A character in Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The mean, wealthy old pawnbroker whom Raskolnikov murders with an axe, the object of his theory that killing a worthless louse could serve a greater good.
Inside the story
Alyona Ivanovna is an elderly, wealthy pawnbroker in St. Petersburg, lending money against valuables and dealing harshly with those who come to her. She is known to Raskolnikov, a poor former student whose troubled ideas about society place her in his thoughts.
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