The motive of murder in Russian literature of the 19th century

The article on the material of the 19th century Russian prose describes the motive of murder as an important element of a destructive human activity. The author presents a unique four-level classification system of motive of murder and conducts a comprehensive analysis of the literary material. The literary works of the Russian writers of the 19th century are used as examples: N.V. Gogol, A.S. Pushkin, F.M. Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, M.Y. Lermontov, N.S. Leskov.