One of my favorite poetic creations. The gospel theme, the development of which was begun by the writer Crime and Punishment, did not leave the creator, and in his notebooks for The Idiot, he notes that the prince is Christ, the heroine is a harlot, etc. In the process of development, the plot of the novel was composed slowly and changed beyond recognition. As a result, at the beginning of 1868, the author formulated the main idea: the image of a positively beautiful person, which is the main character of the work - the prince, Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin.
So, the main character of F.M. Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" is Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a sensitive, impressionable young man, a representative of a seedy, princely family. He has no relatives and suffers from epilepsy. A few years ago, a certain benefactor sent a young man to Switzerland for treatment, from where he returned to St. Petersburg. With the return of Myshkin, the story begins.
On the train, the prince meets a fellow traveler, Parfyon Rogozhin, the youngest of a merchant family. Character traits Parthena: impulsiveness, passion, jealousy, spiritual breadth. Having met once, Myshkin and Rogozhin will find themselves forever inextricably linked by fatal love in one woman - Nastasya Filippovna, Totsky's concubine. Myshkin and Rogozhin - both are not distinguished by secular education. Both are spontaneous, they are like a single whole in two guises: the light, quiet angel Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin and the dark, gloomy, passionate Parfyon Rogozhin.
Upon arrival at, Prince Myshkin goes to the house of General Yepanchin. The noble general's wife is a relative of the prince, she is from the Myshkin family. Her sincerity, bright kindness and natural, to childishness, truthfulness repeatedly remind the reader of this relationship.
In the Yepanchins' house, Myshkin accidentally saw a portrait of Nastasya Filippovna, the famous Petersburg "camellia" (they want to marry her to Ganya Ivolgin, who serves as General Yepanchin's secretary). Myshkin seems to recognize in the beauty your soul mate, in her beautiful face, he finds an extreme depth of mental suffering. The fate of Nastasya Filippovna is indeed deeply tragic. She, still a beautiful girl, the daughter of an impoverished landowner, was taken up by the rich and businessman Totsky. She became for him the subject of carnal pleasures. She is talented, intelligent, profound, adapted to her position, but she is not a slave, but a strong-willed woman, and is ready to avenge her humiliation, her position in society, because she dreamed of happiness, of a pure ideal. Nastasya Filippovna longs for spiritual happiness, and is ready to atone for her sins through suffering, to escape from the disgusting false world, the world of human baseness and hypocrisy. Nastasya protests against the marriage with Ganya Ivolgin, which is imposed by Totsky and Yepanchin. In the prince, she immediately recognized the pure, immaculate ideal of her youth and fell in love with him, so unlike other Petersburg representatives of society, with pure love. He is her love-pity. She loves him with love-admiration and love-sacrifice: she is a fallen woman, a "kept woman" will not dare to destroy the prince's pure "baby". And she accepts the sincere, bestial love-voluptuousness of Parfyon Rogozhin, a man who loves impulsively, sensually, unbridled.
Nastasya Filippovna is trying to arrange Myshkin's marriage to Aglaya Yepanchina, the general's smart and beautiful girl. But the meeting of two women who love the prince leads to a break. Prince Myshkin, finally confused and suffering, in decisive minute stayed with Nastasya Filippovna, humiliated by Aglaya and deeply suffering. They're happy. And here is the wedding. However, Rogozhin appears again, and Nastasya again - in throwing. Parfyon takes the prince's bride away and in a fit of jealousy kills her.
This is the main storyline of F.M. Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot". But it is accompanied by other parallel stories. Therefore, it is impossible to convey briefly the content of the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky. After all, the heroes of Dostoevsky's novels are always ideas, and people are their carriers, personifications.
The novel presents the themes of the relationship between church and state, Russia and Europe, Orthodoxy and Catholicism. Each hero is a special type: the degraded father of Ganya - General Ivolgin and their entire family, Lebedev - an official, a kind of "commentator" of the Apocalypse, the usurer Ptitsyn - the future son-in-law of the Ivolgins, the vulgar Ferdyshchenko, the positivist Burdovsky and his comrades, the Rogozhin company, General Yepanchin with his family. In the poetic world of Dostoevsky, every detail is extremely important, every word of a character, even if he is not the main one. It is in the novel "The Idiot" that Dostoevsky says the phrase that has become a textbook: "The world will be saved by beauty", but where does beauty end and ugliness begin? Of all the writer's novels, "The Idiot" is a poman-poem, the most lyrical work. A beautiful person in an unspiritual society is doomed to death. One of the most powerful, highly artistic scenes in the writer's work is Parfen Rogozhin and Prince Myshkin at the body of Nastasya Filippovna. Being the "grain" of a literary masterpiece, it shakes the reader to the core.
