- 开头部分 … PART I · CHAPTER I
This opening chapter of Crime and Punishment follows an unnamed-yet-introduced young man, Raskolnikov, as he leaves his garret in S. Place on a sweltering July evening. It covers his dread of his landlady, his shabby hat and the sense that every trifle could ruin a plan, and his walk to the house by the canal where the old pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, lives. The chapter carries the reader through his brief visit to pawn a silver watch, her grudging offer of a rouble and fifteen copecks, and his sudden revulsion at what he has been contemplating. It ends with him in a tavern, calmer after beer but uneasy about his own state of mind. The murder itself, Lizaveta, and the aftermath are left to later chapters.
- PART I · CHAPTER II
Chapter II opens with Raskolnikov, unused to crowds and newly craving company, settling into a squalid tavern where a drunken former clerk, Semyon Zaharovitch Marmeladov, fixes on him as a listener. The chapter is almost entirely Marmeladov's monologue: his dismissal from the civil service, his relapse into drink, the pawned uniform, and the wife Katerina Ivanovna, whose consumption and three children are kept alive by his daughter Sonia's earnings from a yellow ticket. He claims his drinking is a search for "tears and tribulation" and ends on a messianic hope of forgiveness. The chapter closes with Raskolnikov visiting the Marmeladovs' cramped room, witnessing Katerina's violence toward her husband, and leaving coins behind. It stops before Raskolnikov's own plans; his closing musings on whether man is a scoundrel carry toward the murder theme, which later chapters develop.
- PART I · CHAPTER III
Chapter III of Crime and Punishment opens with Raskolnikov waking late in his cramped, dingy room, bilious and irritable, and tends to his squalid circumstances, including Nastasya's weak tea and his refusal to eat properly while he withdraws into "thinking." Its core is his mother's long letter from the province of R——, which reveals that his sister Dounia endured humiliation at the Svidrigaïlovs' house, that the sixty roubles sent to him had come from her wages, and that she has accepted a marriage proposal from Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, a lawyer who might employ Raskolnikov as a secretary. The chapter ends with Raskolnikov, tearful and bitter, walking aimlessly toward Vassilyevsky Ostrov. It leaves the murder plot and Luzhin's later dealings with the family to subsequent chapters.
- PART I · CHAPTER IV
Chapter IV follows Raskolnikov as he reads his mother's letter announcing Dounia's engagement to Mr. Luzhin, a "sensible business man" with two government posts and a fortune. He resolves, bitterly, that such a marriage must not happen while he lives, and he reasons through the sacrifice it would demand: Dounia selling her freedom and dignity for the sake of her mother and brother, the mother living on a hundred-and-twenty-rouble pension and hopes of Luzhin's generosity, and the risk of a fate like Sonia's. Pushed by the thought that "something must be done," he wanders onto the K—— Boulevard, where he intervenes to protect a drunken girl from a well-dressed gentleman, then provokes the policeman who was helping her. The chapter ends with his memory of Razumihin, the old university friend he has avoided for months, as a possible refuge. Luzhin's wider plans, the Svidrigaïlov threat, and the crime itself are left for later chapters.
- PART I · CHAPTER V
Chapter V follows Raskolnikov from his conversation-free wandering across Vassilyevsky Ostrov and the islands, where his fever-like unease and his thirty copecks mark his drift, through a vodka-and-pie stop and a collapse into sleep on Petrovsky Ostrov. Its central episode is a nightmare of his childhood: a peasant, Mikolka, beats a worn-out sorrel mare to death before a crowd, while the boy weeps and tries to protect her. Waking, Raskolnikov renounces the murder he has been contemplating, but his resolve is undone when, returning through the Hay Market, he overhears Lizaveta agree to be away from home at seven the next evening, leaving the old pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna alone. The chapter ends with him resolved to act. It does not yet develop his plan, his guilt, or his relations with Razumihin, which are left to later chapters.
- PART I · CHAPTER VI
Chapter VI of Crime and Punishment follows Raskolnikov after his first reconnaissance of the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna. It opens with the discovery that Lizaveta, her half-sister, is a dealer's helper and is also the one who is continually pregnant and beaten by the old woman, and it moves through a tavern conversation in which a student and an officer argue that killing the old woman would be justified by the good her money could do. Raskolnikov, shaken by how closely this echoes his own thinking, sinks into a long sleep and then prepares the murder: a noose sewn into his coat for the axe, a wooden-and-iron pledge parcel, and the theft of an axe from the porter's room. The chapter ends at the moment the old woman unfastens her latch. The killing itself and its aftermath are left to the following chapter.
