The Margin

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Petersburg

Petersburg first appears as the city where Adelaida Ivanovna goes after leaving Fyodor Pavlovitch. It is not yet a scene of direct action, but a far-off urban refuge tied to emancipation, poverty, and death. Against the provincial Karamazov world, it reads as a remote capital of escape and rumor.

III-II. Lizaveta

The news of Adelaida's death is again associated with Petersburg, fixing the city as part of Fyodor's first family disgrace.

VI-I. Father Zossima And His Visitors

Zossima's youth connects Petersburg with education, military formation, and the wider world beyond the monastery town.

XI-I. At Grushenka’s

The city becomes the source of the famous outside defense counsel brought in for Dmitri's case.

XII-XIV. The Peasants Stand Firm

By the end of the trial, Petersburg polish and courtroom technique are part of how the town judges the defense's performance.

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