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Person

Ippolit Kirillovitch

Also known as the deputy prosecutor, the prosecutor, our prosecutor, Mr. Prosecutor, Ippolit.

Ippolit Kirillovitch is the deputy prosecutor who arrives at Mokroe with the officials after the revel is stopped. Dmitri recognizes him as the consumptive-looking trim dandy with polished boots and an expensive chronometer. In the first moments of the arrest he tries to restrain the police captain's rage and keep the charge within formal procedure.

IX-II. The Alarm

He is described as vain, irritable, intelligent, and hungry for recognition, seizing on the Karamazov case as the great criminal matter of his career.

IX-III. The Sufferings Of A Soul, The First Ordeal

During the Mokroe questioning, he presses Dmitri on motive, money, the murder facts, and the contradictions that can be entered into the protocol.

IX-VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe

He extracts damaging testimony from the Mokroe witnesses, especially around the three thousand roubles, the sixth thousand, and Dmitri's words on the road.

XI-VII. The Second Visit To Smerdyakov

Smerdyakov tells Ivan that he quietly led the prosecutor toward conclusions useful to the case against Dmitri.

XII-I. The Fatal Day

At the trial, his rivalry with Fetyukovitch and his desire to prove himself become part of the courtroom atmosphere.

XII-V. A Sudden Catastrophe

Ivan's courtroom scene troubles him, but Katerina's letter gives the prosecution a sudden triumph.

XII-IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor’s Speech.

His summation turns the facts into a psychological and national argument, ending with such strain that he nearly faints outside the courtroom.

XII-XIV. The Peasants Stand Firm

Fetyukovitch's defense answers his categories and moral claims until Ippolit rises shakily to object.

Epilogue II. For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth

His hidden-money theory sends Trifon Borissovitch searching through the inn for the supposed missing roubles.

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