Crime and punishment

"Crime and punishment" (1866) is one of the most significant works in the history of world literature. It's a deep philosophical novel, and a subtle psychological drama, and a fascinating detective, and majestic picture of the gloomy city, in the depths of which the characters sin and seek forgiveness, sacrifice and deny ourselves for the sake of our neighbors and find peace in humility, repentance, faith. The protagonist of the novel Rodion Raskolnikov decides to murder to prove to himself and the world that he is not "loathsome creature" and "right". The main subject of the writer's study becomes a process of becoming respectable, intelligent and kind young man's murderer, and how committed the crime Raskolnikov can atone.
"Crime and punishment" has been screened numerous times, the music for the ballet was written by Tchaikovsky, and recently one of the Moscow sites on the novel was staged rock Opera.