 When a nine-year-old girl had been raped by a drunk, he was asked to fetch his father to attend to her.The incident haunted him, and the theme of the desire of a mature man for a young girl appears in "The Devils", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Crime and Punishment", and other writings.An incident involving a family servant, or serf, in the estate in Darovoye, is described in "The Peasant Marey"