- PART I · CHAPTER VII
Chapter VII of Crime and Punishment follows Raskolnikov from his arrival at the old pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna's flat through the two murders and his escape. It opens with the door cracked open and Raskolnikov's unsteady visit with the silver cigarette case pledge, and it covers the blow with the blunt side of the axe, the search of the chest and the strong box, and the arrival of Lizaveta with her bundle, whom he also kills. The chapter then traces his frantic attempt to wash the blood from his hands and the axe, his terror at the unlocked outer door, the visitors Koch and the young man who try the locked door, and his hiding in an empty painted flat before returning home and collapsing on his sofa. It stops at that collapse; his later thoughts and the consequences belong to subsequent chapters.
- PART II · CHAPTER I
Part II, Chapter I opens with Raskolnikov waking on his sofa after a long, feverish sleep and gradually recollecting the murder of the old pawnbroker and her sister. Its central concern is his frantic attempt to conceal evidence: he hides the stolen purse and trinkets under the loose wallpaper, cuts the bloodied threads and the noose loop from his clothing, and tries to decide what to do with the blood-stained sock and pocket lining. The chapter's movement is from panicked concealment toward a summons from the district police office, which he reads with relief because it concerns an unpaid I O U owed to his landlady, not the murder. The chapter ends with his sudden, agonised sense of isolation and his fear that a search will follow. It leaves the investigation's next steps and the question of who else is suspected to later chapters.
- PART II · CHAPTER II
Chapter II follows Raskolnikov after the murder, as he tries to rid himself of the stolen goods: the purse, two small boxes, four leather cases, a chain and a decoration. He first considers the Ekaterininsky Canal, then the Neva, and finally buries the bundle under a large stone in a yard off V—— Prospect, convinced no one will find it. Moving from elation to a sudden, bitter doubt about why he never looked inside the purse, he seeks out Razumihin, whom he rebuffs after accepting a translation job and then refusing to explain himself. A coachman's lash and a beggar's twenty copecks mark the chapter's turns, ending with his throwing that coin into the river. The chapter closes as he sleeps through a violent quarrel on the stairs, which he takes to be Ilya Petrovitch beating the landlady; Nastasya insists nothing happened and attributes his fear to fever and "the blood." The chapter leaves the investigation's progress and the pawnbroker's fate to later parts of the book.
- PART II · CHAPTER III
Chapter III of Crime and Punishment follows Raskolnikov as he slowly returns to full consciousness after a prolonged feverish illness, moving from delirium and fragmented memories to a clear morning when Nastasya and a messenger from the office are present. It turns on his disorientation and fear that he has forgotten something crucial, and on the practical arrangements Razumihin makes: thirty-five roubles remitted through Vahrushin at his mother's request, a meal of soup and tea, and new clothes bought from the money. Razumihin's account of the landlady Praskovya Pavlovna, the I O U given to Tchebarov, and Zametov's visits sets up the pressures on Raskolnikov's lodging and reputation. The chapter ends with Raskolnikov drifting into sleep and waking to find Razumihin's purchases, and it stops before the arrival of the unnamed stout visitor. Raskolnikov's crime itself and the investigation are not addressed here.
- PART II · CHAPTER IV
Chapter IV, a sickroom scene in Raskolnikov's lodgings, opens with the doctor Zossimov examining the feverish, sullen Raskolnikov, who turns to the wall and refuses to engage. Razumihin, his devoted friend, then recounts the investigation into the murder of the old pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta. The police have detained the students Koch and Pestryakov, but Razumihin reports a jeweller's case of gold ear-rings brought to the dram-shop keeper Dushkin by the house-painter Nikolay, who claimed he found them on the pavement. After Nikolay's failed suicide attempt and confession that he picked the box up in the flat where he and Dmitri were painting, Razumihin argues forcefully that the evidence against him is psychologically implausible. Raskolnikov, hearing that the box lay behind the door, sits up in terror. The chapter ends as an unnamed visitor enters; the conversation of the party guests and Porfiry Petrovitch's role are left for later chapters.
