"Descent into Hell" as a key motif in F.M.Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment"
The article attempts to consider the Descent into Hell as a key motif of the F.M.Dostoevsky's novel “Crime and Punishment". This approach of analyzing the novel could be fully justified, since, according to the author, the main characters of the novel are located in parallel in two worlds: real and mythological. They go through initiation and descend into the realm of the dead for different purposes (Raskolnikov - to test his theory of exclusivity, Sonia - to save her beloved). The author suggests a system of argumentation for this position, noting that at the end of the novel the characters see a way out of the realm of darkness, but the result of the Descent into Hell remains outside the narrative framework.