# The Brothers Karamazov

**Author:** Fyodor Dostoyevsky
**Tags:** Didactic fiction, Russia, Brothers, Fathers and sons
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**Added:** 10.07.2026
**URL:** https://samolit.com/books/95858

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The Brothers Karamazov follows the turbulent Karamazov family in nineteenth-century Russia, where the dissolute patriarch Fyodor Pavlovich and his three legitimate sons, along with a fourth, illegitimate child, are bound together by rivalry, resentment, and unresolved longing. Passionate Dmitri clashes bitterly with his father over money and a woman they both desire; intellectual Ivan wrestles with doubt, reason, and the problem of suffering in a world that permits cruelty; and gentle Alyosha, devoted to a monastery and its elder, searches for a way to bring compassion into his fractured household. When the father is murdered, suspicion, guilt, and buried secrets tear the family further apart, forcing each brother to confront his own conscience and complicity. Blending domestic drama, courtroom intrigue, and searching philosophical debate, the novel examines faith against skepticism, free will against determinism, and love against selfish desire. Through vivid characters and unflinching moral inquiry, it asks whether redemption is possible for people driven by pride, passion, and despair, and whether human beings can find meaning and forgiveness even amid tragedy and disgrace.