- PART II · CHAPTER V
This chapter is a dense, mostly dialogue-driven scene set in Raskolnikov's cramped room after his illness. Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, the stiff, well-dressed suitor engaged to Raskolnikov's sister, arrives and attempts to announce his arrangements for Raskolnikov's mother and sister, who are about to come to Petersburg. Raskolnikov, who has already heard the news through a letter, reacts with hostility and eventually orders Luzhin out after accusing him of insulting his mother. Luzhin's self-congratulatory talk of "economic truth," personal interest and progress is challenged by Razumihin as empty commonplace, and Raskolnikov mockingly applies Luzhin's theory to justify murder. The conversation turns to the pawnbroker's killing, which Razumihin argues was an amateur's first crime, and Raskolnikov's agitated interest in the case is noted by Zossimov. The chapter ends with Raskolnikov alone, turning to the wall. It sets up the family tensions and the murder investigation, which are developed later.
- PART II · CHAPTER VI
Chapter VI follows Raskolnikov on the evening after his delirium, when he dresses in new clothes, pockets twenty-five roubles, and goes out in a state of strange, sudden calm with the single resolve that "all this must be ended to-day." He wanders the Hay Market and the streets near V., hears a street organ and a singing girl, drifts toward a tavern full of drunken women, and reads old newspapers at the Palais de Cristal, where he meets the head clerk Zametov and, half-confessing, lets slip that he has been searching for news of the pawnbroker's murder and that "what if it was I who murdered the old woman and Lizaveta?" He then argues with Razumihin, who finds him on the steps, and refuses the house-warming invitation. The chapter ends on X—— Bridge, where he watches a woman throw herself into the canal and be rescued by a policeman, and then revisits the murder flat, where workmen are repapering the rooms, before walking toward the police office as a crowd gathers in the street. It does not yet show the police encounter itself, which follows in Chapter VII.
- PART II · CHAPTER VII
Chapter VII of Part III opens on a carriage accident in the road, where Raskolnikov finds the crushed, drunken clerk Marmeladov and has him carried to the Kozel house, where Katerina Ivanovna, the consumptive widow, and her children live. The chapter follows the household's frantic attempts at care: the doctor's blunt verdict, the priest's confession, the dying man's last request for his daughter Sonia, who arrives in gaudy, shameful finery. Raskolnikov leaves twenty roubles and walks out into a new surge of strength and self-confidence, then meets little Polenka on the stairs, who asks him to pray for her. The chapter ends at Razumihin's party and Raskolnikov's return to his garret, where his mother and sister are waiting and he collapses. Questions of the pawnbroker, Zametov's gossip and Porfiry's suspicions are only touched on here and left to later chapters.
- PART III · CHAPTER I
This chapter opens with Raskolnikov, back from his fever, sitting on the sofa and refusing his mother's and sister's tearful greetings, then turning on Dounia's engagement by insisting she refuse Luzhin in writing before morning, calling Luzhin's offer a sacrifice he will not accept. Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dounia, roused by Nastasya's garbled account of the quarrel, are left confused and alarmed. Razumihin, half drunk and enraptured by Dounia, takes charge: he escorts the women out, promises to return with news, and fetches Zossimov, who reassures Pulcheria Alexandrovna that the illness has partly a moral origin and that family presence will help recovery. The chapter stops with Razumihin and Zossimov leaving the lodging, Razumihin's pointed warnings about Zossimov's interest in Dounia, and Razumihin's plan to sit in the passage through the night. It does not yet resolve the broken engagement, Luzhin's fate, or Raskolnikov's confession, all of which lie in later chapters.
- PART III · CHAPTER II
Chapter II opens the morning after Raskolnikov's drunken outburst at the Marmeladov funeral, with Razumihin waking "troubled and serious" and berating himself for his insults to Luzhin and his stupid jealousy over Avdotya Romanovna. He shaves, dresses carefully, and meets Zossimov, who doubts Raskolnikov's sanity and sets a visit for eleven. The bulk of the chapter is Razumihin's visit to the ladies' lodgings, where Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dounia press him for an account of Rodion's character, his last year, his illness, and his engagement to the landlady's daughter. Luzhin's note, which bars Rodion from the evening meeting and accuses him of an affront and of giving twenty-five roubles to a drunkard's disreputable daughter, is read aloud and leaves the mother anxious. The chapter ends as the three set out to see Rodion, with the landlady watching them through a cracked door. It does not yet reach the meeting itself or the Marmeladov money.