Idiot (novel by F.M. Dostoevsky) - summary
Below is a retelling of Dostoevsky's novel. After reading the retelling, you can quickly prepare for the lesson and be aware of the events described in the work.
Part one
At the end of November, a train approaches the Petersburg station. In one of the carriages of the third class, two passengers are sitting opposite each other. “One of them was short, about twenty-seven, curly-haired and almost black-haired, with grey, small, but fiery eyes. His nose was broad and flattened, his face was cheeky; thin lips were constantly folded into some kind of insolent, mocking and even evil smile; but his forehead was high and well formed and brightened up the ignoblely developed lower part of the face ... ". This is Parfen Semyonovich Rogozhin, the son of a recently deceased rich man. He is warmly dressed, in contrast to his companion, who is wearing a sleeveless cloak with a large hood, completely unsuitable for the Russian climate. “The owner of the cloak with a hood was a young man, also about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, a little above average height, very blond, thick hair, sunken cheeks and a small, pointed, almost completely white beard. His eyes were large, blue and intent; in their eyes there was something quiet, but heavy, something full of that strange expression by which some people guess from the first glance of poison in the subject an epilepsy. This is Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, the last of the Myshkin family, who was treated for a long time abroad (in Switzerland) for mental illness. He calls himself an idiot. In recent years, Myshkin lived in Switzerland on the support of his doctor Schneider, because his trustee, Pavlishchev, died suddenly and money for treatment stopped coming to the hospital. Now the prince is returning to his homeland; of things he has only a small bundle.
The official Lebedev joins the interlocutors, constantly inserting unnecessary and superfluous remarks into their conversation, fussing in every possible way and trying to inspire the idea of his necessity. He succeeds, because he and Rogozhin are already leaving the car together. Among other things, Rogozhin mentions the name of a certain Nastasya Filippovna, the kept woman of the capitalist Totsky. This is a woman of extraordinary beauty. When he first saw her in the theater, Rogozhin immediately falls in love and completely loses his head. With the money of his father, a cruel and stingy man, Rogozhin buys diamond pendants for ten thousand and brings them as a gift to Nastasya Filippovna. Old man Rogozhin severely beats his son, and he goes to Nastasya Filippovna and asks her to return the pendants. She takes out the jewelry and declares that Parfyon has become much nicer to her because he went against her father for her sake.
Upon arrival in St. Petersburg, the prince immediately goes on a visit to his distant relatives Yepanchins (Lizaveta Prokofievna, the mother of the family, also Myshkina by origin). The prince gets an appointment with General Ivan Fedorovich, who, somewhat puzzled by the prince's naive demeanor and the complete calmness with which he talks about his illness, at first decides to get rid of Myshkin as soon as possible. The latter notices that he would like to work, and writes a few lines in perfect calligraphic handwriting. The general likes it very much, and he promises to find a job for the prince. Immediately, the prince meets Yepanchin's secretary, Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin (Ganya). According to the plan of Topky and Yepanchin, Ganya must marry Nastasya Filippovna, who tortured Todky with her willfulness and does not allow him to properly marry a girl from a decent family (for example, Yepanchin's eldest daughter, Alexandra). If she marries, then any of her claims against Totsky will be considered unfounded, and in addition, she will receive seventy-five thousand dowries.
Ganya tells Yepanchin in front of the prince that tomorrow, on Nastasya Filippovna's birthday, she promises to announce her final decision. Yepanchin recommends that the prince get an apartment with Ganya's parents (his mother rents out furnished rooms). The prince notices a portrait of Nastasya Filippovna on the table. He is struck by the beautiful face of this woman - "a cheerful face, but she suffered terribly ... This proud face, terribly proud ..."
