very bad.
Raskolnikov tried to convince her to return home, but all in vain. The policeman showed up. He demanded to stop the disgrace. Kolya and Lenya, frightened by the antics of the crazy mother and the crowd that had gathered, at the sight of the policeman, rushed to run. The mother rushed to catch up with them and fell. Everyone crowded around Katerina Ivanovna. Having examined it carefully, they saw that it did not break on the stones, but blood gushed out of its throat. Sonya asked to carry Katerina Ivanovna to her. In addition to Sonya, Raskolnikov, Lebezyatnikov, the official who had given Katerina Ivanovna three rubles on the street, the policeman and the children were in the room. The Kapernaumovs have arrived. Svidrigailov suddenly appeared between this audience. Katerina Ivanovna came to her senses.
Having heard about the priest, Katerina Ivanovna refused him, saying that God should forgive her without that, but there was no extra ruble. Katerina Ivanovna again began to rave, remembering her prosperous life before marriage. This did not last long. She passed away. Sonya fell on the corpse, clinging to the withered chest of the deceased. The little girl wept bitterly. Svidrigailov went up to Raskolnikov. He said that he would take care of the funeral, he would place the children in orphanages. Sofya Semyonovna will also be pulled out of the pool. Svidrigailov also made it clear to Raskolnikov that he heard his conversation with Sonya, because he lives through the wall.
Due to an upset marriage, Luzhin has large losses (a penalty for an apartment, an unreturned deposit for new furniture, etc.). Luzhin is among those invited to the commemoration, as well as his neighbor Andrei Semenovich Lebezyatnikov, a "progressive" who is related to the "circles", although "a vulgar, simple-minded person." Luzhin also wanted to use it in his career, "currying to the younger generation." Lebezyatnikov talks with Luzhin about "progressive" ideas - emancipation, civil marriage, "communes" (Dostoevsky makes fun of all this), believes that his vocation in life is to "protest" against everyone and everything. Despite this, he speaks well of Sonya. Luzhin asks Lebezyatnikov to bring Sonya. He leads. Luzhin had previously counted money on the table, and when Sonya arrived, he gave her 10 rubles under the guise of help.
Katerina Ivanovna is in an irritated state, since almost none of those invited to the wake did not appear, including Luzhin and Lebeziatnikoz. During the commemoration, a scandal occurs between Katerina Ivanovna and Amalia Ivanovna, the landlady. In the midst of a squabble, Luzhin appears. He accuses Sonya of stealing 100 rubles from him. Sonya replies that she did not take anything, only 10 rubles, which Luzhin himself gave her, and returns the money to him. Luzhin insists that he lost 100-ruble banknotes. Katerina Ivanovna protects Sonya, turns her pockets inside out to show that there is nothing in them. 100 rubles falls out of the pocket. Lebezyatnikov, who arrived at that time, testifies that Luzhin himself slipped these 100 rubles into Sonya's pocket, and is ready to take an oath in this. Previously, Lebezyatnikov thought that Luzhin wanted to do a good deed, but imperceptibly, so Lebezyatnikov was silent. Raskolnikov explains to those present that Luzhin wanted to quarrel with his family in this way, proving that Sonya, whom Raskolnikov protected and helped, is a thief. Then Luzhin would have restored his intentions to marry Dunya, like a man who warned her about the "character of this girl" in advance. Luzhin understands that he has been caught, but does not show it, takes on an impudent air, slips out of the room, collects his things and moves out of the apartment. The landlady also drives Katerina Ivanovna with the children. The one with the words "I will find justice" is going to go out into the street.
Raskolnikov leaves, goes to Sonya. He confesses to her that he killed the old woman and Lizaveta. Sonya cries, says: “What did you do to yourself!”, meaning that Raskolnikov, being a man, tried to break universal laws. Sonya says that she will follow Raskolnikov to hard labor. Raskolnikov tells her about his theory. "I only killed a louse." Sonya: "Is this a louse?" Raskolnikov: “This is a human law. Don't change people. Power is given only to those who dare to bend down and take it. You just have to dare. And I wanted to dare. The trouble is that a person is not a louse for me, he is a louse for someone who does not even think about this issue. It turns out that I had no right, because I am exactly the same louse as everyone else. I killed myself, not the old woman. So what's now?" Sonya says that “we need to go to the crossroads” and tell people “I killed”, repent before them. Then God will send life again. Raskolnikov objects that he has nothing to repent of, that people themselves torment each other by the millions, that they themselves are scoundrels and that he "will still fight", that perhaps he condemned himself early, that he may be "a man, and not louse". Sonya offers to give Raskolnikov the cross that she got from Lizaveta. Raskolnikov wants to take it, but the next moment he says that "later." Lebe-zyatnikov arrives, reports that Katerina Ivanovna went to the general - the head of her late husband, she was expelled, a scandal broke out. Now she “sews some hats for the children to walk around the yards, spin the hurdy-gurdy and collect alms.” She puts on her head a drapedam scarf (the same one with which she covered Sonya when she returned from the panel for the first time and Katerina Ivanovna asked her forgiveness on her knees).