- PART III · CHAPTER III
Chapter III opens with Zossimov's cheerful pronouncement that Raskolnikov is "quite well," though he is pale, listless and visibly suffering. It records the reunion with his mother Pulcheria Alexandrovna and sister Dounia, marked by constraint, forced reconciliation and his unsettling mood swings. Zossimov urges a return to university work to prevent relapse. Raskolnikov confesses he gave the widow of the run-over clerk his mother's money and admits he cannot understand Zossimov's and Razumihin's kindness. The core of the chapter is the dispute over Dounia's marriage to Luzhin: Raskolnikov reads Luzhin's letter, calls it legalistic and slanderous, and insists that he and Luzhin cannot both remain in her life, while Dounia defends her choice as a sacrifice for her family. The chapter ends with the decision that Luzhin's visit will go ahead that evening with Raskolnikov present. It stops short of the interview itself, which is left to the following chapter, and it does not yet reveal the reasons behind Raskolnikov's conduct or the Svidrigaïlov thread, which is only mentioned through Marfa Petrovna's death.
- PART III · CHAPTER IV
Chapter IV of Crime and Punishment opens with the entrance of Sonia Marmeladov into Raskolnikov's room, where his mother Pulcheria Alexandrovna, his sister Dounia, and Razumihin are present, and it closes as Raskolnikov, Razumihin and Sonia part and Raskolnikov heads toward Porfiry Petrovitch's flat. Its central concern is Raskolnikov's embarrassed and watchful handling of Sonia in front of his family, including Sonia's invitation to the funeral service and lunch for her father Marmeladov, and Pulcheria Alexandrovna's suspicion of her. Raskolnikov's plan to pawn-redeem his sister's ring and his father's silver watch, to avoid losing them to Porfiry's inquiry, sets up his visit. The chapter ends with a stranger tracking Sonia home, and Raskolnikov's fear of being exposed in front of Porfiry. Luzhin's slander and the wider murder investigation are carried into later chapters.
- PART III · CHAPTER V
Chapter V stages Raskolnikov's first encounter with the examining magistrate Porfiry Petrovitch, at Porfiry's rooms, in the presence of Razumihin and the clerk Zametov. Raskolnikov comes to claim the pawned watch and ring left with the old pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna, and the scene turns into a probing exchange: Porfiry asks about the pledges, the timing of his visits, and his recent illness and delirium, while Raskolnikov struggles to appear calm and to keep his anger in check. The argument then moves to crime and law, when Razumihin reports Raskolnikov's article on "extraordinary" men, who may transgress the law for a higher idea, and Porfiry presses him on whether such men might commit murder. Raskolnikov defends the thesis with apparent detachment but shows heightened agitation. The chapter ends with the two men leaving in silence, Porfiry's questions about the painters and the open flat leaving Raskolnikov suspicious. The trial of Nikolay and the murder itself are not resolved here.
- PART III · CHAPTER VI
Chapter VI of Part IV follows Raskolnikov and Razumihin as they walk toward Bakaleyev's lodgings and debate the police's conduct, particularly Porfiry's oddly pointed tone and Zametov's behaviour. Raskolnikov argues that Porfiry is not a fool and that the questioning about the workmen was a trap, reasoning that a cunning man is caught by a simple slip. Breaking off abruptly, he flees alone, and in the street a stranger who looks like an artisan silently accuses him, saying "Murderer!" Back in his garret, Raskolnikov drifts through fevered thoughts about Napoleon, principle, being "a louse," and his sense of guilt toward his mother, sister and Sonia. He wakes to find Svidrigaïlov watching him, and the chapter ends as that man introduces himself. The chapter leaves Svidrigaïlov's motives and the formal investigation to later parts.
