The Raw Youth - Characters

Characters

  • Arkady Makarovich Dolgoruky is the protagonist of the novel. He took the name Dolgoruky from his aged adoptive father, even though he is the illegitimate son of the dissipated landowner Versilov. Arkady's dream is to "become a Rothschild" (i.e. become fabulously wealthy like the historical Baron James Rothschild). In his quest for wealth Arkady becomes entangled with socialist conspirators and a young widow, whose future is somehow dependent on a document that Arkady has sewn into his jacket.
  • Makar Ivanovich Dolgoruky is an aging peasant and Arkady's legal father. He is a respected wandering religious pilgrim.
  • Andrei Petrovich Versilov is Arkady's biological father and a dissipated landowner. Scandals swirl around him, including a history with a mentally unstable girl and rumors of being a Catholic.
  • Katerina Nikolaevna Akhmakov is a young widow and romantic interest of both Versilov and Arkady. A letter sewn to Arkady's jacket may have dire consequences for her future.
  • Monsieur Touchard was Arkady's old school teacher. His strict nature and disrespect of Arkady made a deep impression on the protagonist.
Works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Biography
  • Bibliography
Novels and
novellas
  • Poor Folk (1846)
  • The Double (1846)
  • Netochka Nezvanova (1849)
  • Uncle's Dream (1859)
  • The Village of Stepanchikovo (1859)
  • Humiliated and Insulted (1861)
  • The House of the Dead (1862)
  • Notes from Underground (1864)
  • Crime and Punishment (1866)
  • The Gambler (1867)
  • The Idiot (1869)
  • The Eternal Husband (1870)
  • Demons (1872)
  • The Adolescent (1875)
  • The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
Short stories and
novelettes
  • "Mr. Prokharchin" (1846)
  • "Novel in Nine Letters" (1847)
  • "The Landlady" (1847)
  • "The Jealous Husband" (1848)
  • "A Weak Heart" (1848)
  • "Polzunkov" (1848)
  • "The Honest Thief" (1848)
  • "The Christmas Tree and a Wedding" (1848)
  • "White Nights" (1848)
  • "A Little Hero" (1849)
  • "A Nasty Anecdote" (1862)
  • "The Crocodile" (1865)
  • "Bobok" (1873)
  • "The Heavenly Christmas Tree" (1876)
  • "The Meek One" (1876)
  • "The Peasant Marey" (1876)
  • "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (1877)
Non-fiction
  • Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863)
  • A Writer's Diary (1873–1881)
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