Raskolnikov's mother, whose letter brings family love, debt, hope, and pressure into his room. She adores her son and tries to explain Dounia's engagement as providential without seeing how violently he will receive it. Her language is tender, anxious, and full of calculation born from poverty.
Part III, Chapter I
She reaches Petersburg and finds her son changed by illness and secrecy, though she keeps trying to read him as the Rodya she loves.
Part III, Chapter IV
She frets over her son's coldness and illness, torn between a mother's love and the hurt of being held at arm's length.
Part IV, Chapter II
She is bewildered and grieved by the breaking of Dounia's match with Luzhin, clinging to any hope left for her children.
Epilogue
After Raskolnikov's conviction, she dies without being told the full truth plainly, clinging to a confused faith in his future greatness.
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