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Dostoyevsky works
YGK These Works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Former law student in St. Petersburg who murders a pawnbroker to prove he is an "extraordinary" person | Rodion Raskolnikov |
| Drunkard whose daughter Sonya moves Raskolnikov to confess his crimes | Semyon Marmeladov |
| Raskolnikov’s sister who was a governess for Svidrigailov and engaged to Luzhin | Dunya |
| Pawnbroker and her sister murdered by Raskolnikov | Alyona and Lizaveta |
| Historical figure Raskolnikov uses as an example of a person allowed to commit crimes for the greater good | Napoleon |
| Detective who hounds Raskolnikov throughout Crime and Punishment | Porfiry Petrovich |
| Biblical story read by Sonya that moves Raskolnikov toward redemption | Lazarus rising from the dead |
| Opening lines of Notes from Underground | I am a sick man…I am a spiteful man |
| Utopian ideal in Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s What Is to Be Done? criticized in Notes from Underground | The Crystal Palace |
| Reason the Underground Man buys an expensive coat to bump into an officer | To exact revenge for being belittled |
| Three brothers who return to their father Fyodor to settle their inheritance | Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov |
| Parable recounted by Ivan Karamazov involving a figure kissed by Jesus Christ | The Grand Inquisitor |
| Object used by an angel to rescue a drowning man in a story told by Grushenka | An onion |
| Servant speculated to be the illegitimate child of Fyodor Karamazov who instigates a cruel prank on a dog | Smerdyakov |
| Epileptic prince and "positively good man" who returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium | Prince Myshkin |
| Merchant who competes with Myshkin for the affection of Nastasya Filippovna | Rogozhin |
| Painting by Hans Holbein that Ippolit pontificates on before his suicide attempt | The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb |
| Object Myshkin accidentally breaks during a dinner party, leading to his social disapproval | Chinese vase |
| Radical nihilist who attempts to convince Nikolai Stavrogin to join his movement | Pyotr Stepanovich |
| Censored chapter of Demons restored and translated by Virginia Woolf | At Tikhon’s |
| Epistolary novel featuring the correspondence of second cousins Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova | Poor Folk |
| Gogol story that offends Makar Devushkin because he finds the protagonist too similar to himself | The Overcoat |
| Rich widower who proposes to Varvara, leaving Devushkin in squalor | Mr. Bykov |
| St. Petersburg "dreamer" who saves a girl named Nastenka from harassment | Unnamed narrator of “White Nights” |
| Opera performance the lodger invited Nastenka to see in “White Nights” | The Barber of Seville |
| Tutor who plays roulette for the General’s family and squanders his fortune | Alexei Ivanovich |
| The General’s stepdaughter who challenges Alexei to prove his love by insulting a Baron | Polina |
| The Marquis whom Polina reveals to be her lover and her father's creditor | Marquis des Grieux |
| Frenchwoman who manipulates Alexei into spending his winnings before leaving him for the General | Mademoiselle Blanche de Cominges |
| Stenographer who helped Dostoevsky write The Gambler in less than a month and later became his wife | Anna Snitkina |
| Bureaucrat in St. Petersburg who encounters a man that looks exactly like him | Yakov Golyadkin |
| Physician who advises Golyadkin to socialize and later drags him to an asylum | Doctor Rutenspitz |
| Woman whose birthday party Golyadkin is kicked out of after trying to sneak in | Klara Olsufyevna |
| Golyadkin’s servant who argues with him over which Golyadkin is the true "master" | Petrushka |
| Lodger in "An Honest Thief" who tells a story about a thief he once knew | Astafy Ivanovich |
| Alcoholic thief who is the subject of Astafy Ivanovich’s story | Emelyan Ilyitch |
| Object stolen by Emelyan that leads to a falling out with Astafy | A pair of riding breeches |
| Emelyan's final act before dying in Astafy’s care | Confessing to the theft |
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