The Raw Youth

The protagonist in the novel is a young man of 19, Arkady Dolgoruky, the illegitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the peasant woman Sophia. From childhood, he almost did not see his parents.

• And after graduating from school he receives a letter from his father, in which he calls Arkady to St.
• Petersburg, where the main events of the novel take place with him.

He was sent to a special institution for rich children, where he was always humiliated and called, a footman.