# Marfa Ignatyevna — The Brothers Karamazov character guide

> Marfa Ignatyevna in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Marfa

**First appearance:** 0018-part-i-i-in-the-servants-quarters

## Who they are

Grigory's wife and a servant in the Karamazov household.

## In the story

### [In the Servants' Quarters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_brothers_karamazov_se/chapters/part-i-i-in-the-servants-quarters)

Grigory's obedient wife, once a dancer in the Miüsov household, who gave up dancing after a single beating; she is devoted to her husband and shares his grief over their child.

### [Lizaveta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_brothers_karamazov_se/chapters/part-i-ii-lizaveta)

Grigory's wife, who nurses the baby after Lizaveta dies. She helps raise Smerdyakov.

### [The Alarm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_brothers_karamazov_se/chapters/part-iii-ii-the-alarm)

Discovers the body of Fyodor Pavlovitch and raises the alarm.

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