A character in Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A self-made, vain court councillor engaged to Dounia, who means to keep her grateful and dependent, and who spitefully frames Sonia after being rejected.
Also known as: Luzhin, Pyotr Petrovitch
Inside the story
Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin is a self-made court councillor who is engaged to Dounia, Raskolnikov’s sister. Vain and calculating, he expects Dounia to remain grateful to him and dependent on his support, treating the engagement as a way to secure control within the relationship.
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