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__**Secondary Characters - TBK edition**__

Dmitri is engaged to her. Throughout the novel their relationship is an uphill battle, which began with Katya requiring money to save her father. Thus she met Dmitri and fell in love; many wondered why a girl like her would fall in love with a guy like him. Trouble arouses when it is suspected that Katya has [|emotional attachments] to Dmitri’s brother Ivan, early on in the novel. Lise and Alyosha have known each other since childhood. She is unable to walk on her own and struggles with being mature, as she is usually engaged in childish conversations. She admits that she has [|feelings for Alyosha] and they plan to be married although conflicts develop which cause slight hesitation in this decision. Known as Captain Snegirov, he is the father of Ilyusha and a character [|symbolic] of many ideas. He is humiliated by Dmitri, like Katerina, and from this he emerges as the symbol of wounded human pride. He also seems to be used as an introduction for Ilyusha into the text. In the beginning he is seen as the subject of mockery and scorn by the other boys. Ilyusha is a [|central component] of the novel's system of belief as he ultimately becomes friends with Alyosha, even after the humiliation caused to his father by Alyosha’s brother Dmitri. He is a character that stands out against the rest with his [|socialist beliefs] and actions. His involvement with the other characters includes becoming friends with Ilyusha and hoping to learn from Alyosha. Pyotr Aleksandrovich Miusov ** He is Adelaida Ivanovna's first cousin; Ivonovna was the first wife of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and mother of Dmitri. He is a well-educated [|European] who becomes the sole caregiver to Dmitri as a child.
 * Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtsev (Katya) **
 * Liza Katerinovna Khoklakhov (Lise) **
 * Nikolai Ilyich Snegiryov **
 * Ilyusha Nicholaevich Snegirov **
 * Nikolay Ivanovich Krasotkin (Kolya) **



Stojko, Tone, and Peter Uhan. "The Brothers Karamazov." 2008. Slovensko narodno gledališče Drama. 24 Feb 2009 .

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