RODION ROMANOVITCH RASKOLNIKOV (RODYA), a former student

PULCHERIA ALEXANDROVNA, his mother

AVDOTYA ROMANOVNA (DOUNIA), his sister

DMITRI PROKOFITCH RAZUMIHIN, his friend

PRASKOVYA PAVLOVNA ZARNITSYN (PASHENKA), his landlady

NATASYA PETROVNA, her servant

ALYONA IVANOVNA, an old woman, a pawnbroker

LIZAVETA IVANOVA, her half-sister

SEMYON ZAHAROVITCH MARMELADOV, a drunken clerk

SONIA SEMYONOVNA MARMELADOV (SOFYA), his daughter

KATERINA IVANOVNA, his wife

AMALIA IVANOVNA LIPPEVECHSEL, Marmeladov's landlady (also referred to as AMALIA FYDOROVNA and AMALIA LUDWIGNOVA)

ARKADY IVANOVITCH SVIDRIGAÏLOV, a landowner and DOUNIA'S former employee

MARFA PETROVNA, his wife

PYOTR PETROVITCH LUZHIN, DOUNIA'S fiancé

ANDREY SEMYONOVITCH LEBEZIATNIKOV, Pyotr's friend and roommate

KAPERNAUMOV, Sonia's landlord

ZOSSIMOV, a doctor

NIKODIM FOMITCH, chief of police

ALEXANDR GRIGORIEVITCH ZAMETOV, head clerk in the police office

ILYA PETROVITCH, assistant clerk

PORFIRY PETROVITCH, the detective

NIKOLAY DEMENTYEV (MIKOLKA), painter

DMITRI PROKOFITCH, painter

HER THREE CHILDREN:
POLENKA (POLYA)
LIDA
KOLYA