# Who is Prince Nekhludoff?

> Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

## Answer

Nekhludoff begins as typical aristocrat — affair with servant, inherits estates, serves on jury. Maslova’s trial triggers moral crisis; he follows case through appeals, visits prisons, gives land, travels to Siberia. Tolstoy shows backsliding: vanity with Missy, disgust at Maslova’s world, then deeper humility.

He is Tolstoy’s post-conversion self partially fictionalized — yet flawed throughout. Not savior but penitent learning limits of individual fix for systemic sin.

## Evidence

- [i](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/chapters/i.md): Nekhludoff enters court and sees Maslova.
- [ii](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/chapters/ii.md): Memory of the seduction and awakening begins.

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