The Brothers Karamazov ends with Ilyusha's burial and Alyosha's speech to the boys, in an Epilogue of three chapters, five days after the trial, in which almost nothing left open is resolved.
Ivan burns with fever in the house of Katerina Ivanovna, who brought him there. Mitya, in the hospital, waits for the hour of his deportation, and Ivan has prepared his escape. Mitya accepts the plan, but says he loves Russia and the Russian God, though he is a scoundrel, and Alyosha tells him he is not ready and that such a cross is not for him. Katerina comes to see him, and the two share an hour of truth: love is over, she says, but what is past is dear to her to the point of pain. When she asks Grushenka's forgiveness, the latter answers that both of them are wicked and do not know how to forgive.
In the third chapter, twelve boys and the captain bury Ilyusha. The captain wants to bury him beside the stone, yields, and crumbles the bread for the sparrows, as the boy had asked. Beside the stone, Alyosha says that a good memory saves, and answers Kolya that yes, everyone will rise and see one another again.
The book ends there, without saying whether Mitya escapes or whether Ivan recovers. It ends with Kolya's shout, hand in hand, hurrah for Karamazov.