The family of Rodion Raskolnikov plays an important role in the novel Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Members of the Raskolnikov family are the central characters of the work. At the time of the events described in the novel, the Raskolnikov family was from:
- Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is the main character of the novel
, a poor student. (Quotes) - Avdotya (Dunya) Romanovna Raskolnikova is Rodion’s sister
, a poor but educated girl. (Quotes) - Pulcheria Aleksandrovna Raskolnikova - mother of Rodion
, kind, honest, but poor widow
The novel also mentions the father of the family who died several years ago:
- Roman Raskolnikov is Rodion's father
, who died several years before the events described in the novel.
Rodion Raskolnikov
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is the main character of the novel Crime and Punishment. A former law student at St. Petersburg University. At the time of the story, Rodion Raskolnikov was 23 years old, 3 of which he lived in St. Petersburg. A few months before the events described in the novel, due to lack of funds, he was forced to leave his studies at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University: “I studied, but I could not support myself at the university and was forced to leave for a while.” — Part 5, Chapter IV
Being in extreme poverty, because of which his entire family suffered, Raskolnikov, having secured his theory, decides to commit a crime - the murder of an old money-lender for the purpose of robbery:
“He forgot to close the door behind him, but he killed, killed two, according to the theory. He killed, and he didn’t manage to take the money, and what he managed to grab, he took down under a stone.” — Part 6, chapter II. Investigator Porfiry Petrovich
Vladimir Koshevoy as Raskolnikov in the series “Crime and Punishment” (2007)
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Raskolnikov's mother
Pulcheria Alexandrovna is Rodion's mother, who loved her son with all her heart. She represents a simple Russian woman who was not only a good and affectionate mother who loved her children. The author shows the reader that Pulcheria looked good, despite her age, as well as her ugly and unkempt clothes.
The main character's mother was compliant and could always agree to a lot. However, despite this, she was an honest person and it was this trait that did not allow her to overstep herself.
The Raskolnikov family in the novel “Crime and Punishment” appeared before the reader as poor but honest. Its members were ready to do anything for each other.
Dunya - Raskolnikov's sister
Avdotya (Dunya) Romanovna Raskolnikova is the younger sister of Rodion Raskolnikov.
A 22-year-old girl with an attractive appearance. Despite the fact that the heroine is in the position of a homeless woman, there are more than enough people who want to possess the hand and heart of this slender, black-eyed and dark-haired girl with a proud gaze. “Avdotya Romanovna was remarkably good-looking - tall, amazingly slender, strong, self-confident, which was expressed in her every gesture and which, however, did not in the least take away from her movements the softness and gracefulness.” — Part 3, Chapter I
She survived the humiliating advances of the married landowner Svidrigailov, when she lived on his estate as a governess, and the aggressive persecution of the same, but already widowed Svidrigailov, in St. Petersburg:
“...dared to make an obvious and vile proposal to Dunya, promising her various rewards and, on top of that, to give up everything and go with her to another village or, perhaps, abroad.” — Part 1, Chapter III. About Svidrigailov, from a letter from his mother to Raskolnikov
Wanting to pull her mother out of poverty and help her brother finish his studies at the university, Dunya almost decided to marry the slippery type Luzhin, who wanted to marry a girl who would be “obliged” to him.
“... Avdotya Romanovna’s beauty and education amazed him; her helpless position provoked him to the extreme. Here there appeared even a little more than what he had dreamed of: a proud, characterful, virtuous girl appeared, with education and development superior to him (he felt this), and such and such a creature would be slavishly grateful to him all his life for his feat and would reverently annihilate himself before him , and he will rule limitlessly and completely!..” - Part 4, Chapter III. About Luzhin
At the end of the novel, she breaks off her engagement with Luzhin and becomes the wife of Dmitry Prokofich Razumikhin, his brother’s faithful friend.
Katerina Vasilyeva as Dunya Raskolnikova in the TV series “Crime and Punishment” (2007)
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The role of Rodion's family in Crime and Punishment
Throughout the entire novel, the reader experiences not hostility, but pity for the main character of the work “Crime and Punishment.” The Raskolnikov family was in a difficult situation. Duna, Pulcheria and Rodion constantly had to endure various shocks and difficult situations.
