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Crime and Punishment (in Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a social-psychological and social-philosophical novel within the crime literature by the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novel was first published in the literary magazine The Russian Messenger in 1866 as a serialized literary series over 12 months; after a year, a separate and structurally improved edition was published from the magazine editions, including abbreviations and stylistic changes the author incorporated into the book's release. The novel is considered Dostoevsky's second-longest after his return from exile in Siberia and his best work during his literary maturity, and it is also classified as one of the greatest literary works in history. The idea of "Crime and Punishment" developed over several years for Dostoevsky, and its main theme was the protagonist's idea about the difference between "ordinary" and "extraordinary" people. The idea was almost fully formed when he was in Italy in 1863, where he began working on the novel by collecting incomplete drafts outlining the story. The novel tells about the Marmeladov family, and the main plan of the novel was the confession of the crime by its perpetrator before the plan expanded to include a murder committed by student Rodya Raskolnikov, who killed an old moneylender to save his loved ones. At this time, the story of the crime was no longer the only subject of the novel, but also the social and psychological circumstances that drive a person to commit crimes, in addition to delving into the complex processes that occur within the human psyche. The novel depicts a city in the second half of the nineteenth century filled with conflicts. The work reproduced the topography of Saint Petersburg. The publication of "Crime and Punishment" caused a heated debate in the Russian literary society; opinions among critics ranged from complete rejection to enthusiastic acceptance of the work. Dostoevsky's contemporaries, such as Dmitry Pisarev, Nikolai Strakhov, and Nikolai Akhsharumov, conducted fundamental analyses of the work. The work was translated in the late 1880s into French, German, Swedish, English, Polish, Hungarian, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish, and the novel had a significant influence on the global literary movement, especially in French, Italian, and German literature. A series of companion novels emerged, continuing to develop the themes Dostoevsky introduced, along with the profound impact the novel had on psychology and its researchers, such as Sigmund Freud, whose work was fundamentally shaped by Dostoevsky's works in general and Crime and Punishment in particular, as a basis for his treatment of epilepsy. The novel has been adapted multiple times through films or TV series; the first adaptations appeared in the late 19th century, with the first theatrical production in Russia in 1899. The first foreign theatrical version was presented in Paris in 1888, and it was also filmed.