Peter has recruited members of his father's discussion circle and other radicals as well as local criminals to participate in his cell. He supposedly works with the socialist Internationale and has been developing radical terrorist cells of five in many cities in Russia and throughout Europe. Peter, while ingratiating himself with the local governor's wife, plots political revolution in the town. Kirilov is a friend of Shatov's who accompanied Shatov on a trip to America before he also rejected socialism in favor of a strange philosophy that glorifies suicide. Shatov, once a socialist member of Peter's group and now a reactionary, wishes to leave the group, though Peter will not let him leave. Other young men associated with Nicholas who have become involved in radical politics are Shatov and Kirilov. One of these men is Peter Verkhovensky, the estranged son of Stepan who has become involved in radical politics. Nicholas Stavrogin, a charismatic but morally questionable and rootless young man, returns to his provincial town and brings the various sundry affairs with local women and hangers on of political radicals with him. Stavrogin's son, Nicholas and keeps a small circle of political radicals. Stepan Verkhovensky, an intellectual, liberal, and ex-professor tutors Mrs. The novel follows the story of two families, the Stavrogins and the Verkhovenskys and the circle of people that revolve around these two families.
It tells the story of a small cell of nihilist terrorists that cause chaos and commit several murders in a provincial Russian town. The Possessed is a novel that dramatizes the cultural and political troubles of Russia in the mid-19th century.
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