The fate of the Raskolnikov family is not easy, and therefore makes every reader feel pity and sympathy. Throughout their lives, these people had to fight for themselves and their loved ones, go through difficult trials, but at the same time take care of their honor and live fairly. The role of Raskolnikov’s family in the novel is that with its help the author can draw the reader’s attention to how relationships with loved ones can influence A good family, in which mutual understanding and love reign, can give peace and true happiness.
Raskolnikova Pulcheria Alexandrovna
(“Crime and Punishment”), mother of Rodion Romanovich and Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov. “Despite the fact that Pulcheria Alexandrovna was already forty-three years old, her face still retained remnants of her former beauty, and besides, she seemed much younger than her years, which almost always happens with women who have retained clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions and honest, pure heat of the heart until old age. Let's say in parentheses that preserving all this is the only way not to lose your beauty even in old age. Her hair was already beginning to turn gray and thin, small radiant wrinkles had long appeared around her eyes, her cheeks were sunken and dry from care and grief, and yet this face was beautiful. It was a portrait of Dunechka’s face, only twenty years later, and besides the expression of her lower lip, which did not protrude forward. Pulcheria Alexandrovna was sensitive, but not to the point of cloying, timid and compliant, but to a certain point: she could give in a lot, could agree to a lot, even that which contradicted her convictions, but there was always such a trait of honesty, rules and extreme convictions, beyond which no circumstances could force her to step..."
On the eve of his crime, Rodion Raskolnikov received from his mother a detailed letter with sad news: Dunya scandalously left her position as a governess in Svidrigailov’s house, because of the latter’s lustful advances, and was forced to marry a certain Mr. Luzhin, judging by some simple-minded reservations of Pulcheria Alexandrovna, a scoundrel. and hoarding. This message finally inspired Rodion to complete his plan - to kill the old pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna in order to prevent the self-sacrifice of sister Dunya. The next day after the murder, Rodion receives from his mother a transfer for 35 rubles (“from the last money”), with part of which Razumikhin manages to buy him more or less decent clothes, and he will give the rest to the Marmeladov family. And soon Pulcheria Alexandrovna and her daughter themselves, at the behest and desire of Luzhin, come to St. Petersburg, and all the last days before Rodion’s confession they are close - both tormenting and supporting him.
Pulcheria Alexandrovna never fully realized or understood the catastrophe of her son (and, apparently, she did not want to understand, she was afraid): she fell ill with a nervous illness “like insanity”, it would seem that she believed that Rodya had gone somewhere far away, "abroad". She still managed to bless Dunya for her marriage to Razumikhin and soon died “in the heat and delirium.” In her dying delirium, “words escaped from her, from which one could conclude that she was much more suspicious of her son’s terrible fate.”
In the name of Raskolnikov’s mother one can discern a connection with the heroine of N.V. Gogol’s “Old World Landowners” - Pulcheria Ivanovna.
Pulcheria Alexandrovna is the mother of the main character of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment, Rodion Raskolnikov. The woman does not have a husband; he died many years ago; she had to raise her two children, Rodion and Dunyasha, on her own.
Pulcheria Alexandrovna receives a pension; she also often does needlework and embroidery at home, putting her work up for sale in order to somehow help her children. She regularly helps her son financially. Pulcheria Alexandrovna even moved to St. Petersburg in order to be closer to her son and be able to provide all possible assistance.
The author does not say much about the appearance of Pulcheria Alexandrovna. But we can note that the woman was forty-three years old, but despite her age, she looked quite young. Pulcheria Alexandrovna always dressed neatly. Her hair was already beginning to turn grey, and her cheeks were sunken. The author also says that he and Dunya were very similar.
The woman madly loves Raskolnikov, investing all her strength and resources in him. It is worth saying that Rodion Raskolnikov also loves his mother very much, listens to her advice, and helps her.
The author describes Pulcheria Alexandrovna as an incredibly sensitive, kind-hearted woman, but at the same time, she performed all her thoughts based on strong and honest motives. She almost never resorts to lies, believing that you should always tell only the truth.
After her son was convicted, the woman becomes seriously ill. Her illness is associated with major psychological disorders. She does not know the whole truth about her son, but she has a presentiment and guesses about what happened. They carefully hide from her that her son killed a man, saying that he must urgently leave for a long time. Her heart feels that something irreparable has happened. Even before the trial, she understood that something wrong was happening to Rodion.
