The Margin

Place

Krassotkin House

Also known as her neat little house.

The Krassotkin house is the neat little home where Madame Krassotkin raises Kolya in respectable seclusion. It stands near the market-place, close to Plotnikov's shop, and its order reflects the widow's anxious care. The house also contains Kolya's father's books, which feed the boy's precocious reading and theories.

X-II. Children

Kolya is left in charge of the house while the adults are absent and the lodger children wait in the adjoining rooms. The passage, bench, and rooms become a little domestic stage for Perezvon's discipline and the children's fears.

X-IV. The Lost Dog

Kolya's height mark at home becomes part of his anxious self-image before meeting Alyosha. The same house holds the satchel, whistle, dog, and schoolboy props with which he stages himself for the visit.

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