# Dunya Raskolnikova · the sister · the unbought

a character of the CRP (Crime and Punishment) book-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Dunya Raskolnikova:CRP:04c4a7⟧

**who —** Avdotya ‘Dunya’ Romanovna Raskolnikova, Raskolnikov's proud, beautiful, fiercely moral sister.
**what —** The counter-example of strength with conscience: she will sell herself in marriage to help her brother but will not sell her soul, and faces down Svidrigailov with a pistol.
**where —** From the provinces to Petersburg, into Razumikhin's steady love.
**why —** Because the novel needs a will as strong as Raskolnikov's that does <i>not</i> break the moral law — proof the theory was never necessary.
**how —** By integrity, courage, and a refusal of both Luzhin's contempt and Svidrigailov's coercion.

**the seal —** My brother thought strength meant standing above the law; I was as strong as he, and I never once stepped over it.

> a catalogued personification of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866, public domain) under the DLW standard —
> literary commentary and cataloguing, not an original creation.

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · CRP · Crime and Punishment · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0