Crime and Punishment (manga) an exhibition dedicated to "Crime and Punishment" manga was opened in Dostoyevsky Museum in St. Petersburg. Dostoyevsky's great-grandson said: "Perhaps, in the Land of the Rising Sun such thing is normal and not considered an exotic. From Russian people point of view, it looks blasphemous. Demonstration of such comics is possible, but Russian people should not study the works of Dostoevsky on the Japanese comics". Crime and Punishment (manga) This is a manga version of the classic Russian novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Here, Osamu Tezuka draws the characters in his own unique style, and gives some key
Crime and Punishment success. Although the remaining parts of the novel had still to be written, an anonymous reviewer wrote that "the novel promises to be one of the most important works of the author of "The House of the Dead"". In his memoirs, the conservative belletrist Nikolay Strakhov recalled that in Russia "Crime and Punishment" was the literary sensation of 1866. The novel soon attracted the criticism of the liberal and radical critics. G.Z. Yeliseyev sprang to the defense of the Russian student corporations, and wondered, "Has there ever been a case of a student committing murder for the sake of robbery?"