Numerology in Crime and Punishment

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

  In the Russian world the number four is the number which represents death.

Lewis B. Sckolnick
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> I am currently teaching Crime and Punishment to a group of Advanced
> Placement high school seniors.  We are trying to figure out the significance of
> numbers in the book, especially the number four which he uses constantly.
> The scene in the police station shortly after the murder is inundated with the
> number four and most people live on the fourth floor.  Razuhmikhin, however,
> lives on the fifth floor.  Don't want to make too much out of it, but when
> someone of Dostoevsky's caliber emphazises a number there is most likely
> something behind it.
>
> Thanks for any input!
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