Resurrection

This book Nekhlyudov is a juror of Moscow District Court. Once at a trial of murdering that he serves on a jury, he is horrified to discover that the accused prostitute Maslova is just Katyusha, whom he has loved when he was young. The past scenes of ten years ago unfold in front of his he has ever seduced Katyusha, abandoned her and forgotten her completely later after being told that she has degenerated as a prostitute. Now, realizing that he is the cause of her ruin, Nekhlyudov is racked with guilt. When Maslova is wrongly sentenced to 4 years hard labor in Siberia, he determines to make efforts to remedy it by resorting to the help of the presiding judge and the lawyer ......