description: About the AuthorDostoevsky was no stranger to adversity and struggle. Born into a family of nine in October 1821, his mother died when he was sixteen, causing the family split up. After Dostoevsky was sent to a military academy with his brother, their army surgeon father was murdered by his own serfs. Even his first wife (whose traits, critics say, manifest themselves in the character of Katerina Ivanvna) died of tuberculosis. Though his first book, Poor Folk, earned him an invitation into the Natural School of Russian Literature in the 1840s, he was convicted of subversion against Tsar Nicholas I in 1849 and exiled to Siberia. By the time Crime and Punishment was published in 1866, he had returned from exile and prison, and had developed the bleak outlook that pervades the novel.
title: Crime and Punishment
titlecomplete: Crime and Punishment
characters: Zossimov, Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”), Lizaveta Ivanovna, Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka,” “Nastasyushka”), Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova, Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov, Alyona Ivanovna, Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Polina Mikhailovna Marmeladov (“Polya,” “Polenka,” “Polechka”), Ilya Petrovich (“Gunpowder”), Porfiry Petrovich, Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova
genres: Literature, Crime, Classics, School, Novels, Philosophy, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Russia, Fiction
ratings_count: 853434
places: Russian Empire, Siberia, St. Petersburg, Russia
publisher: State Street Press