Before his most notorious action, he tries to sell a silver cigarette box to an elderly pawnbroker.
This character is asked by a wanderer in an alleyway about the "great disgrace of the age" and is singled out in an article of the Egyptian Nights newspaper. This man is confronted by a drunkard nicknamed "Gunpowder" because of his angry personality. He experiences a dream in which a young boy sees Mikolka kill a small (*) horse. He describes a child who smashed his head on a sidewalk to his lover, with whom he argues about the raising of Lazarus in the New Testament. The perverted businessman Svidrigailov stalks this man's sister Dunya. Before his most notorious action, he tries to sell a silver cigarette box to an elderly pawnbroker. For 10 points, name this character who murders Alyona, the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
This character is asked by a wanderer in an alleyway about the "great disgrace of the age" and is singled out in an article of the Egyptian Nights newspaper.
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov [accept any underlined name]