# Madame Krassotkin — The Brothers Karamazov character guide

> Madame Krassotkin in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Krassotkin

**First appearance:** 0074-part-iv-i-kolya-krassotkin

## Who they are

Kolya's widowed mother.

## In the story

### [I: Kolya Krassotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_brothers_karamazov_se/chapters/part-iv-i-kolya-krassotkin)

Kolya's devoted and anxious mother, a widow who dotes on him and is courted by Dardanelov.

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