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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.
(For further discussion of the major characters see Prince Myshkin) Prince Myshkin, the novel's central character, is a young man who has returned to Russia after a long period abroad where he was receiving treatment for epilepsy. The lingering effects of the illness, combined with his innocence and lack of social experience, sometimes create ...
Nastasya Filippovna occupies a vital position in two overlapping dramas in the novel, both of which could be described as love triangles. The first involves the characters of Prince Myshkin, Nastasya Filippovna and Parfyon Rogozhin, and the second involves Myshkin, Nastasya Filippovna and Aglaya Epanchina.
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 (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
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 '.
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