 The first part of "Crime and Punishment" appeared in the January 1866 issue of "The Russian Messenger", and the last one was published in December 1866.The title refers to Italian criminologist and philosopher Cesare Beccaria's "Dei delitti e delle pene" (On Crimes and punishments, 1764), text known in Russia thanks to 1803 translation.Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a former law student, lives in extreme poverty in a tiny, rented room in Saint Petersburg.