Crime and Punishment. Collector's Illustrated Edition

"Crime and Punishment" is one of the most significant works in the history of world literature. The novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky presents the reader with crucial moral and philosophical questions about faith, conscience, sin, and redemption through suffering. Conceived as a "psychological report of a crime", Dostoevsky's novel emerges as a grand artistic and philosophical exploration of human nature, a Christian tragedy about the death and resurrection of the soul. The new collector's edition reveals the religious, social, and philosophical symbolism of this immortal work. It narrates the biography of Fyodor Mikhailovich and the history of the creation of this global masterpiece. Authentic facts from the investigative cases of pre-revolutionary Russia are presented. The most fascinating events of the philosophical polyphonic novel created by Dostoevsky are interwoven with the real lives of people and transposed onto the streets of the most beautiful city in the world. The book features rare views of St. Petersburg, taken at the very beginning of the emergence of photography in Russia, in the second half of the 19th century. No less interesting are the documentary testimonies of that time. The work on the additional materials was carried out with the assistance of the staff of the F.M. Dostoevsky Museum-Apartment.