Raskolnikov goes home. Dunya comes there, says that Razumikhin told her everything, she now knows that Raskolnikov is being persecuted on suspicion of murder, but she does not believe. Raskolnikov replies that Dmitry Prokofievich Razumikhin is a very good person and is able to love a lot, then he says goodbye to his sister. Goes to roam the streets. He meets with Lebezyatnikov, who says that Katerina Ivanovna walks the streets, “beats the frying pan, and makes the children dance.” Sonya follows her, persuading her to return home. Katerina Ivanovna does not agree, saying "we have tortured you enough." Raskolnikov goes to the indicated street and also tries to reason with Katerina Ivanovna, but she does not listen. Some official with an order gives her 3 rubles. A policeman comes and demands to "stop the disgrace". The children, frightened, try to run away. Katerina Ivanovna runs after them, but falls, she starts bleeding from her throat. Katerina Ivanovna, with the help of a policeman and an official, is carried home to Sonya. Neighbors come running, among them - Svidrigailov. Katerina Ivanovna raves, then dies. Svidrigailov says that he takes care of the funeral, that he will place the children in orphanages and put 1,500 rubles for each until they reach adulthood. He asks to tell Duna that he used her money in such a way. To Raskolnikov’s question that he was so generous, Svidrigailov answers with his own words that otherwise “Polenka will go along the same road as Sonya.” Then he says that he lives through the wall from Sonya and that Raskolnikov is extremely interested in him.
Part 6
Three days have passed since the death of Katerina Ivanovna. Raskolnikov met several times with Svidrigailov, but did not talk about the main thing. Svidrigailov successfully placed the children of Katerina Ivanovna, serving her two requiems a day. Raskolnikov and Razumikhin talk about Dunya and Pulcheria Alexandrovna (Raskolnikov's mother). Razumikhin casually mentions Mikolay, who confessed to the murder. Raskolnikov realizes that Porfiry Petrovich knows that Mikolay is not really to blame. Raskolnikov is at home. Porfiry Petrovich comes to him, tells how, from suspicions, indirect data, he grew convinced of Raskolnikov's guilt. It turns out that he was even with a search at Raskolnikov's apartment when he lay unconscious, and spread rumors on purpose, expecting Raskolnikov to peck and come himself. Gradually, everything coincided to the smallest detail, and Mikolka, a devout man, a "fantasy writer", lived with some godly elder in his time, a sectarian. Decided to "suffer for others." Raskolnikov: "So who killed?" Porfiry Petrovich: "You." Raskolnikov: "Why don't you arrest me then?" Porfiry Petrovich: “There is no evidence yet. But I will definitely arrest you. Therefore, before it's too late, turn yourself in. There will be a discount, I will help. There is still a lot of life ahead. After all, you are not at all such a scoundrel, at least you didn’t fool yourself (with theory) for a long time, you immediately “reached the last pillars”. And “life will bring it to the shore, it will put it on its feet, on which coast it is not clear, but it will certainly bring it out. Find God - and everything will be on the shoulder ... Become the sun - and everyone will see you. Raskolnikov: When will you arrest me? Porfiry Petrovich: “Two days later. If you want to lay hands on yourself, then leave a note what and how. Porfiry Petrovich leaves.
Raskolnikov goes to Svidrigailov, who is still a mystery to Raskolnikov. He meets Svidrigailov in a tavern. They say. Svidrigailov says that he came to St. Petersburg "on the subject of women." “Let it be debauchery, but there is something permanent in it. In everything you need to keep faith, calculation, albeit vile. Otherwise, I would have had to shoot myself." Raskolnikov: “The abomination of the environment does not affect you? Can't stop now?" Svidrigailov, in response, talks about his life. Marfa Petrovna bought him out of prison. “Do you know how intoxicated a woman can sometimes fall in love?” Svidrigailov immediately told her that "he cannot be completely faithful to her." “After long tears, this kind of contract took place between us:
- I will never leave Marfa Petrovna and will always be her husband.
- I won't go anywhere without her permission.
- I will not have a permanent mistress.
- For this, Marfa Petrovna sometimes allows me to look at hay girls, but only with her secret knowledge.
- God save me to love a woman from our class.
- If a great passion visits me, I must open up to Marfa Petrovna.
There were frequent quarrels, but everything ended well, since Marfa Petrovna was an intelligent woman, and for the most part I was silent and not irritated. But she could not bear your sister, although she herself brought her into the house, she was unusually disposed towards her and even praised me herself. Marfa Petrovna told Avdotya Romanovna all the ins and outs about me, including rumors and gossip (she liked to complain about me to everyone in a row). I saw that, in spite of her revulsion, Avdotya Romanovna felt sorry for me (and then there immediately arose a desire to correct, save, bring to reason). Avdotya Romanovna is such a person that she herself is looking for what kind of flour she would accept. At this time, they brought a pretty hay girl Parasha. She was stupid and raised a cry. Avdotya Romanovna came and demanded that I leave Parasha alone. I pretended to be amazed, embarrassed, etc. - I played the role not badly. Avdotya Romanovna undertook to "enlighten" me. I pretended to be a victim of fate and resorted to a tried and tested remedy - flattery. But even a vestal can be seduced by flattery. But I was too impatient and ruined everything. We parted. I did another stupid thing: I began to mock her "propaganda", Parasha appeared on the stage, and she was not alone. Sodom has begun. But at night I dreamed about her. Then I decided to offer her all my money (about 30 thousand) and run away with me to St. Petersburg. Marfa Petrovna concocted Avdotya Romanovna's wedding to Luzhin, and it was essentially the same thing. Raskolnikov: "My sister can't stand you." Svidrigailov: “Are you sure? But it is