How many Brothers Karamazov are there?
In Dostoyevsky’s 1880 novel, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov has four sons:
Dmitri, Ivan, Alyosha, and Smerdyakov, a bastard.
Dmitri is the son accused of killing his father.
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