- PART IV · CHAPTER I
This chapter opens Part IV with Svidrigaïlov's unexpected visit to Raskolnikov's room, which Raskolnikov at first takes for a dream. Svidrigaïlov explains his two aims: to make Raskolnikov's acquaintance and to seek his help in reaching Avdotya Romanovna, who is prejudiced against him after the garden incident in which he was accused of insulting her. He defends himself as a man undone by passion, denies responsibility for Marfa Petrovna's death from apoplexy after a bath, and speaks at length about his marriage, his debts, and the document Marfa Petrovna held over him. The conversation turns to ghosts, which he claims Marfa Petrovna has visited, and to his view of eternity as a bare, spider-filled room. He then offers ten thousand roubles to Avdotya, to break off her match with Luzhin, and reveals that Marfa Petrovna left her three thousand. Raskolnikov refuses and rejects the offer. The chapter ends as Svidrigaïlov leaves and meets Razumihin at the door; Luzhin's engagement and the wider plot are carried forward rather than resolved here.
- PART IV · CHAPTER II
Chapter II of Crime and Punishment opens at about eight o'clock as Raskolnikov and Razumihin hurry to Bakaleyev's to meet Luzhin, after Raskolnikov tells Razumihin that Svidrigaïlov has just visited him and is determined to do something. The chapter centres on the confrontation in Pulcheria Alexandrovna's rooms: Luzhin's grievance over Raskolnikov's letter-reported conduct, his insistence on an explanation about the "insult," and Dounia's demand that he be reconciled with her brother or lose her. Svidrigaïlov's history (his treatment of Philip, the deaf-mute girl, and his debts paid by Marfa Petrovna) is raised through Luzhin and Dounia, and Svidrigaïlov's intended proposal and Marfa Petrovna's three-thousand-rouble legacy are reported by Raskolnikov. The chapter ends with Luzhin storming out, vowing revenge on Raskolnikov, still believing his case might be repaired. Svidrigaïlov's proposal itself, and Raskolnikov's ongoing suspicion of him, are left to later chapters.
- PART IV · CHAPTER III
Chapter III traces the aftermath of Luzhin's dismissal from Dounia's life, moving from Pyotr Petrovitch's wounded self-regard to the Raskolnikov family's relief and fresh plans. It opens with Luzhin's vanity and his fantasy of a virtuous, grateful, poor bride whom he could mould, then shifts to the household, where Dounia, Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Razumihin feel release after the three thousand roubles from Svidrigaïlov appear. Razumihin proposes a publishing partnership and a shared flat, while Raskolnikov, cold and withdrawn, tells them he must be left alone, sends Razumihin back to them, and leaves. The chapter closes with Razumihin assuming the role of son and brother. It does not resolve Svidrigaïlov's intentions, which remain unclear, nor Raskolnikov's state of mind, both carried into later chapters.
- PART IV · CHAPTER IV
Chapter IV, in Crime and Punishment, follows Raskolnikov's late-night visit to Sonia Marmeladov's cramped room in the Kapernaumov flat, where she lives with the lodgers' wretched family. It opens with his arrival and ends as he leaves after pressing his plan on her, with Svidrigaïlov listening through the wall. The chapter's core is a long conversation: Raskolnikov probes Sonia about Katerina Ivanovna's consumption, the orphaned children, and the prospect that Sonia herself may be driven to sink into "depravity." He tests her faith, insisting she read the raising of Lazarus from the gospel of John, and she reads it through tears. He ends by announcing he has abandoned his mother and sister, calls them both "accursed," and declares he will tell her who killed Lizaveta. The chapter does not yet reveal the murderer; that disclosure and the wider police investigation are deferred to later chapters.
- PART IV · CHAPTER V
Chapter V follows Raskolnikov's summons to the department of criminal investigation, where he is kept waiting and then faces Porfiry Petrovitch alone in his study. Porfiry's rambling talk about legal method, "government quarters," the "psychological" pursuit of a suspect who will "fly straight into my mouth," and his claim that he merely wants to chat, unsettles Raskolnikov, who first suspects a trap, then grows angry and erupts, insisting he will not be tortured. Porfiry reveals knowledge of the flat visit, the bell-ringing and the blood, and offers an illness-and-delirium explanation, while Raskolnikov oscillates between fury and fear that he is being played. The chapter closes as he demands to know whether he is under suspicion and an unexpected incident interrupts the interview. The chapter does not resolve the murder itself, and the sequel leaves the surprise, Razumihin's role and the wider investigation to Chapter VI.