not important. I am getting married. At sixteen." He tells what kind of "not yet unfolded bud" is - "timidity, tears of modesty." Parents blessed. Svidrigailov: “He gave her jewelry and, left alone, roughly seated her on his knees. And she: “I will be your faithful wife, I will make you happy, I just want to have respect from you. And you don't need gifts. I will certainly marry, even though she is only 16, and I am 50. He tells how he seduced another girl who happened to meet him, taking care of guardianship. At the end he says to Raskolnikov: "Do not be indignant, you yourself are a decent cynic." He is about to leave, but Raskolnikov does not let him go, believing that he has bad intentions regarding Dunya. Svidrigailov says that Sonya is not at home (Raskolnikov was going to go to her to apologize that he was not at the funeral of Katerina Ivanovna) - she went to the owner of the orphanage, where Svidrigailov placed the younger children and told the owner the whole story. She made an appointment for Sonya. Then Svidrigailov hints to Raskolnikov about an overheard conversation with Sonya. Raskolnikov says that it is mean to eavesdrop at the door. Svidrigailov: “If you really think that you can’t eavesdrop at the door, and you can peel old women with anything, leave for America as soon as possible. I will give you money for the journey. Throw moral questions, otherwise there was no need to meddle. They go to Svidrigailov. Svidrigailov takes the money, invites Raskolnikov to go on a spree to the islands. Raskolnikov leaves. Svidrigailov, having driven a few meters, gets off the cab and does not go either. Raskolnikov runs into Dunya on the bridge, but does not notice her. Nearby - Svidrigailov. He makes signs to Dunya, and she approaches him. Svidrigailov asks her to come with him, promising to show "some documents" and saying that "some secret of her brother is in his hands." Come to Sonya. She is still not at home. They go to Svidrigailov. Svidrigailov says that he overheard a conversation between Raskolnikov and Sonya, reveals to Duna that her brother is a murderer, talks about his "theory". Dunya replies that she herself wants to see Sonya and find out if everything is so. Svidrigailov says that just one word from her - and he will save Raskolnikov, admits that he loves Dunya. She rejects him. Then Svidrigailov declares that the door is locked, there are no neighbors, and he can do whatever he wants with it. Dunya takes out a revolver from his pocket (taken from Svidrigailov while still in the village, when he gave her shooting lessons). Svidrigailov goes to her, Dunya shoots, the bullet scratched Svidrigailov's head. Dunya shoots again - a misfire. Svidrigailov: "Recharge - I'll wait." Dunya throws away the revolver. Svidrigailov hugs her, Dunya again asks to let her go. Svidrigailov: "Don't you love?" Dunya: "No, and I will never love." Svidrigailov lets her go, then takes the revolver and leaves. He spends the whole evening, then goes to Sonya, says: “I, perhaps, will leave for America, therefore I am making the last orders.” He says that he attached children, then he gives Sonya 3 thousand as a gift with the words: “Raskolnikov has two roads - either a bullet in the forehead, or along Vladimirka (that is, to hard labor). And if you follow him to hard labor, then the money will come in handy. Leaves. In the rain, at midnight, he comes to his fiancee's apartment, says that he must leave by important business, leaves her 15 thousand rubles. Then he wanders the streets, enters a crappy hotel, asks for a room. He sits in the dark, remembers his life: a drowned girl, Marfa Petrovna, Dunya. He dreams that somewhere in the corridor he picks up an abandoned five-year-old girl. He brings him home, puts him to bed, then wants to leave, but remembers the girl and returns to her. But the girl does not sleep, she winks impudently at him, unambiguously stretches her hands towards him, grins depravedly. Svidrigailov wakes up in horror. He writes a few lines on a piece of notebook paper, then goes outside, reaches the fire tower and, in the presence of a fireman (so that there is a witness), shoots himself.
Raskolnikov comes to his mother. She proudly reads his article in the magazine, which Razumikhin brought, although she does not understand its content. Raskolnikov says goodbye to his mother, says that he needs to leave. "Love me always, no matter what happens to me." He goes to his place, where he meets Dunya. Raskolnikov says that he is "going to betray himself." Dunya: “Are you, going into suffering, not already washing away your crime by half?” Raskolnikov: "A crime?! I killed the old pawnbroker, a nasty nasty louse. And the fact that I'm going to confess is my cowardice, I just decide from baseness and mediocrity. Moreover, from the benefit - the turnout with confession. Dunya: "But you shed blood." Raskolnikov: “Everyone sheds her, then they crown her in the Capitol. I would then do hundreds, thousands of good deeds instead of one stupidity, I just wanted to put myself in an independent position with this stupidity, to take the first step. But I could not stand the first step, because a scoundrel. If I had succeeded, I would have been crowned, and now - in a trap. Raskolnikov says goodbye to Dunya, walks down the street, thinking: “Is it possible that in these next 15-20 years my soul will be so humble that I will whimper in reverence before people, calling myself a robber to every word? Yes, exactly, exactly! For this they are exiling me now, this is what they need ... Each of them is a scoundrel and a robber by nature. And try to bypass me with exile, and they will all go berserk with noble indignation.” Raskolnikov understands that everything will be so - 20 years of uninterrupted oppression will finally finish him off, because water wears away a stone, but Raskolnikov still goes to surrender.
In the evening, Raskolnikov comes to Sonya, finds Dunya there. Raskolnikov asks Sonya for a cross, she gives him Lizaveta's cross. Raskolnikov goes to the office. There he learns that Svidrigailov shot himself. Raskolnikov is ill, he goes out into the street. Sonya is standing there. He goes back to the office and confesses to the murder.
