1. a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil; [syn: Raskolnikov, Rodya Raskolnikov]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Rodya Raskolnikov
n 1: a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and
Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is
beyond the bounds of good or evil [syn: Raskolnikov,
Rodya Raskolnikov]