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This article considers Dostoevskii's story 'Gospodin Prokharchin' (1846) as an early expression of the “underground” motif most fully represented in Zapiski iz podpol'ia (1864); key features of the archetypal image of “underground” man embodied in the character of Mr. Prokharchin, a low clerk, are analyzed. The author explores the specific type of “underground”, the “underground” of a miser, who protests against God's world by accumulation of wealth, who realizes disparity between himself and his Man-god ideal, torturing himself for this and, at the same time, for living in isolation from society, and finally dies in his “underground” isolation.