Event
The Night at Mokroe
Also known as the spree, a revel, an orgy, a grand feast, the banquet, the first carousal at Mokroe, his first visit to Mokroe.
The night at Mokroe first appears as Dmitri's remembered outing with Grushenka, when he spends the money he was supposed to send away for Katerina Ivanovna. He describes champagne, gypsies, peasants made drunk, and thousands flying from his hands. The scene fixes Mokroe as the place where Dmitri's passion becomes a public spree and a private disgrace.
VIII-V. A Sudden Resolution
After learning that Grushenka has gone to Mokroe, Dmitri prepares to repeat the costly revel and brings visible money with him.
VIII-VI. “I Am Coming, Too!”
He reaches Plastunov's inn at night, orders music, girls, champagne, food, and gifts, and tries to enter Grushenka's company without making a scene.
VIII-VII. The First And Rightful Lover
The revel becomes entangled with Grushenka's former lover, the Polish guests, card play, and Dmitri's failed attempt to buy the Pole's departure.
VIII-VIII. Delirium
The feast swells into dancing, drinking, public merriment, Grushenka's confession of love for Dmitri, and then the sudden arrival of officials who charge him with his father's murder.
IX-VII. Mitya’s Great Secret. Received With Hisses
The inquiry turns the night into an accounting problem, testing how much Dmitri spent, how much he had, and whether the money can be traced to Katerina or to Fyodor Pavlovitch.
XII-IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor’s Speech.
At trial, the prosecutor interprets the Mokroe revel as passion briefly overpowering fear and conscience after the crime.
XII-XI. There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery
The defense returns to the same night to challenge the prosecution's arithmetic and the certainty with which witnesses remember Dmitri's money.
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