After an audience with the general, the prince is received in the women's quarters of the Yepanchins' house. Myshkin meets Lizaveta Prokofievna and her daughters - Alexandra, Adelaide (a talented artist) and the beautiful Aglaya. Despite the biased attitude towards him (Lizaveta Prokofievna is very upset when she learns that the last of the Myshkins is an idiot), the prince manages to first interest women with his simplicity and sincerity of judgments, then show off his erudition (he says that at the request of the general he wrote a few words in the handwriting of hegumen Pafnuty , who lived in the fourteenth century), and, finally, to strike their imagination with a description of the scene death penalty which he once saw with his own eyes. He recalls in detail what, in his opinion, the criminal felt in the last minutes of his life, and invites Adelaide to try to paint the face of the condemned to the guillotine. “Draw the scaffold so that only the last step is clearly and close; the criminal stepped on her: a head, a face as pale as paper, a priest holds out a cross, he eagerly stretches out his blue lips, and looks, and knows everything.
The prince also tells the details of his life in Switzerland. He was very fond of children, talked a lot with them, for which he amassed a lot of ill-wishers, since his influence on children was enormous. The prince was not in love, but he felt pity and looked after the sick girl Marie, who was dishonored by the visitor, and her mother exposed her to reproach in front of her neighbors. The prince also inspired the children (who used to mock the girl) that Marie was worthy of love and compassion, so that Marie died almost happy. The hostesses really like the prince, he notices the most striking features of their characters by their faces. Unexpectedly, he declares that Aglaya is as beautiful as Nastasya Filippovna. They take him at his word, and the prince has to tell that he saw a portrait in the general's office, and then bring it at the request of Lizaveta Prokofievna.
Ganya asks the prince to give Aglaya a note from him. As it turns out later (Aglaya herself gives the prince a message to read), Ganya does not want to marry Nastasya Filippovna (he is attracted only by money), but has tender feelings for Aglaya and asks her to "decide" his fate. Aglaya passes the note back to the prince and dictates to him in the presence of Ganya the phrase (supposedly in order to look at Myshkin's calligraphy): "I do not enter into auctions." The prince returns the note to Ghana; he, having flared up, does not believe that the prince acted honestly, takes out his anger on him, calls him an idiot, but then apologizes and accompanies the prince to his house.
Ganya's mother, Nina Alexandrovna, and his sister Varya rent out rooms to tenants. One room will be occupied by the prince, the other by a certain Ferdyshchenko. Ganya's father, General Ivolgin, constantly lies in conversations about absolutely everything, gets carried away, but demands respect for himself. Gani's thirteen-year-old brother, Kolya, looks after him. Varya is courted by Ivan Petrovich Ptitsyn, a businessman (he lends money on interest).
Ferdyshchenko immediately and without ceremony declares to the prince, warns that he does not need to be given money, even if he asks, examines Myshkin's only banknote - twenty-five rubles lent to him by Yepanchin. Then Ivolgin visits the prince. Among the merciless lies, he notices that a monstrous marriage is being prepared (Ganya and Nastasya Filippovna), which is possible only through his corpse. All members of the household take turns trying to take the general away. When the prince flares up family conflict because of the upcoming wedding; Varya also strongly speaks out against such a humiliating marriage of convenience with a "fallen" woman.
The doorbell rings, and the prince goes to open it. On the threshold stands Nastasya Filippovna; she came to meet her "future" family. She takes Prince Myshkin for a lackey, throws her fur coat into his hands, the fur coat falls to the floor. Everyone is shocked by the visit, Ganya is terribly embarrassed. The general appears, again begins to lie, Ganya and Varya try to take him out of the room. Ivolgin tells a story that seems to have happened to him (how he once threw her dog out of the train in response to the trick of one fellow traveler). Nastasya Filippovna cheerfully catches him in a lie and recalls that the other day she had read the same thing in one of the newspapers.
At this moment, new guests appear - Rogozhin, Lebedev and the whole company, distinguished by "not only diversity, but also ugliness." Ganya tries to expose the company, but nothing comes of it. Rogozhin, asking for a scandal, insults Ganya, offers Nastasya Filippovna one hundred thousand if she agrees to marry him. Varya demands to take the “shameless” (that is, Nastasya Filippovna) out, Ganya grabs her sister by the hand, shouts at her.
The prince stands up for Varya. Enraged Ganya brings down all his irritation on Myshkin and gives him a slap in the face. The prince steps aside, warns Ganya that he will be ashamed of his act. Everyone sympathizes with him * even Rogozhin shames Ganya. The prince announces to Nastasya Filippovna that she is in fact not at all what she is trying to make herself out to be. She leaves, reminding Ghana that she is waiting for him tomorrow for his birthday. Before leaving, she kisses Nina Alexandrovna's hand and says that Myshkin is right in his assumption that she is not like that.
