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* '''Dmitri''' - The eldest brother. After his mother's death, he was raised for some time by Fyodor's servant Grigory, but was then taken away by his maternal uncle to serve in the Russian military and then lived abroad in Europe. He grew up believing that his father owed him an inheritance, and as the novel begins he has returned home to demand it. He is twenty-eight years old.
* '''Ivan''' - The middle brother, half-brother to Dmitri and older brother to Alyosha. Ivan grew up with his father's servant Grigory after his and Alyosha's mother died, and then [[The Spock|went off to university in Moscow]] supported by an inheritance left to him by his maternal grandmother, writing articles and editorials for periodicals and school newspapers there. He acquires some fame after publishing an article about ecumenical politics and the emerging atheism of the modern age, in which he famously declares of the new morality, [[Arc Words|"If God does not exist, then everything is permissible."]] He is twenty-four years old.
* '''Alexei''' - The youngest brother, half-brother to Dmitri and full brother to Ivan, and the protagonist of the novel. He is usually addressed as Alyosha. He was raised alongside Ivan for some time after their mother died, but was taken to live with a provincial marshal who had been his mother's friend before her marriage. Alyosha showed [[The Messiah|an aptitude for spiritual matters, was loved by everyone, and confided in by everyone]]. At the beginning of the novel, he is a novice monk at the local monastery under the tutelage of [[The Obi
The town is also populated with a whole cavalcade of interesting supporting characters, of which a few:
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* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Ivan, Smerdyakov, and possibly Fyodor.
* [[The Obi
* [[Out, Damned Spot!]]
* [[Once More With Endnotes]]
* [[Patronymic]]: It ''is'' a Russian novel after all.
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