Inside the story
Meet Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov
Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov is a destitute former law student living in Petersburg. Called Rodya or Rodka by those who know him, he is caught between his ideas about moral law and the harsh pressures of poverty.
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A young man, exceptionally handsome, above the average in height, slim and well-built, with beautiful dark eyes and dark brown hair and a refined face; at the story's outset gaunt and haggard, dressed in rags so tattered a respectable man would be ashamed to be seen in them.