The prince retires to his room, Kolya runs to him, consoles him, speaks of his deep respect for him. Varya also comes. She is convinced that the prince guessed the true nature of Nastasya Filippovna, notes his influence on the strange guest. Ganya comes to ask the prince for forgiveness, and at the same time, under the influence of Myshkin, from his sister, who for the first time is trying to understand her confused brother and sympathize with him. Ganya says that he used to love Nastasya Filippovna, but women like her are not suitable for wives, but only for mistresses.
The humiliated position of Ghani, the lack of money completely torment him. He breaks down on household members and meek people like Myshkin; he cannot resist Nastasya Filippovna herself and hopes to recoup her later, already being her husband.
Myshkin asks Ivolgin to bring him into the house of Nastasya Filippovna: in the afternoon, in a hurry, she forgot or did not want to invite the prince personally. By evening, Ivol-gin gets drunk and goes deep into the wilds of his traditional lies. He takes Myshkin to a false address, and along the way brings his mistress, Captain Terentyeva, to the house. The captain meets him with abuse (he has not given her money for a long time). There the prince meets Kolya, who is in close friendship with the captain's son, Ippolit. The prince abandons Ivolgin and asks Kolya to take him to Nastasya Filippovna; he decides to enter her evening uninvited, at his own peril and risk, sacrificing decency.
Contrary to expectations, Nastasya Filippovna greets the prince with great joy and even apologizes for not inviting him the day before. Among her guests - people are completely different; they could hardly meet together anywhere else. Here is Totsky, and General Yepanchin, and Ferdyshchenko, and an unknown old teacher.
At the suggestion of Ferdyshchenko, everyone is accepted to play a game, according to the rules of which each participant must honestly tell his most unseemly act. Ferdyshchenko starts; he tells the story of one minor robbery in which he was the main character, but another person was punished. Bird-tsyn skips his turn. Totsky tells how in his youth he ran across the road to a young man who was in love with a woman for whom Totsky himself had no special feelings (he told Totsky where to get camellias, and Totsky got ahead of him).
When the turn comes to Nastasya Filippovna, she unexpectedly turns to the prince with a question whether she should marry Ganya or not, arguing that as he decides, so be it. The prince gives a negative answer, and the hostess rejects Ganya's proposal, thus frustrating the plans of Totsky and Yepanchin. Everyone is amazed, no one wants to accept what happened as the truth. But Nastasya Filippovna immediately publicly refuses Totsky's seventy-five thousand and announces that she will let him go free.
Rogozhin arrives with his company and brings a hundred thousand. Nastasya Filitspovna reprimands Ghana for greed, for dishonesty and indecisiveness, for the fact that he always obeys someone. She swears that she will return everything to Totsky and go to work as a laundress: no one will marry her without a dowry.
Unexpectedly, the prince, who was previously silent, declares that he will marry Nastasya Filippovna without a dowry and will earn his own bread. He is confident in the honesty and purity of his chosen one and promises to always respect her. Myshkin feels that Nastasya Filippovna is a little out of her mind; advises her to go to bed. The prince publishes a letter according to which he is owed a huge! inheritance. Nastasya Filippovna orders Rogozhin / to remove a wad of money; she decides to marry the prince. Then she changes her mind, not wanting to "destroy the baby" (i.e., the prince). She throws the money (one hundred thousand that Rogozhin paid her "for her") into the fire and declares that if Ganya pulls out a pack, she will receive all one hundred thousand, and she will "admire" his soul.
Many, including Lebedev, beg to be allowed to get them money, but Nastasya Filippovna is adamant. Ganya does not budge, then, taking a step towards the door, she faints. Nastasya Filippovna leaves with Rogozhin (leaving money to Ghana, as he "deserved").
Part two
Myshkin follows Nastasya Filippovna and disappears, to the great annoyance of Lizaveta Prokofievna, from the Yepanchins' field of vision. Ganya is ill, after recovering he leaves the service. Varya marries Ptitsyn, and the entire Ivolgin family moves into their house. Prince Shch., who, in the end, proposes to Adelaide, often begins to visit the Yepanchins. Aglaya, however, unexpectedly receives a warm letter from Myshkia, in which he admits that he really needs Aglaya.
