Stavrogin's Confession and The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner / With Introductory and Explanatory Notes

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[82]. I.e. the idea of Stavrogin’s going away with Dasha to Switzerland and living there as a Swiss citizen.

[83]. Lisa, i.e. Elisabeth Nikolaevna Drosdov.

[84]. Nechaev became Peter Verkhovensky.

[85]. Stavrogin.

[86]. Stepan Trofimovich, Peter Verkhovensky’s father.

[87]. Dasha or Darya Pavlovna.

[88]. Elisabeth Nikolaevna.

[89]. Stavrogin’s marriage to the lame girl.

[90]. Below is added: “The prince buries the lame girl, and Kuleshov (Fedka the murderer) confesses that it was he who did it.... And the beauty quickly went out of her mind.”

[91]. See Turgenev’s letter of Sept. 24, 1882, to Schedrin; also N. N. Strakhov’s letter of Nov. 28, 1883, to Leo Tolstoi.