Also known as The Karamazovs' house, Fyodor Pavlovitch’s house.
Fyodor Pavlovitch's House is the infamous home where Sofya Ivanovna suffers through her marriage and where Ivan is staying when he returns to the district. It is less a family home than the disordered center of Fyodor Pavlovitch's appetites, money, and evasions.
III-I. In The Servants’ Quarters
The house is shown as an old gray, two-story building with a red iron roof, a separate lodge for the servants, and more room than the reduced Karamazov household needs.
III-VI. Smerdyakov
Its drawing room, with red upholstery, mirrors, portraits, icons, coffee, brandy, and Smerdyakov's service, becomes the setting for a tense family meal.
III-IX. The Sensualists
Dmitri bursts into the house searching for Grushenka, strikes Grigory, and beats Fyodor Pavlovitch before Ivan and Alyosha pull him away.
VIII-IV. In The Dark
Dmitri comes through the back garden at night, watches the lighted bedroom window, gives the secret signal, and flees after striking Grigory by the fence.
IX-II. The Alarm
The house is opened as the murder scene: Fyodor Pavlovitch is found dead on the floor, the envelope for Grushenka is empty, and the brass pestle is recovered in the garden.
XI-VIII. The Third And Last Interview With Smerdyakov
Smerdyakov reconstructs the murder for Ivan, saying he used Fyodor Pavlovitch's fear and the Grushenka signal to enter, kill him, and hide the money.
XII-XII. And There Was No Murder Either
At the trial, the house layout, open door, window, garden path, and servants' testimony become central to the defense's challenge to the official reconstruction.
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