# Dmitri Razumikhin · the friend · ordinary goodness

a character of the CRP (Crime and Punishment) book-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Dmitri Razumikhin:CRP:de5bcc⟧

**who —** Dmitri Prokofyich Razumikhin, Raskolnikov's loyal, warm, hard-working friend.
**what —** The novel's healthy heart: poor like Rodion but generous, energetic, and decent — the life Raskolnikov could have had.
**where —** At Raskolnikov's sickbed and through the whole ordeal, and finally married to Dunya.
**why —** Because the book's darkness needs one figure of plain, active kindness to measure the rest against.
**how —** By loyalty, labour, good humour, and a furious common-sense rant against reducing men to theories.

**the seal —** I am no Napoleon and never wanted to be — I work, I love my friends, and that ordinary decency is the thing the theory despised.

> 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