Money provides a measure for social class. While Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov suggest money as a gateway to social mobility, Pushkin in The Captain's Daughter suggest that money as hope may also be manipulated to prevent it. Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard finally illuminates this dichotomy: the acquisition of physical money is essential to social mobility.
             In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky confirms that capital determines social class. In the first part of the book, Fyodor large financial assets allow for his delirious orgies with young women and thus, sustain his high class life. Taking that money would definitely have enabled Dmitri "to take [Grushenka, Fyodor's desire] away" and thus achieve a morale defeating triumph that may result both in Fyodor's bankruptcy and the impossibility of a high class life style (Dostoevsky 820). Through Smerdyakov, the son and servant to Fyodor, Dostoevsky evokes a second idea that money may imply a possible departure from serfdom and consequently an uplift of one's social status. According to Smerdyakov the serf, three thousand roubles represent "a new life in Moscow" and that acquiring it may even provide a "better [life] abroad" (Dostoevsky 761). Although Smerdyakov's efforts falter because of guilt, Dostoevsky nonetheless reveals the acquisition of capital as an obvious outlet through which servants may achieve social mobility.
             To prevent usage of capital as outlet to mobility, landlords in Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter use money to lure servants. Through Savelich's passion in managing Griniov's finance, Pushkin first suggests servant's general adherence to their lords' money. As Griniov grants Savelich the right to advise the use of his monetary assets "entirely at his disposal", Savelich soon becomes habitually occupied with this privilege because money offers him a loo...