Soon the Yepanchins moved to their dacha in Pavlovsk. Prince Myshkin arrives from Moscow and visits Lebedev. Lebedev is disgustingly obliging and humiliated; he collects gossip and spies on everyone, and also interprets the Apocalypse. He tells the prince that the Yepanchins, as well as Rogozhin and Nastasya Filippovna, are in Pavlovsk. He is aware of Moscow events: Nastasya Filippovna repeatedly rushed between Rogozhin and Myshkin, promised Rogozhin to marry him, but ran straight from the crown. The prince is sure that she is sick and that she needs sympathy.
The prince makes a visit to Rogozhin, is interested in the date of the wedding, to which Rogozhin replies that nothing depends on him. Rogozhin admits that he loves the prince when he is near, and when he is not there, he hates him. Rogozhin insists that he is afraid of Nastasya Filippovna, talks about her madness - so often she is haunted by a change of mood, so often tantrums happen to her. The prince swears not to interfere with Rogozhin, but does not understand why Nastasya Filippovna is going for him. Rogozhin himself feels that their marriage will never take place, that for the bride this is tantamount to suicide. He announces to the prince that Nastasya Filippovna loves him, but is afraid to disgrace the honest name of Myshkin and constantly insists that she is a low and fallen woman, unworthy of the prince. The prince draws attention to the fact that Rogozhin has a new knife for cutting books.
Already on the stairs, Rogozhin suddenly asks the prince whether he believes in God or not. He tells the story of a devout peasant who killed his friend because of a beautiful watch. The prince recalls how he bought a pewter cross from a simple soldier on the street and put it on himself. Rogozhin invites the prince to exchange crosses, then brings the prince to his mother (who is already very old and poorly aware of what is happening around). Unexpectedly, she herself blesses the prince. Rogozhin offers the prince to "take" Nastasya Filippovna for himself, because this is "fate".
The prince wanders through the Summer Garden. His epileptic state is getting worse. At times, he turns off and loses touch with reality. He feels the approach of a seizure. He is tormented by the question of a love triangle, he does not know if Rogozhin is able to give Nastasya Filippovna happiness and bring her to the light. In the crowd he sees Rogozhin's eyes.
The prince comes to his hotel, in a niche on the stairs he again notices the very eyes that haunted him for half a day. Rogozhin comes out of the niche, brandishes a knife at the prince, an epileptic seizure occurs with the prince. Rogozhin runs away. Heading at that moment to Prince Kolya, he finds him in a fit, makes the necessary orders, finds a doctor and transfers the prince to his room. Three days later, at the invitation of the owner, the prince moves to Lebedev's dacha in Pavlovsk.
Lebedev and his daughter Vera nurse the prince, the Yepanchins, Ptitsyns and Ganya visit him. Aglaya reads aloud a ballad about a poor knight who died like that, not knowing other women than his Fair Lady. At the same time, Aglaya slightly changes the text, and hints at Nastasya Filippovna appear in it.
At this time, General Yepanchin and Yevgeny Pavlovich Radomsky, a young man who has just retired, enter. A strange company of very young people tumbles in behind them; among them - Ippolit Terentyev, Kbler from Rogozhin's retinue, a certain Burdovsky, a very tongue-tied and pretentious young man. The gist of their claims and demands for "rights" boil down to the following. At the instigation of the solicitor Chebarov, Antip Burdovsky declared himself the illegitimate son of Pavlishchev and demanded that the prince compensate for material damage on a large scale, since Pavlishchev paid for the treatment of the prince abroad for two years. Keller's article is published, which contains a lot of direct references to the prince, deliberately made inaccuracies and unverified information presented as absolute truth.
Young people demand "conscience" and "rights". Hippolyte is especially excited; he has consumption in the final stages, he constantly promises that he will die soon. The prince, however, parries the attack, although, to the indignation of all those present, he promises to spend ten thousand on Burdovsky. On behalf of Prince Ganya, he had long ago found out that Burdovsky could in no way be Pavlishchev's son, and help to the sick Myshkin was explained only by the late Pavlishchev's strange love for the wretched and crippled. On the contrary, the deceased also took care of Burdovsky's mother, because in his youth he was not indifferent to her sister.
The prince offers Burdovsky friendship and money, but Ippolit, constantly insulting Myshkin, declares that everything is offered "in such a clever form ... that now it is impossible for a noble person to accept them in any case."
