A journeyman house-painter connected with the building where Alyona and Lizaveta are murdered. He enters the case through confused evidence about earrings, flight, and guilt. Before he is fully seen, he is already useful to everyone else's theories.
Part IV, Chapter V
He interrupts Porfiry's pressure on Raskolnikov by confessing to the murders, a confession Porfiry understands as psychologically serious but factually false.
Part VI, Chapter IV
Porfiry explains Nikolay's confession as a religious taking-on of suffering rather than proof of guilt.
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