Epilogue
Siberia. Prison. As a result of all extenuating circumstances - illness, did not use the money, surrendered when Mikolay had already confessed to the murder (Porfiry Petrovich kept his word and kept silent about his suspicions and his visit to Raskolnikov), it turned out that Raskolnikov had once saved two children during fire, supported a sick classmate with his own money for almost a year, and so on. - Raskolnikov was given only eight years. Dunya married Razumikhin. Among those invited were Zosimov and Porfiry Petrovich. Pulcheria Alexandrovna fell ill ( mental disorder) - so she was not told what happened to her son.
Sonya went to Siberia. On holidays, he sees Raskolnikov at the gates of the prison. Raskolnikov is ill. But neither suffering nor hard work broke him. He did not repent of his crime. In one he considered himself guilty - that he could not stand the crime and made a confession. He suffered that he did not kill himself, like Svidrigailov. In prison, all the criminals valued their lives very much, which surprised Raskolnikov. Nobody loved him, even hated him. Some said: “You are a gentleman! Did you have to walk with an ax! Others: “You are an atheist! You don't believe in God! You must be killed!”, although they themselves were many times more criminal than him. But everyone fell in love with Sonya, although she did not curry favor with them. In his delirium, it seemed to Raskolnikov that the whole world should perish due to a disease, as if there was a microbe, or rather spirits, gifted with mind and will, who inhabit people, making them demoniac and crazy, although the infected consider themselves smart and unshakable in truth. People get infected, start killing each other, devouring them like spiders in a jar. Having recovered, Raskolnikov learns that Sonya has fallen ill. He is anxious, but the disease turned out to be harmless. Sonya sends a note that she will come to see him at work. Raskolnikov goes to “work” in the morning, sees the far bank of the river (a roll call with the “shore” that Porfiry Petrovich spoke about), where “there was freedom, where people who did not look like the locals lived, it was as if time itself had stopped, as if it had not passed times of Abraham and his flocks. Sonya arrives. Raskolnikov throws himself at her feet, cries, realizes that he loves her endlessly. Raskolnikov still had seven more years of hard labor, but he felt that he had risen (a roll call with the resurrection of Lazarus). It is not clear why, but the attitude of the convicts has changed (compare the words of Porfiry Petrovich: “Become the sun - and everyone will see you”), Raskolnikov understands that “life has come”, the Gospel lies under his pillow.
A little about the novel. F.M. Dostoevsky completed the novel in 1866. The idea of writing it was born by the author in 1859 - at that time the writer was serving his sentence in hard labor in the Omsk fortress-prison. At first, the author intended to create a novel-confession, but in the process of writing his plan changed. Dostoevsky wrote to the editor of the Russky Vestnik magazine (where the novel was published for the first time) that this novel had become "a psychological report of one work." "Crime and Punishment" belongs to the literary direction "realism". The genre of the work is defined as a novel, because the images of the characters in the novel are equal and equal, while the author is almost on a par, next to the characters, but does not rise above them.
Part I
Chapter 1
Rodion Raskolnikov (the main character of the novel) is a poor St. Petersburg student. He owes the owner for the apartment, he is hungry because he has not eaten for several days. And he decides to bring Alena Ivanovna, the pawnbroker, a “mortgage”. On the way to her, Raskolnikov is considering some action that he intends to carry out a little later. His visit to the old woman is only a “test”. Raskolnikov first pawns the pawnbroker a silver watch, then promises to bring a cigarette box. All this time, Rodion thinks about how to kill the old woman.
Finally, leaving Alena Ivanovna, the hero goes out into the street and is horrified at the thought of the planned crime, exclaiming:
"What a horror could have crossed my mind!"
He goes to the tavern.
Chapter 2
In the tavern, one of the visitors started talking to Rodion Raskolnikov. The drunkard Marmeladov began to tell the young man about his family, how poor they were, that his daughter Sonya Marmeladova went into prostitution to save her family.
Raskolnikov brings Marmeladov home, where he meets Katerina Ivanovna, the wife of a drunkard. Rodion leaves, leaving unnoticed by the inhabitants of the apartment his last money on the windowsill.
Chapter 3
In the morning, Rodion Raskolnikov, Nastasya, the servant of the mistress of the entire tenement house, hands a letter sent to the hero by his mother, Pulcheria Raskolnikova. She wrote that Dunya (Rodion's sister) was slandered in the Svidrigailov family, for whom the girl served as a governess. Marfa Petrovna Svidrigailova humiliated and insulted Dunya when she found out that her husband, Svidrigailov, had fallen in love with a girl.
Luzhin Petr Petrovich, who has a small capital and is 45 years old, was engaged to Dunya, he is much older than Dunya. Luzhin is in a hurry to get married, takes a poor girl so that she will be grateful to him all her life. Rodion's mother informs her son that she and Dunya will soon come to him.
Chapter 4
Raskolnikov does not want Dunya to marry Luzhin. Rodion understands that his sister is making this sacrifice for him. At the same time, Raskolnikov realizes that he, a poor student, cannot help either his sister or his mother in any way. He has no right to forbid his sister to marry the wealthy Luzhin.
Again, Rodion begins to think about his theory of "the right of the strong", he thinks whether he should come to terms with his current position or
"Do something bold?"
Chapter 5
Rodion decides to go to his university friend Razumikhin to borrow some money from a friend. But, having changed his mind, the hero buys himself a piece of cake and a glass of vodka with the last money. From the drunk and eaten he was overwhelmed. Rodion falls asleep in the bushes.
