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Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (pre-reform Russian: князь Левъ Николаевичъ Мышкинъ; post-reform Russian: князь Лев Николаевич Мышкин, romanized: knyazʹ Lev Nikoláyevich Mýshkin) is the main protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot.
The character of Prince Myshkin was originally intended to be an embodiment of this "lofty (Russian) Christian idea". [12] With the character's immersion in the increasingly materialistic and atheistic world of late 19th century Russia, the idea is constantly being elaborated, tested in every scene and against every other character.
She orders Rogozhin to leave and demands that the Prince stay with her. Overcome, not for the first time, with the pain and despair in Nastasya Filippovna's face, Myshkin turns to Aglaya and reproaches her for the attack. Distraught and now full of hatred for him, Aglaya runs off. Myshkin tries to go after her but Nastasya Filippovna stops him ...
The saying Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad, sometimes given in Latin as Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat (literally: Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason) or Quem Iuppiter vult perdere, dementat prius (literally: Those whom Jupiter wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason) has been used in English literature since at least the 17th century.
The film begins on a train bound for Saint Petersburg, where Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, recently returned to Russia after four years of treatment in a Swiss sanatorium, meets the wealthy merchant Parfyon Rogozhin. During their conversation, Myshkin learns about Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, a former mistress of a nobleman named Totsky.
Evgeny Mironov — Prince Myshkin; Lidiya Velezheva — Nastasya Filippovna; Vladimir Mashkov — Parfyon Rogozhin; Aleksandr Lazarev Jr. — Gavrilya Ardalionovich Ivolgin; Oleg Basilashvili — General Ivan Yepanchin; Inna Churikova —Elizaveta Prokofieevna Yepanchina, General Yepanchin's wife; Olga Budina — Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina ...
Myshkin (Мы́шкин) is a Russian-language surname, also transliterated Mishkin and Miskin, although the latter two words have other meanings, both in Russian and in other languages. "Myshkin" is the possessive case of the Russian word myshka , the diminutive of ' mouse '.
Myshkin (masculine) or Myshkina (feminine) may refer to: Myshkin (surname) ( Myshkina ), list of real and fictional people with this family name Myshkin (town) , a town in Myshkinsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia