A character in Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
The complacent young doctor and friend of Razumihin who attends the feverish Raskolnikov and takes a clinical interest in his mental state.
Also known as: Zossimov
Inside the story
Zossimov is a young doctor and a friend of Razumihin. At the story’s outset, he is attending to the feverish Raskolnikov, whose troubled condition draws Zossimov’s calm, clinical interest in his mental state.
A tall, fat man of twenty-seven with a puffy, colourless, clean-shaven face and straight flaxen hair; wearing spectacles and a big gold ring, dressed in a fashionable loose light-grey coat with irreproachable linen and a massive watch-chain.
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