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Place

Grushenka's Lodging

Also known as Grushenka's bedroom, the house where Grushenka lived.

The rooms where Grushenka lives, first mentioned when Rakitin says he overheard Dmitri from inside her bedroom. At this point the place is known only through gossip and Rakitin's claim of familiar access. It already marks Grushenka as a woman whose private rooms draw the Karamazovs, Rakitin, and town rumor into the same orbit.

VII-III. An Onion

Alyosha and Rakitin enter the lodge and find Grushenka waiting in the dark, dressed for a message she expects from Mokroe. The rooms are modest rather than luxurious, and the shuttered, candlelit drawing-room becomes the setting of Alyosha and Grushenka's onion scene.

VIII-III. Gold-Mines

Dmitri reaches the lodging after Grushenka has gone, questions Fenya in the kitchen, and learns only enough to drive his jealousy and panic further.

XI-I. At Grushenka’s

After Dmitri's arrest, the lodging becomes a quieter sickroom and refuge. Grushenka shelters Maximov on the leather sofa, receives Alyosha there, sends food to the prison, and speaks openly about Dmitri's jealousy and the coming trial.

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