But no dead body could be found, leading some to conclude it was a suicide, others a drunkard, and others a practical joker. The police inform the butler that at that bridge, at half past two that morning, a lone gunshot was heard, and it was thought to be a suicide. The policeman finally forces through the door only to find a room empty except for a note linking the man to Liteyny Bridge. The waiter knocks on the man's door the following day to wake him but gets no response and eventually contacts the police. He then locks the door and is not heard for the rest of the night. What Is to Be Done? begins with an unknown man checking into a hotel asking for a meal, a bed, and to be awakened in the morning. He asked and received permission to write the novel in prison the authorities passed the manuscript along to the newspaper Sovremennik, his former employer which also approved it for publication in installments in its pages. Petersburg and was to spend years in Siberia. When he wrote the novel, Chernyshevsky was himself imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress of St.
The chief character is Vera Pavlovna, a woman who escapes the control of her family and an arranged marriage to seek economic independence.
'What to Do?') is an 1863 novel written by Russian philosopher, journalist, and literary critic Nikolay Chernyshevsky, written in response to Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev.
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