And again he sees an incredibly tragic dream about an old horse slaughtered by peasants. He cries in his sleep. Waking up, Raskolnikov goes to the market near the Haymarket. There he hears how the merchant invites Lizaveta (the sister of the old usurer) to visit him. Lizaveta agrees.
Raskolnikov realizes that he will come to the old woman to kill her, that "everything has been finally decided."
Chapter 6
Raskolnikov thinks about how unfair life is all the time. In the billiard room, he accidentally hears a strange conversation between an officer and a student. These two also argue that such a nonentity as an old pawnbroker has no right to live. They say that it would be good to kill her, and distribute her money to the poor, and thereby save them.
The next day, Rodion begins to prepare for the crime. He takes an ax from the janitor's room, hides it under his coat, and wraps in paper a plank similar in size to a cigarette box. Raskolnikov is about to go to the old pawnbroker again.
Chapter 7
Raskolnikov comes to the pawnbroker, gives her a cigarette box. Alena Ivanovna turns away from him to the window in order to better examine the pawn. Rodion hits her on the head with the butt of an axe. The old woman falls and dies. At this time, the pawnbroker's sister returns. Raskolnikov is extremely frightened, in confusion he kills Lizaveta as well.
He goes to wash the ax and hears that clients have come to the pawnbroker. Rodion froze in fright. The visitors went for the janitor to open the door for them. Raskolnikov runs out onto the stairs, notices an ajar door on the lower floor and hides in an empty apartment.
Part 2
Chapter 1
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Raskolnikov wakes up from a sound sleep. He examines the gizmos taken from the pawnbroker, tries to wash them of blood, in order to hide them later. Nastasya, who serves the mistress of the house, gives Rodion a summons to the police station.
Arriving there, Raskolnikov finds out that the hostess is demanding payment from him for housing through the police. Rodion writes a receipt, gives it to the warden. After leaving the station, the student hears two policemen discussing the murder of the pawnbroker.
What he heard shocked Raskolnikov so much that he fainted. The people who were at the station at that time decide that the young man is sick and send the young man home. And in his soul he feels "endless solitude and alienation."
Chapter 2
Rodion is tormented by remorse. He is afraid of a search, because he wants to get rid of the old woman's things. Raskolnikov goes to the city, after several unsuccessful attempts, due to the large number of people on the streets, he nevertheless hides the stolen things. Then the student comes to his friend, not knowing why. Razumikhin also decides that his friend is very ill.
Rodion leaves his friend, returns to his apartment. On the way to the house, he almost gets hit by the wheels of a passing stroller. At home, the young man in a delusional state falls into a heavy oblivion, and in the morning he completely loses consciousness.
Chapter 3
Raskolnikov woke up only a few days later. Near him in the room he sees Razumikhin with Nastasya. Rodion was given some money that his mother had sent him. Razumikhin reports that the policeman Zametov came to Raskolnikov, who was very interested in the young man's things. Razumikhin gives a friend new clothes, bought with part of the money sent by his mother.
Dr. Zosimov arrives.
Chapter 4
Zosimov, a medical student, is also a friend of Rodion. He and Razumikhin begin to discuss the murder of the old woman and her sister. Raskolnikov hears from the conversation that the dyer Mikola has been arrested. However, the police have no evidence yet.
Rodion is confused and very worried. Then an unknown decently dressed gentleman comes to him.
Chapter 5
The unknown turns out to be Petr Petrovich Luzhin, who reports that he has found housing for Rodion's mother and sister. Raskolnikov did not like Luzhin very much.
Petr Petrovich tried to present his opinion about the youth to the student, he advocates the priority of personal interest over the public one.
“Yes, from your own theory, it ultimately follows that people can be cut! And you take my beggar sister to rule over her?
- Raskolnikov tells him.
They quarrel, and the student kicks the guest out of the house. Then Rodion, in anger, drives away his friends Zosimov and Razumikhin.
Chapter 6
Arriving at the tavern, Raskolnikov again sees Zametov there. The student discusses the murder of the old woman with the policeman. Telling what he would do in the place of the killer, Rodion almost confesses to his deed. However, Zametov decides that the student is sick and does not believe that Raskolnikov killed the old woman.
Rodion walks through the city, on the bridge he sees that some woman has rushed down from the bridge, committing suicide. The student refuses thoughts of suicide.
Then he comes to the pawnbroker's apartment. There is a renovation going on. Raskolnikov decides to go to Razumikhin. Suddenly he sees a crowd gathered in the distance, goes there.
Chapter 7
Coming closer, Raskolnikov sees that Marmeladov is lying on the sidewalk, who was crushed by a passing carriage. Rodion helps carry the victim home.
In the apartment, the student sees Marmeladov's wife. Katerina Ivanovna is angry with onlookers. This is where Sonya comes in. Her clothes look provocative and out of place here. Marmeladov, dying, asks Sonya and Katerina Ivanovna for forgiveness for everything and dies.
Raskolnikov leaves the family all his money, leaves. He is overtaken by the youngest daughter of the Marmeladov Fields, who asks for Rodion's address. He tells her where he lives and leaves. Rodion comes to Razumikhin, with whom he returns to his closet. Approaching the house, friends see a light in the window of Rodion's apartment. It turned out that it was Raskolnikov's mother and sister who had arrived and were waiting for him. They rush to meet him, but the student loses consciousness.
Part 3
Chapter 1
Waking up from a faint, Rodion asks his relatives and friend not to worry about him. Raskolnikov argues with his sister over Luzhin, demands that Dunya refuse to marry this gentleman. Soon the mother and sister leave for the rooms that Luzhin rented for them.
