About the book: 1970 / The novel by F. M. Dostoevsky is one of the great works of world literature. At the center of Crime and Punishment is the burning question of all 19th-century literature. This is a question about possible ways of development of the human personality in the new conditions of life that developed in Western Europe after the French bourgeois revolution and which, after the peasant reform of 1861, also established in Russia.