The Margin

Place

Fyodor Pavlovitch's Garden

Also known as the kitchen garden, his father's garden, father's garden, the corner of the garden.

The locked garden behind Fyodor Pavlovitch's house, separated from the yard by a gate and enclosed by a high fence. Grigory hears groans there on a warm May night and takes the key and lantern into the garden. At first the place is a sealed domestic boundary that suddenly seems to contain something uncanny.

III-II. Lizaveta

The next account explains that Lizaveta Smerdyastchaya, despite her condition, somehow climbed over the high fence and reached the bath-house in the garden.

III-III. The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Verse

Alyosha passes near the adjoining gardens on his back-way route and finds Dmitri waiting in a neighboring garden, already watching the approaches to his father's world.

IX-V. The Third Ordeal

During the preliminary investigation, Dmitri describes climbing into the garden, standing under his father's window, giving the agreed signal, and then fleeing toward the fence. His account makes the garden central to the disputed movements of that night.

XI-VIII. The Third And Last Interview With Smerdyakov

In Smerdyakov's confession, the garden becomes the route by which Smerdyakov checks Grigory, enters through Fyodor Pavlovitch's opened door, and hides the stolen notes in an apple-tree hollow.

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