Lizaveta Prokofievna is losing patience. She is deeply offended by the fact that she is present with all this "nonsense", but she is even more outraged by the humility of Myshkin, who, according to her, will go to Burdovsky the next day and on her knees will beg him to accept ten thousand. She accuses young people of extreme ingratitude and inability to behave. In the end, she attacks Hippolyte, but he, announcing that he will soon die, begins to cough for a long time. Everyone starts to feel sorry for him and try to put him to bed. Ippolit, on the other hand, answers Lizaveta Prokofievna on an equal footing and even declares that he considered her, a woman three times her age, "capable of development."
Ippolit is also mentally ill: he changes his mood too abruptly, now indulging in lyrical memories of the wall on which the windows of his St. Petersburg room overlook, now again starting to denounce those around him. As a result, the prince asks Lebedev to leave Ippolit in the house to spend the night, and Ippolit's friends retreat without asking anyone for an apology.
When the guests are already standing on the stairs, Nastasya Filippovna's carriage drives by. She calls out to Yevgeny Pavlovich, demonstrating her close relationship with him, which in reality does not exist. Her plan is to disgrace him in front of the Yepanchins; she knows that Yevgeny Pavlovich is courting Aglaya, and seeks to upset this marriage in order to free Aglaya for Myshkin.
For her part, Varya tries to arrange Aglaya's marriage with Ganya and finally gets a refusal from the Yepanchins' house. Lizaveta Prokofievna demands from Prince Myshkin an account of his own relations with Aglaya, and recalls the letter sent to her by the prince. Myshkin swears that he is not going to marry Nastasya Filippovna anymore, but he is not very confident about this. Lizaveta Prokofievna, for her part, promises to prevent the marriage of the prince and Aglaya (although the prince has not yet revealed any intentions). She also finds out that Burdovsky, in an extremely categorical form, broke off relations both with his friends and with the prince himself and arrogantly returned part of the money given to him by the prince. The prince also informs Li-zaveta Prokofievna that Aglaya refused him the house in writing. She takes him by the hand and drags him to her dacha.
Part Three
Lizaveta Prokofievna is very worried about her daughters. The eldest, Alexandra, is already 25 years old, and none of the girls are yet married.
The Yepanchins have guests. Yevgeny Pavlovich talks about Russian and non-Russian liberalism, declares that changes in society do not have a national character. The prince listens with naive attention, agreeing that Russian liberals tend to hate Russia. Yevgeny Pavlovich recalls a case at the trial when the lawyer of a criminal who killed six people explained that the poverty of his client did not give him the opportunity to do otherwise. The prince, who hardly lived in Russia, however, claims that this is not a special case, but a pattern.
At the suggestion of Lizaveta Prokofievna, the company is going for a walk. The prince walks around as if lost, asks everyone for forgiveness for his behavior, says that he cannot discuss many subjects, that he does not know how to hold on, etc. Aglaya stands up for him, those around him begin to make fun of her and the prince, and he publicly declares, that he has no honor to ask for her hand. Aglaya laughs loudly, her sisters support her.
On a walk, Aglaya goes arm in arm with the prince and specially shows him the green bench on which she likes to sit in the morning. The Epanchins and their guests are surrounded by acquaintances. A fun conversation ensues. Rogozhin's eyes again seem to the prince in the crowd. His anxiety is not unfounded; Nastaya Filippovna appears nearby with some lady. Nastasya Filippovna again calls Yevgeny Pavlovich and announces to him the death of his uncle, who has squandered government money. He turns away from her in a rage, his comrade, an officer, trying to stand up for the unjustly insulted Yevgeny Pavlovich, notices that people like Nastasya Filippovna must be brought up with a whip. She takes the whip from a complete stranger to her and beats the officer in the face. The officer rushes at her, but Myshkin grabs his hands. Rogozhin, who appeared from the crowd, takes Nastasya Filippovna away. Everyone thinks that, in all likelihood, the officer will challenge Myshkin to a duel.
The Epanchins are returning home. Aglaya teaches the prince how to load a pistol and choose gunpowder. In the evening, she sends him a note asking him to be on a date at the bench.
The prince wanders for a long time in the dark park, not realizing that he is in love with Aglaya and that he will go on a date with her. Suddenly, Rogozhin appears at the bench, he calls the prince to Nastasya Filippovna. The prince persuades Rogozhin for a long time not to hold a grudge against him, assuring him that he is not at all angry that Rogozhin tried to kill him. Suddenly the prince remembers that tomorrow is his birthday and says goodbye to Rogozhin.
