There, Razumov learns that Haldin was interrogated, sentenced, and executed in one day without naming Razumov as an accomplice. Later, Privy Councillor Mikulin summons Razumov to police headquarters. He informs the chief of police and Haldin is captured later that night. After he finds Ziemiantich, he decides to betray Haldin out of self-preservation.

He is also worried that the authorities will find him and prosecute him just for his proximity to Haldin. He doesn’t sympathize with Haldin’s cause, which only reminds him of his social isolation. Razumov is not pleased with his new predicament. Haldin asks him to find Ziemiantich, who was supposed to lend his assistance in the escape. Haldin’s escape plan was faulty and he asks Razumov for help, who reluctantly agrees. Razumov enters his apartment to find a fellow student, Victor Haldin, claiming it was he who murdered the minister. de P is assassinated by a pair of terrorists, although the bomb also kills the minister’s footman, one of the terrorists, and several people nearby.

Meanwhile, the savage Minister of State Mr. Although revolutionary ideas are swirling in the air, he takes no part in them, aims for a middle-class life, and considers Russia his family. As he never knew his parents, Razumov holds no family connections. In Part First, an English teacher in Geneva narrates the personal record of Kyrilo Sidorovitch Razumov, a university student in St. Critics consider the book one of Conrad’s finest pieces of literature and a companion to another one of his novels, The Secret Agent. Joseph Conrad’s historical novel, Under Western Eyes (1911), is considered Conrad’s thematic response to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866).

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