Prestupleniye i nakazaniye- - vysochayshiy obrazets mirovoy kriminal'noy melodramy. V ramkakh zhanra politseyskogo rassledovaniya pisatel' postavil voprosy, i po sey den' ne reshennyye. Kem dolzhen byt' chelovek: -tvar'yu drozhashchey-, kak govorit Raskol'nikov, ili -Napoleonom-? I eto problema uzhe XXI veka.Napisannyy v 1866 godu roman -Prestupleniye i nakazaniye- do sikh por ostayetsya samoy chitayemoy v mire knigoy i vkhodit v bol'shinstvo shkol'nykh programm po literature.