Arriving home, the prince discovers that the guests (among whom, for some reason, Burdovsky and Ippolit) have already gathered, although he did not invite anyone. Yevgeny Pavlovich reports that he has settled the matter with the offended officer, and there will be no challenge to a duel.
Hippolytus asks the society to listen to his written confession, from which it follows that, since he will die soon, everything is allowed to him. He can commit any crime and not be punished, as he will die before sentencing. Hippolyte feels like a "miscarriage", while all nature rejoices in life. He is extremely offended by fate and people, everything is disgusting to him, even the faithful Kolya, who touchingly cares about his dying friend. In the Explanation, Ippolit mentions one good deed he did: through the connections of his friend (whom everyone in the gymnasium loved, and only Ippolit proudly despised), he saves a doctor who came with his family to St. Petersburg to seek justice and spent his last savings. Ippolit publicly reads out the plan of his suicide at Lebedev's dacha during the celebration of the prince's birthday; an excuse - do not suffer the remaining two or three weeks.
Most listeners agree that Ippolit is just an absurd fool, but Lebedev is frightened by the scandal and insists that Ippolit's gun be confiscated. Hippolyte sends him on a false trail, and he himself takes out a pistol and shoots himself in the temple. However, it turns out that the pistol did not even have a primer. Everyone laughs. Ippolit cries, shows the primers, swears that he was sure that the pistol was loaded. Hippolyta is put to bed, and the prince goes to wander around the park and recalls how in Switzerland he was visited by the same thoughts as Hippolyta (about his uselessness in the world, about his alienation). Forgetting himself, he finds himself at the bench where Aglaya made an appointment with him, and falls asleep.
Aglaya wakes him up, shames him for such oddities. The prince tells her about the end of the incident with Hippolyte, assures her that he just wanted to be pitied and praised. In addition, Ippolit sent a copy of his "Explanation" to Aglaya.
Aglaya invites the prince to become her friend and help her escape from the house, where everyone teases her with an affair with the prince. She declares that she does not love the prince at all, gets confused, asks about the prince's feelings for Nastasya Filippovna and announces that Nastasya Filippovna is bombarding her with letters in which she is pushing her to marry the prince by all means. Aglaya gives these letters to the prince. Lizaveta Prokofievna appears and demands an explanation from the prince.
At the prince's house, it turns out that Lebedev was robbed at night. His suspicions fall on Ferdyshchenko, who stayed overnight after his birthday. Lebedev, together with General Ivolgin, sets off in search of Ferdyshchenko. "The prince rereads Nastasya Filippovna's letters to Aglaya. It is unbearably hard for him, he starts wandering, reaches the Epanchins' house, but it is already late, and Alexandra invites him to come in the next day. In the park, he runs into Nastasya Filippovna, she kneels before him, asks if the prince has been with Aglaya and promises to leave. Nastasya Filippovna asks if the prince is happy. Rogozhin, who has appeared, takes her away, then returns and repeats the question. The prince answers in the negative.
Part Four
Ganya is “an ordinary person ... with envious and impulsive desires and, it seems, even born with irritated nerves. He took the impetuousness of his desires for strength. With his passionate desire to distinguish himself, he was sometimes ready for the most reckless leap; but as soon as it came to a reckless leap, our hero always turned out to be too smart to decide on it. Ganya is "half a scoundrel".
He is insanely annoyed by his father's eccentric antics, Ptitsyn's prudence, his mother's humility, and Varya's calmness. Varya brings news from the Epanchins' house about the allegedly possible wedding of Aglaya and the prince.
Ippolit moves to the Ptitsyns. He does not die, but gets better, constantly harassing General Ivolgin, convicting him of a lie. Ganya joins this opinion. The general screams and declares that he is leaving the family. Everyone begs him not to disgrace himself and return. Hippolyte offends Ganya along the way, reminding him later that he is dealing with a dying man. Ganya wonders why Ippolit is not dying. Despite Ganya's insistence on leaving the house, Ippolit feels even more confident with the Ptitsyns.
Ganya receives a note from Aglaya with an invitation to a date. He triumphs.
The prince finds out from Lebedev that Ivolgin took his money, then threw it back to him, and Lebedev pretended for a long time that he did not see it. The wallet, lying in the most visible place. Finally, Ivolgin gives money to Lebedev for the lining, deliberately opening his pocket. The prince asks Lebedev not to torment the general any more, but to tell him that the money, as it were, was found.
