Crime and Punishment wasn’t born from imagination

Crime and Punishment wasn’t born from imagination — it came from the streets Dostoyevsky walked every day.
In the 1860s, St. Petersburg was a city drowning in poverty: dark alleys, cramped rooms, hungry students, and families on the edge of despair.
Dostoyevsky knew that life himself.
He was broke, suffocating under debt, and deeply influenced by the criminals he’d lived among in Siberia.

He began to wonder:
What happens when a brilliant young man, crushed by poverty, convinces himself he’s above morality?
What happens when he crosses the line?

Out of those questions, Raskolnikov was born — a student “extraordinary” in theory, but disastrously human in reality.
The murder, the fever, the paranoia… it all mirrors Dostoyevsky’s own battles with guilt, faith, and the weight of conscience.

Crime and Punishment isn’t just a story about a crime.
It’s a journey into a mind tearing itself apart — and the belief that even in the darkest soul, redemption is still possible.

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