- PART IV · CHAPTER VI
This section of Crime and Punishment covers the sudden confession of Nikolay in Porfiry Petrovitch's office, which unsettles the interrogation of Raskolnikov. Nikolay bursts in, kneels, and declares himself the murderer of Alyona Ivanovna and Lizaveta Ivanovna with an axe, while Porfiry, bewildered, tries to establish whether he acted alone and why he ran downstairs past the porters. Porfiry dismisses Raskolnikov, who leaves with a double-edged sense of relief and threat, since Porfiry's "lead" nearly exposed him. Raskolnikov then reasons that the nervous, circumstantial case has no hard facts, and the visitor from underground returns to confess that he had only reported the visit and the blood stains, and that Porfiry had known of the flat only then. The passage ends with Raskolnikov resolving to "make a fight for it." It does not resolve Nikolay's guilt or Porfiry's later moves, which belong to subsequent parts.
- PART V · CHAPTER I
Chapter I of Crime and Punishment opens the morning after the fraught interview with Dounia and her mother, and follows Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin as his plans for marriage and his finances unravel: the German landlord refuses to return the forfeit on the flat, the upholsterers keep the instalment on the furniture, and a legal matter stalls in the senate. Luzhin's wounded vanity and his wish to win Dounia back shape the scene. The chapter then turns to his conversation with Andrey Semyonovitch Lebeziatnikov, a self-styled progressive whose talk of communes, free marriage and "protest" Luzhin mocks and yet fears as a possible threat to his business. Luzhin learns of the memorial dinner Katerina Ivanovna is preparing and of Raskolnikov's invitation, then summons Sonia Marmeladova, offers her ten roubles and proposes a subscription for the family while keeping his own name hidden. The chapter ends with Luzhin preoccupied and Lebeziatnikov noting it. Raskolnikov's own thoughts and the dinner itself are left to later chapters.
- PART V · CHAPTER II
This chapter covers the memorial dinner Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladov stages after her husband's funeral, paid for largely from the twenty roubles Raskolnikov gave. It opens with the question of why she would spend nearly all of that money on such an ostentatious meal, and the narrative explains it through her "poor man's pride," her wish to show the lodgers that she is not their inferior, and her feverish, consumptive nerves. The dinner then unravels: guests fail to appear, including Luzhin and Lebeziatnikov, drunken lodgers arrive, Katerina Ivanovna insults her landlady Amalia Ivanovna, and the two women quarrel over their fathers' social standing and the lodgings. The chapter ends as Luzhin enters the room just as the fight is at its height, so the dinner's collapse and Luzhin's arrival carry forward into the next chapter. Raskolnikov's own reasoning and his dealings with Sonia are only touched on here.
- PART V · CHAPTER III
This chapter opens with Katerina Ivanovna's frantic appeal to Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin to protect her and the orphans from Amalia Ivanovna, then moves to Luzhin's formal accusation that Sonia Marmeladova stole a hundred-rouble note from his table after her visit. The scene escalates through Sonia's bewildered denials, Katerina Ivanovna's hysterical defence, and the discovery of the note in Sonia's pocket. Lebeziatnikov then exposes Luzhin as the one who slipped the note there, and Raskolnikov supplies the motive: Luzhin hoped to discredit Sonia and so turn his betrothed's family against Raskolnikov. The chapter closes in uproar, with Luzhin's departure, Amalia Ivanovna evicting Katerina Ivanovna, and Raskolnikov heading toward Sonia's lodgings. The chapter does not treat Raskolnikov's own later role or the wider fallout beyond this evening.
- PART V · CHAPTER IV
Chapter IV opens with Raskolnikov at Sonia's lodging, still flushed from his defence of her against Luzhin, but unable to shake a dread of the confession he has promised. The chapter is built around a long, halting dialogue in which he first circles the question of Luzhin's power and Divine Providence, then moves step by step toward telling Sonia that he killed Lizaveta and the old pawnbroker. Her reactions, from tears and terror to an embrace and a plea that he kneel at the crossroads and confess, carry the scene forward, while his self-justifying account of Napoleon, the "extraordinary" man, and the "louse" theory supplies its intellectual core. The chapter ends with Lebeziatnikov knocking at the door, interrupting the exchange of crosses and the talk of Siberia. What follows, including the police pressure and the visit to the prison, is left to later chapters.
