Also known as Snegiryov, Nikolay Ilyitch Snegiryov, Nikolay Ilyitch, the wisp of tow.
Captain Snegiryov is first named in the scandal at Father Zossima's cell, when Fyodor Pavlovitch accuses Dmitri of publicly beating a poor discharged captain. Dmitri admits the outward fact but insists that the captain had been used in Fyodor's business against him. At this horizon, Snegiryov is a poor former officer whose humiliation is dragged into the Karamazov quarrel before the monks.
IV-VI. A Laceration In The Cottage
Alyosha finds Snegiryov in a cramped, stuffy cottage room with his sick wife, disabled daughter, sharp-tongued student daughter, and feverish son Ilusha. Snegiryov meets him with wild politeness, shame, and theatrical defiance.
IV-VII. And In The Open Air
Out in the open air, Snegiryov describes how Ilusha saw Dmitri drag him by the beard through the marketplace. He accepts Katerina Ivanovna's money in imagination, dreams of saving his family with it, then tramples the notes into the sand because he cannot sell the family's shame.
X-V. By Ilusha’s Bedside
As Ilusha's illness worsens, Snegiryov forgets much of his pride and accepts help from Katerina Ivanovna. He waits on the visiting schoolboys with desperate joy, hoping their affection will restore his son.
X-VII. Ilusha
After the Moscow doctor gives almost no hope, Snegiryov breaks down in the passage and repeats that he wants no other good boy in Ilusha's place.
Epilogue III. Ilusha’s Funeral. The Speech At The Stone
At Ilusha's funeral, Snegiryov clings to the coffin, the flowers, the bread for the sparrows, and the boy's little boots. His grief becomes the final living wound around which Alyosha gathers the schoolboys at Ilusha's stone.
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