Person
Sofya Ivanovna
Also known as my wife, the crazy one, the poor "crazy woman", the unhappy wife, second wife, orphan girl, poor child, unhappy young woman, her Sofya, Alyosha's mother, the crazy woman, crazy woman, poor “crazy woman”.
Sofya Ivanovna is Fyodor Pavlovitch's second wife, a deacon's orphan raised in misery by The General's Widow. She is very young, meek, and beautiful when Fyodor Pavlovitch elopes with her, and his household soon becomes a place of humiliation and terror for her. She bears Ivan and Alexey before dying while Alexey is still a small child.
I-IV. The Third Son, Alyosha
Alyosha remembers her as a beautiful, frenzied figure praying before an icon in the sunset, and Grigory has kept her grave decently marked.
III-I. In The Servants’ Quarters
Grigory's defense of Sofya Ivanovna has become a sacred memory to him, and he still will not bear light talk about her.
III-VIII. Over The Brandy
When Fyodor Pavlovitch drunkenly recalls her at his own table, Alyosha suddenly breaks into the very hysterical fit she was said to suffer, and the old man is struck by how exactly the son resembles his dead mother. Ivan cuts in with cold anger to remind him that she was his mother too.
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