This passage is not in Stavrogin’s Confession. The idea that many people sin in the same way, yet go on living (“in peace and quiet with their conscience”), is expressed there not by Stavrogin, but by Tikhon. And it is Tikhon, not Stavrogin, who says that the latter’s moral fall is a result of his being uprooted from the ground (words inserted by Dostoevsky in the text of the proofs while correcting them). In these published notes there is also some indication of the motive which decided Stavrogin to make his “document” public: “Tikhon says: On earth people must be happy. “(Prince): I am an idler and I am bored. I know that on earth one can be happy (and must be happy) and that there is something which gives happiness, but I do not know what it is. No, I am not one of the disappointed. I think I am one of the corrupt and idle. “The Prince says to him: I want to test my strength and I will tell you about the little girl.” As can be seen from Stavrogin’s Confession, he did commit his crime from “boredom.” Not satisfied with Stavrogin’s admission of this in the text, Dostoevsky tried to heighten the motive by adding the following words in the margin: “I say frankly, I was sometimes by no means far from thinking that I should be exiled to Siberia. The main thing is—I am bored. I was so bored that I could have hanged myself, I think. I remember, at that time I was much taken up with theology. That, it is true, diverted me a bit, but later I felt still more bored.” Finally, in one of the notes published by Grossman the reason is indicated why Stavrogin, when it comes to the point, gives up the idea of publishing his “document”: “the Bishop says that the confession of faith is all right, but that faith without deeds is dead, and he demands a still higher deed, a still more difficult act, a _moral labour_, as if he said: ‘Well, Prince, are you capable of this?’ And the Prince admits that he is a Prince, he confesses that he has lied and takes back his words: in the end—Uri.”[82] Footnote 82: _I.e._ the idea of Stavrogin’s going away with Dasha to Switzerland and living there as a Swiss citizen. To these notes of Dostoevsky, which are already known, we are now able to add a series of new notes taken from Dostoevsky’s Note-book which is in the Central Archives (No. 15 in A. G. Dostoevsky’s list). On page 30 we find: “Lisa[83] pays attention to Nechaev.[84] He kills Shatov. Lisa is convinced that _he_ (Stavrogin) had killed him. She hurries off to him. (Meanwhile the Prince[85] and Tikhon; before that the Prince and Shatov. Everything as before.) Lisa runs away with Nechaev. St. Tr.[86] And the book-pedlar. He dies. The Prince hanged himself. Everything as before.” Footnote 83: Lisa, _i.e._ Elisabeth Nikolaevna Drosdov. Footnote 84: Nechaev became Peter Verkhovensky. Footnote 85: Stavrogin. Footnote 86: Stepan Trofimovich, Peter Verkhovensky’s father.