Alyona Ivanovna

The old pawnbroker and Raskolnikov's primary victim

Description: A tiny, desiccated little woman about sixty years old, with sharp, spiteful eyes, a pointed little nose and bareheaded. Her fair, slightly greying bristly hair was liberally smeared with old. Some kind of flannel rag was wrapped around her long thin neck, which resembled a chicken leg. Despite the heat, a frayed fur cape, yellow with age, h…