Study of Ivan and Smerdyakov at a wooden gate beneath the moon: one man turns through the gate while the other stands beside the fence.
Ivan Karamazov and SmerdyakovAI-generated study after Boris Grigoriev’s illustration.

Of the House of Karamazov

Ivan Fyodorovitch Karamazov


The second son, by Sofya. A cold intellectual who argues that without God everything is permitted — then meets a man who acted on it.

The second son, by Sofya. Raised on charity, a gifted writer and a sceptic; nobody can quite explain why he has come to stay with his father.

Not yet met at your place in the book: first appears in Bk I, ch. 3.

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Ivan FyodorovitchFormal · 59

IvanNeutral · 655


Fyodorovitch — child of Fyodor

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