Note 107 — THE UNFULFILLED IDEA INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE LIFE OF A GREAT SINNER
S. S. (Samuel Solomonovitch) Koteliansky translation
Evidently Dostoevsky got some material for his “model” in I. N. Shidlovsky, a friend of his youth, who serves also as the prototype of Stavrogin in the first stages of work upon him.