Inside the story
Meet Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin
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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A gentleman no longer young, of a stiff and portly appearance with a cautious and sour countenance; forty-five, of fairly prepossessing looks, fashionably and immaculately dressed, morbidly self-admiring.
