r Martin Wainwright begins a new three-part exploration of contemporary Russia through the themes and settings of three great Russian novels. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story of Rodion Raskolnikov , an impoverished student who convinces himself that he has the right to murder an old moneylender. The settings of the novel, first published in 1866, are easily recognisable in modern St Petersburg. There are also many echoes in Russia today of the social upheaval and widespread poverty described by Dostoyevsky. Producer Sue Waldram