Based on all of the above, we can conclude that Pulcheria Alexandrovna was an incredibly responsive, kind woman who loves her children incredibly much and, if possible, gives them everything she can. Even though this woman is not the main character, but plays a secondary role, her importance in the work is quite great.
Pulcheria Alexandrovna - Raskolnikov's mother
Raskolnikova Pulcheria Alexandrovna is one of the bright secondary heroines of the novel “Crime and Punishment” by Dostoevsky.
Mother of Rodion Raskolnikov and Dunya. A needy widow and defenseless woman, 43 years old. She had another child, but he died in infancy. “Despite the fact that Pulcheria Alexandrovna was already forty-three years old, her face still retained remnants of its former beauty, and besides, she seemed much younger than her years, which almost always happens with women who have retained clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions and honest , pure heat of the heart until old age.” — Part 3, chapter I
At the time of the story, she and her daughter are moving to St. Petersburg. Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna receives a pension upon the death of her husband of 120 rubles a year, she is forced to earn extra money by doing small jobs, embroidering arm ruffles, and selling scarves.
“She knits winter scarves there and embroiders armlets, ruining her old eyes. But scarves only add twenty rubles a year to one hundred and twenty rubles.” — Part 1, chapter IV
At the same time, Pulcheria Alexandrovna does her best to help her student son. She sends him the lion's share of her pension and goes into debt for the sake of her son. The woman hopes that Rodion, having received a lawyer’s education, will help the family get out of poverty:
“... there is such a mother that out of her hundred-twenty-five-ruble pension, even if she herself won’t eat, she will help Rodenka out...” - Part 1, Chapter III
After Raskolnikov's trial, the woman falls ill and dies.
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Mother of Rodion Romanovich and Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov. “Despite the fact that Pulcheria Alexandrovna was already forty-three years old, her face still retained remnants of its former beauty, and besides, she seemed much younger than her years, which almost always happens with women who have retained clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions and honest, pure heat of the heart until old age. Let's say in parentheses that preserving all this is the only way not to lose your beauty even in old age. Her hair was already beginning to turn gray and thin, small radiant wrinkles had long appeared around her eyes, her cheeks were sunken and dry from care and grief, and yet this face was beautiful. It was a portrait of Dunechka’s face, only twenty years later, and besides the expression of her lower lip, which did not protrude forward. Pulcheria Alexandrovna was sensitive, but not to the point of cloying, timid and compliant, but to a certain point: she could give in a lot, she could agree to a lot, even that which contradicted her convictions, but there was always such a trait of honesty, rules and extreme convictions, beyond which no circumstances could force her to step..."
On the eve of his crime, Rodion Raskolnikov received from his mother a detailed letter with sad news: Dunya scandalously left her position as a governess in Svidrigailov’s house, because of the latter’s lustful advances, and was forced to marry a certain Mr. Luzhin, judging by some simple-minded reservations of Pulcheria Alexandrovna, a scoundrel. and hoarding. This message finally inspired Rodion to complete his plan - to kill the old pawnbroker Alena Ivanovna in order to prevent the self-sacrifice of sister Dunya. The next day after the murder, Rodion receives from his mother a transfer for 35 rubles (“from the last money”), with part of which Razumikhin manages to buy him more or less decent clothes, and he will give the rest to the Marmeladov family. And soon Pulcheria Alexandrovna and her daughter themselves, at the behest and desire of Luzhin, come to St. Petersburg, and all the last days before Rodion’s confession they are close - both tormenting and supporting him.
Pulcheria Alexandrovna never fully realized or understood the catastrophe of her son (and, apparently, she did not want to understand, she was afraid): she fell ill with a nervous illness “like insanity”, it would seem that she believed that Rodya had gone somewhere far away, "abroad". She still managed to bless Dunya for her marriage to Razumikhin and soon died “in the heat and delirium.” In her dying delirium, “words escaped from her, from which one could conclude that she was much more suspicious of her son’s terrible fate.”
In the name of Raskolnikov’s mother one can discern a connection with the heroine of “Old World Landowners” N.V. Gogol - Pulcheria Ivanovna.
Roman Raskolnikov - father of Rodion Raskolnikov
Roman Raskolnikov, the father of Rodion Raskolnikov, died several years before the events described in the novel Crime and Punishment.
