Closing Passage and Epilogue

The famous closing meditation: 'But that is the beginning of a new story—the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another...' Dostoevsky deliberately leaves the conversion sketched rather than dramatized.

Raskolnikov weeps and embraces Sonia's knees by the river in Siberia—the moment of breakthrough where 'love had raised them from the dead.'