- PART V · CHAPTER V
Chapter V follows Raskolnikov and Sonia after Lebeziatnikov reports that Katerina Ivanovna has lost her mind, having been turned out by General Ivan Ivanovitch's household and now dragging the Marmeladov children onto the streets to sing and beg. Raskolnikov's visit with Dounia, who comes to him with love but whom he pushes away, is set beside his growing sense of isolation and his half-formed thought that Siberia might be easier. The chapter moves through the street scene on the canal bank, where Katerina Ivanovna collapses and dies, and ends in Sonia's room, where Svidrigaïlov reveals he lodges next door and offers to fund the orphans, hinting at what he has overheard. Key terms include Lebeziatnikov's account of madness, Sonia's lodging, the three-rouble note from the official, and the "certificate of merit." Murder investigation details and Luzhin's machinations are left to other chapters.
- PART VI · CHAPTER I
Part VI, Chapter I of Crime and Punishment opens with Raskolnikov in a fog of morbid unease and apathy after Katerina Ivanovna's death, fixated on Svidrigaïlov, whose menacing words in Sonia's room he cannot yet bring himself to resolve. The chapter follows his attendance at the requiem service, his silent contact with Sonia, and his restless wandering through the town and its taverns. A visit from Razumihin, who reports Pulcheria Alexandrovna's illness, Dounia's letter and the arrest of the real murderer, Nikolay, shifts his thinking toward Porfiry's psychological manoeuvring. The chapter ends with Porfiry himself entering the room, leaving Raskolnikov face to face with the interrogator. The section does not resolve Svidrigaïlov's intentions or Porfiry's plan, which carry into the following chapter.
- PART VI · CHAPTER II
Chapter II follows Porfiry Petrovitch's unannounced visit to Raskolnikov's room, opened with his talk about cigarettes and his claim that he came to "have it out" and explain their earlier encounters. Porfiry recounts how suspicion first fell on Raskolnikov: rumours, the pawnbroker's notes, the scene at the office, and Raskolnikov's article, which he reads as the work of a proud, feverish mind. He admits he had no hard fact, only "psychology," and that he set traps, including the search of the room and the talk with Razumihin, while privately dismissing the workman Nikolay as a suspect. Raskolnikov's agitation grows until he asks outright who the murderer is, and Porfiry answers, "You are the murderer." The chapter ends with Porfiry offering a confession in exchange for leniency, which Raskolnikov refuses, and with Porfiry's parting request for a note mentioning the stone if he attempts suicide. Later developments are left to subsequent chapters.
- PART VI · CHAPTER III
Raskolnikov, uneasy about whether Svidrigaïlov has visited Porfiry and fearing that Svidrigaïlov knows his secret and may use it against Dounia, hurries to find him and runs into him at a tavern on the X. Prospect. The chapter turns on their wary, cat-and-mouse exchange: Svidrigaïlov hid from him at the window, Raskolnikov threatens to kill him if he harms his sister, and Svidrigaïlov, half-drunk and boastful, describes his career as a gambler, his life with Marfa Petrovna, and his fear of death, while deflecting every direct question about his aims. No plan or bargain is concluded; the threat and suspicion remain, and the chapter ends as Svidrigaïlov begins to tell a story about a woman who tried to "save" him, which is the Dounia material carried forward. Porfiry's interview and Sonia's role are left to other chapters.
- PART VI · CHAPTER IV
Svidrigaïlov, speaking over wine in a restaurant to Raskolnikov, recounts his marriage history with Marfa Petrovna: the unwritten contract that let him keep mistresses while she kept him, her jealousy, and how she came to employ Dounia as governess. He narrates his pursuit of Dounia, the proposal to run away with her to Petersburg with thirty thousand roubles, and the failure that followed Marfa Petrovna's alliance with Luzhin. He also describes his new betrothal to a sixteen-year-old girl and his interest in a girl at a dancing saloon. Raskolnikov, suspicious of Svidrigaïlov's designs on his sister, presses him with questions about the rumours of a child's death and a footman, which Svidrigaïlov deflects, and the chapter ends as the two part on the street, Raskolnikov resolving to follow him. The chapter picks up from Raskolnikov's arrival at this meeting and leaves the rumours about the child and footman for later telling.