He was probably a minor official or military man. It is known that his widow, Pulcheria Alexandrovna, received a pension upon the death of her husband in the amount of 120 rubles a year: “... they add one hundred and twenty rubles, I know that.” — Part 1, Chapter IV
He died when his son Rodion was at least 7 years old (in his dream about a horse, Rodion Raskolnikov sees exactly the period when he is 7 years old and his father is still alive):
“Raskolnikov had a terrible dream. He dreamed of his childhood, back in their town. He is about seven years old and is walking on a holiday, in the evening, with his father outside the city.” — Part 1, Chapter V
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Essay: The Raskolnikov family in the novel “Crime and Punishment” (F. M. Dostoevsky)
(400 words) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky did not ignore the topic of family values in his work. This can also be seen in the novel Crime and Punishment, where the Raskolnikov family plays a fairly important role. It consists of the widow Pulcheria Alexandrovna, her daughter Avdotya and son Rodion.
Raskolnikov's mother was an honest, but soft and compliant woman. Her love for her son knew no bounds. Getting into debt, she was ready to give Rodion her last penny. The main character's sister, Avdotya Romanovna, was younger than her brother, but this did not prevent her from having a strong character. The author also notes that Dunya looks similar to Rodion. The story about the life of his relatives begins with a letter that the young man received from his mother from the R-th province. Dostoevsky describes in detail their financial situation, which became so bad that the sister had to work as a governess for the Svidrigailovs, taking one hundred rubles in advance, of which they sent sixty to Raskolnikov. For the sake of her brother, the girl endured the advances of Mr. Svidrigailov, and then completely left home in disgrace. The eternal lack of money forces Dunya to marry Luzhin, but she is ready to sacrifice even her personal happiness in the name of the family. It was these circumstances that prompted Rodion to move from theory to practice. The young man feels responsible to his loved ones for not being able to provide for them and give them a decent life.
It is also worth paying attention to how Raskolnikov prepared to read the letter.
With excitement and trepidation, he brought it to his lips and kissed it. His hands trembled and his heart sank.
Dostoevsky masterfully used the technique of psychologism and showed how much Rodion loved his family. And she answered him in kind, because at the end of the novel, Raskolnikov’s mother fell ill. The illness was not so much physical as mental. After the verdict, Dostoevsky shows the reader that Raskolnikov’s heart was bleeding. He was tormented by his mother's torment. With tears, Pulcheria Alexandrovna told fictitious stories that Rodya had left and perhaps he had enemies, and assured that he had come to her to say goodbye. After the wedding of Dunya and Razumikhin, Pulcheria Alexandrovna decided that Rodion was about to arrive. She spent the whole day cleaning and constantly fantasizing about meeting her son. At night she had a fever again. Two weeks later, Raskolnikov’s mother died, unable to withstand the mental anguish. Dunya bravely survived her brother’s crime. Although the girl had an unshakably negative attitude towards murder and its theory, she was a believer and could not help but shake hands with the one she loved with all her heart.
Describing the Raskolnikov family, Dostoevsky showed what an important role it plays in the life of every person, how it can influence his behavior and choices in the future.
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Rodion Raskolnikov - the main character of the novel
Rodion Raskolnikov
- the central character of the work. The young man has an attractive appearance. “By the way, he was remarkably good-looking, with beautiful dark eyes, dark-haired, above average height, thin and slender.” An extraordinary mind, a proud character, sick pride and a miserable existence are the reasons for the hero’s criminal behavior. Rodion highly values his abilities, considers himself an exceptional person, dreams of a great future, but his financial situation has a depressing effect on him. He has nothing to pay for studying at the university, and does not have enough money to pay off his landlady. The young man's clothes attract the attention of passers-by with their shabby and old appearance. Trying to cope with the circumstances, Rodion Raskolnikov goes to kill the old pawnbroker. Thus, he is trying to prove to himself that he belongs to the highest class of people and can step over blood. “Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right,” he thinks. But one crime leads to another. An innocent, wretched woman is dying. The hero's theory about the right of a strong personality leads to a dead end. Only Sonya's love awakens his faith in God and revives him to life. Raskolnikov's personality consists of opposite qualities. An indifferent, cruel killer gives his last pennies for the funeral of a stranger, interferes in the fate of a young girl, trying to save her from dishonor.
