Преступление и наказание

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Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary magazine The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866.[1] It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's complete novels after his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first major novel of his "mature" period of writing.[2]

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous moneylender for his money. Raskolnikov maintains that with the moneylender's money he can perform good deeds to counter crime and, at the same time, rid the world of useless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of doing such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by comparing himself to Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permitted in pursuit of a higher purpose.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Rodion Raskolnikov, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Porfiry Petrovich, Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova, Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov, Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov, Alyona Ivanovna, Lizaveta Ivanovna, Zossimov, Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka”, “Nastasyushka”), Ilya Petrovich (“Gunpowder”), Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”), Polina Mikhailovna Marmeladov ("Polya", "Polenka", "Polechka")Places

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Translation of: Prestuplenie i nakazanie.