Crime and Punishment Characters

Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov

The central character

Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov

Raskolnikov’s sister who is called Dounia

Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov

Raskolnikov’s mother

Marmeladov

an alcoholic who meets Raskolnikov at a bar

Katerina Ivanovna

Marmeladov’s wife who has turberculosis

Sonia

Marmeladov’s daughter who is a prostitute

Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin

wealthy, middle-aged man engaged to marry Dounia

Dmitri Prokoftch Razumihin

Raskolnikov’s loyal friend from the university.

Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigailov

Dounia’s former boss who tried to seduce her

Marfa Petrovna

Svidrigailov’s wife who is rumored to have been killed by him. She read Dounia’s letter to the entire village

Alyona Ivanovna

the pawnbroker whom Raskolnikov kills

Lizaveta Ivanovna

the pawnbroker’s half-sister who was also killed by Rodya

Porfiry Petrovitch

the brilliant, unconventional detective who becomes a formidable advesary to Raskolnikov

Praskovya Pavlovna

Raskolnikov’s landlady who reports him to tge police

Nastasya

the landlady’s servant

Ilya Petrovitch

a police officer

Zametov

clerk at the police station

Nikodim Fomitich

Chief of Police

Zossimov

a doctor who treats Raskolnikov

Dmitri and Nikolay

painters who were working at the pawnbroker’s apartment building on the day of the murders

Lebeziatnikov

the man who lives in the same building as the Marmeladov family. He exposes Luzhin’s framing of Sonia

Amalia Fyodorovna

Katerina Ivanovna’s landlady