- PART VI · CHAPTER V
Chapter V of Crime and Punishment follows Raskolnikov as he trails Svidrigaïlov, who has been pursuing Dounia and has learned of Raskolnikov's secret. After a tense exchange on the street, Svidrigaïlov takes Dounia to his rooms, where he reveals that he has overheard Raskolnikov's confession to Sonia, that the murderer hid the stolen money and goods under a stone, and that the crime rested on a theory dividing mankind into ordinary and extraordinary persons. Svidrigaïlov then makes Dounia an offer: he will save her brother and provide passports if she yields to him. When she refuses, he locks the door and presses his advances, and she fires his revolver at him twice, both shots failing to kill him. Overcome, she drops the weapon, unlocks the door and flees, and Svidrigaïlov, bleeding from a grazed temple, pockets the revolver and leaves. The chapter ends there; the aftermath of the confession, Raskolnikov's later movements, and the fate of the two siblings are taken up in later chapters.
- PART VI · CHAPTER VI
Chapter VI follows Svidrigaïlov through his last day in Petersburg, from an evening of drinking, singing and a petty quarrel over a stolen teaspoon at a pleasure garden, through a storm, to his final act. He visits Sonia, leaving her three 5-per-cent bonds for herself and receipts for her siblings' provision, and urges her to hold Raskolnikov's fate in view, the choice between a bullet and Siberia. He then gives fifteen thousand roubles to his betrothed's parents, and after a feverish night in a dingy hotel, dreams of a drowned girl and wakes to a mouse-filled room and a child who seems to be a harlot in miniature. The chapter closes at dawn in a street near a tower, where he tells a police sentry he is going to America and shoots himself. Raskolnikov's confession and Dounia's situation appear only as Svidrigaïlov recalls them, and the chapter stops at the shot itself.
- PART VI · CHAPTER VII
Chapter VII follows Raskolnikov's visit to his mother Pulcheria Alexandrovna's lodging at Bakaleyev's house on the evening after his night of wandering, where his mother, who has read his article in the magazine and believes him destined for greatness, senses an impending catastrophe and embraces him, while he asks her to love him whatever she hears and to pray for him. Dounia arrives at his room, where Sofya has also been waiting, and Raskolnikov, exhausted and claiming he sought death in the Neva but could not, confesses the murder in fragments, defending it as a "superfluous" disgrace and insisting he has nothing in himself to justify confessing. He leaves to give himself up, asking Dounia to stay with their mother, and the chapter ends as he walks toward the police, questioning why he still goes. The chapter does not cover Porfiry's interrogation or the surrender itself, which follow in later chapters.
- PART VI · CHAPTER VIII
Chapter VIII follows Raskolnikov from his visit to Sonia's room, where he collects the two crosses and tells her he is going to the police, through his wandering walk toward the Hay Market and his impulsive bow to the earth in the square, to his arrival at the police office. It turns on Raskolnikov's loss of nerve and the shame he feels at using Sonia as an emotional anchor, though he cannot turn back. Sonia silently follows him through the crowd. The chapter closes with his confession to Ilya Petrovitch, the "Explosive Lieutenant," in the office, after he learns of Svidrigaïlov's suicide, which he recognises as the last link to his old life. Dounia and Sonia's earlier conversation, and the legal proceedings that follow, lie outside the chapter.
- EPILOGUE
This section is the closing portion of Crime and Punishment, opening in Siberia with the convict Rodion Raskolnikov already confined for nine months in a fortress prison, nearly eighteen months after his crime. It recounts his trial, in which he confesses fully and precisely, hides the purse and trinkets under a stone off the Voznesensky Prospect, and is sentenced to eight years of penal servitude in the second class, softened by his history of aiding a dying student's father and rescuing children from a fire. It then traces the fates of his mother, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, who dies of brain fever; of Dounia, who marries Razumihin; and of Sonia, who follows him to Siberia. The chapter closes with his illness, his inability to repent, his new sense of love, and his tentative turn toward renewal, and it explicitly leaves the story of his regeneration to a further, unwritten narrative.