Crime and Punishment: A Petersburg Student and His Crime
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A former student in a Petersburg garret works out that certain men are permitted to step over the line, and then tests the proposition with an axe. What follows is not detection but a long conversation with an examining magistrate who has no evidence and all the time in the world. Dostoevsky was writing against a gambling debt and had contracted to finish a second novel in the same months. A hundred plates from 1760 to 1925, among them Kotzebue and Polenov, follow the Petersburg streets, courtyards and reading rooms that frame the student's long argument with his examiner.
A former student in a Petersburg garret works out that certain men are permitted to step over the line, and then tests the proposition with an axe. What follows is not detection but a long conversation with an examining magistrate who has no evidence and all the time in the world. Dostoevsky was ...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist whose work probes faith, guilt and the mind under pressure. Arrested at twenty-seven for belonging to a liberal circle, he was subjected to a mock execution and spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, an ordeal that reshaped his writing. Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov followed, and made him one of the most influential novelists ever to write.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist whose work probes faith, guilt and the mind under pressure. Arrested at twenty-seven for belonging to a liberal circle, he was subjected to a mock execution and spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, an ordeal that reshaped his writing. Cr...
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