Nietzche read and admired Dostoevsky. In Twilight of the Idols, he calls him ˝the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn,˝ and there are more oblique references elsewhere. Nietzche is known to have read a number of Dostoevsky‘s novels in French in the late 1880s, though I don‘t know whether Crime and Punishment specifically was among them.
