![]() ![]() Zosima is also routinely visited by women-both peasants and members of the upper-class. They’re accompanied by Dmitri’s cousin, Pyotr Alexandrovich Miusov. One day, the Karamazovs visit the monastery. The three Karamazov boys take different paths, though all are alike in their determination to distinguish themselves from their father: Dmitri becomes a military man, Ivan is a well-regarded intellectual and journalist, and Alexei enters the monastery and falls under the tutelage of the revered Zosima, the Elder. ![]() He frequently conducted orgies in his home, spent much of his time drunk, and forgot about all three of his children, who were left in the care of his servant, Grigory Vasilievich. Fyodor is also the probable father of his cook and “lackey,” Smerdyakov, due to a brief liaison with the “holy fool” and unwashed itinerant, nicknamed “ Stinking Lizaveta.” Marriage and fatherhood didn’t quell Fyodor’s sensual appetites. Lizaveta Smerdyashchaya (“Stinking Lizaveta”)įyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is a twice-married “old buffoon” from the town of Skotoprigonyevsk and the patriarch of the Karamazov clan, which includes his three legitimate sons- Dmitri, Ivan, and Alexei.Agrafena “Grushenka” Alexandrovna Svetlov. ![]()
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