Chapter IX

. was a necessary, inseparable, and essential part of it. The relationship between _The Life of a Great Sinner_ and _The Possessed_ explains that necessity.

Footnote 95:

See “Dostoevsky as contributor to _Russkìi Vèstnik_” in _Builoe_, No. 14, 1919; F. M. D.’s unpublished letters from 1866 to 1873.

Turning to the completed text of _The Possessed_, we find signs of the seemingly accidental disappearance of