Razumikhin escorts the women to their new rented apartment. He likes Dunya more and more.
Chapter 2
Razumikhin visits Raskolnikov's sister and mother in the morning. He asks Dunya for forgiveness for the unflattering words about her fiancé. Here they bring a note from Luzhin. In a note, he says that he will visit them soon and wants Rodion not to be there.
Pulcheria Ivanovna tells Razumikhin that, according to Luzhin, her son allegedly became interested in some kind of prostitute. Mother and sister go to Rodion.
Chapter 3
The student is better. Raskolnikov informs his mother and sister about yesterday's incident with Marmeladov, that he gave money to help Katerina Ivanovna. Mother tells about the death of Svidrigailova and about Luzhin's note.
Dunya wants her brother to come in the evening and be present at their meeting with Pyotr Petrovich.
Chapter 4
Sonya comes to Rodion. She asks him to attend Marmeladov's funeral. Raskolnikov introduces her to her sister and mother, who treated the girl with great sympathy. Pulcheria Ivanovna and her sister soon leave. Saying goodbye, Dunya bowed to Sonya, who was very embarrassed because of this.
Raskolnikov really wants to get acquainted with Porfiry Petrovich. Rodion expects to learn from him the details of the investigation into the murder of the pawnbroker.
Sonya goes home. Some gentleman follows her, who follows the girl all the way to her house, even tries to talk to her. It turns out that the gentleman lives next door to Sonya.
Chapter 5
Raskolnikov and Razumikhin together come to Porfiry Petrovich, whose guest was Zametov. The student wanted to know what the police knew, so he asks what needs to be done to claim his rights to the things he has pledged.
- the investigator told the student. Then Porfiry begins to discuss with Rodion a theory that the student recently published in a newspaper.The essence of the theory: all people are divided into extraordinary and ordinary. The extraordinary are allowed much more, they can even commit a crime at the behest of their conscience, if this helps the common good. Rodion explains:
"I'm only in main idea I believe mine. It consists precisely in the fact that people, according to the law of nature, are generally divided into two categories: into the lowest (ordinary), that is, so to speak, into the material that serves only for the generation of their own kind, and actually into people, that is, those who have the gift or the talent to say a new word in one's environment.
“... the first category, that is, the material, generally speaking, people are by nature conservative, orderly, live in obedience and love to be obedient. In my opinion, they are obliged to be obedient, because this is their assignment, and there is absolutely nothing humiliating for them here.
Then adds:
“Second category, everyone transgresses the law, destroyers, or is inclined to do so, judging by their abilities. The crimes of these people are, of course, relative and varied; for the most part they demand, in widely varying pronouncements, the destruction of the present in the name of the better. But if, for his idea, he needs to even step over a corpse, over blood, then he, in his conscience, can, in my opinion, give himself permission to step over blood - depending, however, on the idea and size her, mind you. It is in this sense alone that I am speaking in my article of their right to commit a crime.”
"And if any of ordinary people suddenly considers that he is a genius, and will begin to remove all obstacles?
asks Porfiry. “There are police and prisons for this,” Raskolnikov replies.
Porfiry Petrovich asks him a question:
"And you would dare to step over?"
"Very likely"
Raskolnikov answers him.
Porfiry guesses that it was Rodion who killed the old woman, invites him to go to the police station. At the same time, Razumikhin remarks in a conversation that a friend came to the old woman three days before the murder, but not on that day. Then the friends leave.
Chapter 6
Saying goodbye to Razumikhin, Raskolnikov went up to his house. He is overtaken by a stranger who throws only one word in Rodion's face: "murderer" and leaves. The young man returns home in confusion, is forgotten in a heavy dream.
In the dream, he tries again and again to kill the pawnbroker who laughs in his face. Alena Ivanovna's apartment is filled with some people who also reproach the student for the murder.
With difficulty waking up after a nightmare, Rodion sees yesterday's stranger on the threshold of his room. This is Svidrigailov Arkady Ivanovich, a landowner who followed Sonya and recently tried to seduce Dunya.
Part 4
Chapter 1
Raskolnikov is not at all happy about Svidrigailov's sudden visit, especially since the landowner has recently compromised Rodion's sister. The hero Svidrigailov is unpleasant.
And in the course of the conversation, the guest suddenly touches on an “otherworldly” topic: he tells in confidence how the dead appeared to him in the form of ghosts several times. And thinks about what will be eternity in the next life:
"What if it's just some smoky bathhouse with spiders."
The young man wants to expel the guest, but he tries to convince the student that he wants to transfer the money left by Svidrigailova to Dunya, promises Rodion ten thousand rubles if Raskolnikov helps the landowner to see the young man's sister. Rodion is indignant and kicks out the guest.
Chapter 2
Raskolnikov, together with his friend Razumikhin, goes to Bakaleev's rooms in the evening to visit Rodion's mother and sister. There they meet Luzhin, who is outraged that the women did not heed his request and called Raskolnikov.
Pyotr Petrovich tries to point out to the bride - in what a disastrous, difficult situation she herself and her relatives are, reproaches the girl. Dunya firmly replies that she cannot, will not choose: a brother or a fiancé.
Pyotr Petrovich mentions Svidrigailov. Dunya and the groom quarrel. As a result, the girl breaks up with Luzhin - she asks him to leave.
Chapter 3
Raskolnikov tells his mother and sister about the visit and about Svidrigailov's proposal. Dunya is afraid, does not want to meet the landowner. However, Pulcheria Ivanovna, together with her daughter, begin to dream about how and for what they can use the 3,000 rubles given to them by Svidrigailova.
