A forty-five-year-old businessman and lawyer who wants to maintain a place in society as a respectable bourgeois with high pretensions and his money. He dreams that his future wife should be poor and crushed enough to see him as a savior, yet beautiful and educated like a queen. This is why he becomes engaged to Dunya. The moment his self-constructed fantasy of power is interfered with by Raskolnikov, he goes mad with vanity and concocts base slanders to ruin that family. He even secretly hides his own one-hundred-ruble note in Sonya's pocket to frame her for theft in order to drive a wedge between Raskolnikov and his family and assert dominance.
Someone who relies on the monetary power he earned from scratch, believing he will rise by throwing himself from the provinces into St. Petersburg, the heart of high society. He has made it his life's purpose to use his financial power to subjugate someone superior to him in education and lineage. He reached Dunya through Marfa Petrovna.
Neat, about 45 years old but trying to look younger. He wears bright, new clothes with carefully combed hair and sideburns. He favors light colors (lilac gloves, etc.) in his new outfits and has a highly flashy yet artificial, eye-catching bourgeois aesthetic.
Avdotya Romanovna (Dunya)
His prospective wife, but also the woman he wanted to rule like a slave.
Sonya Semyonovna Marmeladova
The innocent victim he found to be the weakest link to strike at Raskolnikov, and whom he conspired against.
Rodion Romanoviç Raskolnikov
His bloody enemy, whom he wants to tear to pieces because he loathes his disrespect and was humiliated by it.
Andrey Semyonoviç Lebezyatnikov
The roommate, whom he harbored and used in Petersburg circles to appear modern, but who ultimately exposes him.