Demons is the sixth novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, published in 1871-1872. "Demons" is one of Dostoevsky's most significant novels, a prediction novel, a warning novel. One of Dostoevsky's most politicized novels was written by him under the impression of the emergence of sprouts of terrorist and radical movements among Russian intellectuals, raznochintsy, etc. The direct prototype of the plot of the novel was the case of the murder of student Ivan Ivanov, which caused a great resonance in society, conceived by S. G. Nechaev in order to strengthen his power in the revolutionary terrorist circle." Besy" is one of a number of Russian anti-ligilistic novels, the book critically understands left-wing ideas, including atheistic, which occupied the minds of young people of that time. The four main protagonists of the political sense in the book: Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin and Kirillov.