Suddenly, Rodion gets up and leaves, instead of saying goodbye, he asks his relatives not to make attempts to see him. He says he will come himself if possible. Razumikhin thinks for the first time that his friend might be the murderer of the pawnbroker. He stays with Dunya and Pulcheria Ivanovna, takes care of them all.
Chapter 4
Having left his relatives, Rodion comes to Sonya Marmeladova, in her miserable closet. There he says to the girl:
“You also crossed. You also ruined your life, although your own - but it's all the same! And your sin was in vain: you never saved anyone! Let's go together. The main thing: to break what is necessary, forever, to take on suffering, and thus gain freedom and power over all trembling creatures.
Sonya, bewildered, replies that her family will simply die without her help. Raskolnikov offers the girl:
"Let's go together. The main thing: to break what is necessary, forever, to take on suffering, and thus gain freedom and power over all trembling creatures.
Then he bows at Sonya's feet and says:
“I didn’t bow to you, I bowed to all human suffering.”
The girl thinks that Rodion has gone mad.
The young man learns from the conversation that she was friends with Lizaveta, even the Gospel to Sonya remained as a memory from the murdered. Raskolnikov asks her to read about the resurrection of Lazarus, then, already leaving, he promises to tell her later who killed Lizaveta.
Svidrigailov listened to this whole conversation through a thin wall, who stopped in the apartment next to Sonya.
Chapter 5
The next day, Raskolnikov comes to Porfiry Petrovich. He turns to the investigator, asks to return the things he left with the murdered old woman. Porfiry Petrovich starts a strange conversation with him, checking the young man. Rodion is nervous, demands either to recognize him as a murderer or innocent.
However, the investigator evades a specific answer, but hints that there is some kind of surprise for Rodion in the next room.
“It is better not to arrest another criminal immediately, but to keep him at large. Then he himself will not withstand the uncertainty and will begin to circle around me, like a butterfly near a candle, and fly right into my mouth. And if you arrest him, he will only be strengthened by this and withdraw into himself.
Raskolnikov screams in hysterics that Porfiry is lying.
“But I know how you went to that apartment later! - he answers. - I have a surprise in the next room. Would you like to see?"
Chapter 6
Nikolai, a dyer from the house where the pawnbroker lived, is brought into the office. Nikolai, having struck everyone present in the investigator's office, suddenly confesses that it was he who killed Alena Ivanovna. Rodion is very surprised and goes home.
Approaching the house, the young man again sees a stranger who recently called him a murderer. The stranger apologizes for blaming Rodion, but today he believed in the young man's innocence. This tradesman turned out to be the "surprise" that Porfiry Petrovich was preparing for Raskolnikov.
Part 5
Chapter 1
Luzhin considers Raskolnikov the reason for his quarrel with Dunya. He is thinking about how to take revenge on Dunya's brother. Pyotr Petrovich settled with Lebezyatnikov, whom he knew. Lebezyatnikov lives in a neighboring apartment with the Marmeladovs.
Luzhin lays out money on the table, allegedly wanting to count it, then asks a friend to call Sonya here. The landowner apologizes to the girl for not going to the funeral for her father, and gives her 10 rubles to help the family that has lost its breadwinner. Lebezyatnikov thought that his friend was up to something unkind.
Chapter 2
Marmeladov's widow arranged a very good commemoration for her husband. However, very few guests came. Among those who came was Raskolnikov. Katerina Ivanovna began to quarrel with the mistress of the house, Amalia Ivanovna.
The hostess began to reproach the widow for the fact that the poor woman did not invite her “decent” acquaintances to the wake, but invited “anyone”.
In the midst of a quarrel, Luzhin comes to the Marmeladovs.
Chapter 3
The landowner sees a quarrel between women, Raskolnikov among the guests. Luzhin accuses Sonya of stealing in front of everyone: she allegedly stole 100 rubles from him. The girl, in confusion, takes out 10 rubles, which Pyotr Petrovich himself recently gave her.
Katerina Ivanovna assures everyone that her eldest daughter is not a thief, that she could not steal, begins to turn the pockets of the girl's dress inside out. Suddenly, a hundred-ruble bill falls out of his pocket.
Luzhin calls Lebezyatnikov to witness the theft, who begins to understand what adventure his acquaintance has drawn him into. And Lebezyatnikov, in front of all the guests, declares that Luzhin himself put 100 rubles in the girl's pocket.
Petr Petrovich is indignant, shouting that he will call the police. The hostess Amalia Ivanovna puts the Marmeladovs out of the house. Raskolnikov tries to explain to the guests what meanness Luzhin has planned, leaves after Sonya.
Chapter 4
Rodion comes to the girl, tells her that he allegedly personally knows Lizaveta's killer. Sonya understands that Rodion killed. The girl asks: why did Raskolnikov commit such a sin, why did he go to kill, since he did not even appropriate the loot.
“What have you done to yourself! Sonya screams. - There is no one more unhappy than you now in the whole world! But how could you, such, decide on this?
Raskolnikov is confused in the explanations: at first he explains that he "was going to help his sister and mother", then that he "wanted to become Napoleon." However, in the end, Rodion himself begins to understand the truth:
“It’s just that I’m proud, envious, angry, vindictive, I didn’t want to work. And I decided to find out: am I a trembling creature or have the right ... ".
