The demons

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"Demons" (1871-1872) is probably Dostoevsky's most prophetic novel. Initially conceived as an acutely political thing, based on the writer's impressions of the "nechaev trial": a group of revolutionaries was tried for the murder of a student who decided to leave their circle, the novel far outgrew just a work on the "topic of the day." A real drama is unfolding before the eyes of readers: at the center of the story is a group of nihilists led by Pyotr Verkhovensky, who plans to raise confusion throughout Russia. The protagonist of the novel, Nikolai Stavrogin, has his own secret, his own terrible sin and his own great misfortune - he is completely devastated, and life is no longer of any interest to him. The events in the novel are swept by in a whirlwind before the reader, entangled in some kind of monstrous tangle and, as a result, are resolved by tragedy. The present in Dostoevsky's novel is closely connected with the past: he sees the origins of nihilistic moods in children in their idealist fathers, who do not know Russia at all. But the uniqueness of "Demons" is also in the fact that, using the example of these characters, Dostoevsky depicts the whole of Russia, possessed by demons - yesterday, today, tomorrow, madness haunts us.

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Publication language: Russian

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