Sonya takes pity on him and is ready to follow him to hard labor. Rodion tries to explain his theory of the superman to her, but he begins to get confused in the explanations, realizing himself that his theory is worthless. “What should I do now!” he exclaims in despair. -
“Stand at the crossroads,” says Sonya, “kiss the land that you defiled and say to everyone, out loud: “I killed!” Accept suffering and redeem yourself with it!”
Rodion refuses: “No, I will still fight!” The young man pushes away the cross extended to him by the girl and leaves.
Chapter 5
Lebezyatnikov unexpectedly comes to Sonya, who reports that her mother, Katerina Ivanovna, seems to have gone crazy, that she took her young children out into the street, forcing the children to beg. Sonya and Rodion go to look for her.
On one of the streets, after running after one of the children, Katerina Ivanovna falls dead, her throat bleeding. The woman is carried to Sonya, where the widow dies.
At this time, Dunya sees Svidrigailov, who is trying to give the girl money, but she refuses them. Arkady Ivanovich wants to give the money to the Marmeladovs. And Raskolnikov advises his sister to take a closer look and take a closer look at Razumikhin.
Svidrigailov turns to Raskolnikov, promising to help Sonya and the children with money, and says:
“After all, Katerina Ivanovna was not a harmful louse, like an old pawnbroker”
And winks at the young man. Rodion is literally dumbfounded by these words. And Arkady Ivanovich explains that he heard all the conversations of Rodion with Sonya from behind the wall.
Part 6
Chapter 1
After the funeral of Katerina Ivanovna, Razumikhin comes to Rodion. He tells Raskolnikov that Dunya received some note that greatly agitated her, and Pulcheria Ivanovna fell ill. After the departure of a friend, an investigator suddenly comes to Raskolnikov.
Chapter 2
Porfiry Petrovich again talks for a long time with the young man, says that he does not believe in the guilt of the dyer, but he is sure that Rodion killed him. The investigator advises the student to confess to his deed, although there is no evidence of Raskolnikov's guilt. “So who killed?” Rodion asks in fear. "How did you kill? Porfiry answers. - Yes, you killed, sir, ”then he gives two days to think and leaves.
Chapter 3
In a tavern, Rodion meets Svidrigailov, who begins to talk about his adventures. This young man does not like it at all, he frowns at such dirty stories. However, Svidrigailov notes that Raskolnikov himself is no better - after all, he is a murderer.
Chapter 4
Dunya comes to Arkady Ivanovich, who tells the girl that her brother killed Alena Ivanovna and Lizaveta, promises Dunya to save Rodion if the girl becomes his mistress. She cannot agree to this.
Dunya is trying to get out. However, he discovers that the door is locked. The girl grabs a revolver and, out of fear and desperation, shoots Svidrigailov several times, but misses. Dunya throws the weapon on the floor, crying, asks to let her go.
Arkady Ivanovich opens the door, the girl runs away. And Svidrigailov picks up the revolver and hides it.
Chapter 5
Arkady Ivanovich cannot forget Dunya. In desperation, he wanders from tavern to tavern, then comes to Sonya, whom he tells that he placed the Marmeladov children in the best boarding house, then gives the girl some money and leaves.
He has nightmares at night. He sees a mouse running around the bed, then he dreams of a drowned girl whom he dishonored in his long past, then a teenage girl whom he once ruined.
Svidrigailov hurries to leave the hotel, and later, unable to bear the pangs of conscience, commits suicide by shooting himself with a revolver.
Chapter 6
Raskolnikov confesses to his sister that it was he who killed Lizaveta and the old pawnbroker, that he can no longer endure the pangs of conscience. He says goodbye to his mother and Dunya, swears to them that he will begin to live in a completely different way. Rodion is sad that he could not cross the threshold of humanity and his conscience torments him.
Chapter 7
Raskolnikov comes to Sonya, allows her to put a cross on him, then, on the advice of the girl, feeling some kind of sudden liberation in himself, he goes to the crossroads, falls to his knees, kisses the ground and is about to say: "I am a murderer." But the people gathered around began to taunt him, believing that he was drunk. And Rodion leaves from there, but comes to the police, wanting to confess to the murder. Here he hears someone talking about Svidrigailov's suicide.
Chapter 8
The news of the death of Arkady Ivanovich shakes Rodion. Raskolnikov leaves the police, but on the street he sees Sonya waving her hands in despair. The young man returns to the station and confesses to the murder.
Epilogue
Chapter 1
At the trial, Raskolnikov does not try to justify himself, but the judges soften, give him eight years of hard labor. Sonya leaves for Rodion. Pulcheria Ivanovna dies during the trial. Sonya writes to Duna and Razumikhin about how Rodion lives in Siberia.
Dunya and Razumikhin got married, they are going to go to Raskolnikov and Sonya when Rodion's friend finishes his studies at the university in order to live together in Siberia.
Chapter 2
The convicts did not accept Raskolnikov, avoided him, did not like him. And Rodion, tormented by pangs of conscience, thought that Svidrigailov turned out to be stronger in spirit than he himself, since he was able to commit suicide. The prisoners respected Sonya, even fell in love. When they met a girl, they took off their hats in front of her, bowed to the ground.
Raskolnikov fell seriously ill and ended up in the hospital. He recovered very hard and hard, just as hard and hard was the healing of the soul.
Once Raskolnikov burst into tears, kneeling in front of Sonya. The girl cried in response, suddenly realizing that Rodion loves her. She herself loved him and could not live without him.
“They were resurrected by love, the heart of one included endless sources of life for the heart of the other”
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