Ivolgin, in his predilection for lying, comes to the point that he recalls an episode from his childhood, when Napoleon allegedly chose him as a chamber page and consulted with him on various issues. In the evening with Ivolgin, right on the street, in Kolya's arms, a blow occurs.
The Epanchins' house is restless. Everyone wonders if Aglaya loves the prince and whether she will marry him, and how it will look in the eyes of the world, without asking Aglaya herself. Aglaya, on the other hand, becomes more and more eccentric, allows herself the strangest tricks and even sends a hedgehog as a gift to the prince. After that, the whole family wonders what this hedgehog could mean. In the presence of her parents and sisters, Aglaya herself asks the prince if he asks for her hand in marriage, and the prince answers that he asks. Aglaya gracefully makes him laugh. She now laughs, then sobs, and her parents are finally convinced that Aglaya is in love.
The Yepanchins convene guests, including the godmother Aglaya, the old woman Belokonskaya. The prince must first appear before a society of this level. It was decided to interpret the proposed marriage as a continuation of the Myshkin family, from which Lizaveta Prokofievna herself comes.
On the eve, Aglaya sees the prince, scolds him for his inability to behave and predicts that he will certainly ruin the evening and break the Chinese vase. The prince begins to fear that he will indeed break something, at first he decides not to go, and then, having agreed that he cannot refuse the invitation, he decides to behave as meekly as possible.
In society, he very inopportunely makes a speech in which he admits that he liked everyone very much, that the princely class does not degenerate, but there are still quite decent and kind people. He suddenly attacks Catholicism, declaring it an even worse sin than mere atheism. During his impassioned speech, the prince somehow imperceptibly appears near the Chinese vase and really breaks it.
Contrary to Aglaya's predictions, no one is angry with him, everyone encourages the prince. Myshkin continues to speak standing up, urging them not to be afraid to be funny, to forgive each other and to humble themselves. He knows that words will not change anything, and he himself intends to set an example, he says that he is happy looking at a tree, at a child, at his beloved eyes. A seizure occurs to him, and the prince falls on his back.
The prince is being transported home. The next day, the Yepanchins visit him. Slowly, Aglaya asks the prince not to go anywhere during the day, and soon one comes after him. They go to Nastasya Filippovna, who came at the request of Aglaya.
In addition to the three of them, Rogozhin is present in the house. After both women exchange glances full of hatred for each other, Aglaya asks Nastasya Filippovna to stop bringing her to the prince. She says that Nastasya Filippona herself cannot fall in love with the prince, but can only torment her, that she likes to be unhappy, that she has been flaunting her old “shame” for many years and constantly reminds everyone that she was once insulted. Aglaya wonders if it was not easier for Nastasya Filippovna to leave and leave everyone alone. She understands that she does not marry Rogozhin only because then she will not be offended by anyone. According to Yevgeny Pavlovich, Nastasya Filippovna read too many books and received too good an education for her position.
Nastasya Filippovna denies the accusation of being unable to work and herself calls Aglaya a white hand. She declares that Aglaya specially came to her with the prince, because she is afraid that the prince loves her, Nastasya Filippovna, more than Aglaya. She screams that she will drive Rogozhin away, and the prince will remain with her, she only has to beckon with her finger.
Nastasya Filippovna fulfills her threat. The prince hesitates, cannot figure out what is happening. This momentary doubt is enough for Aglaya, and she runs out into the street alone. The prince rushes after him, but Nastasya Filippovna catches up with him and falls into his arms. Myshkin does not go anywhere, stays with her, strokes her face, consoles her and forgets about Aglaya. Rogozhin leaves.
Two weeks later, the wedding of the prince and Nastasya Filippovna is announced. The Yepanchins leave for Petersburg. The prince repeatedly tries to visit Aglaya, but he is refused.
Yevgeny Pavlovich is trying to explain to the prince how ugly his act is, he insists that nothing can justify Nastasya Filippovna, her "demonic pride, such impudent, such greedy egoism." However, the prince still believes that she is "worthy of compassion." Myshkin agrees to the point that he confesses to Yevgeny Pavlovich his love for both women at once.
Before the wedding, Nastasya Filippovna tries her best to cheer up the pensive prince, but on the eve she again beats in hysterics and sends for the groom to calm her down. On the day of the scandalous ceremony, a huge crowd of people gathers. When Nastasya Filippovna appears on the porch of her house in a magnificent dress, a roar of approval and admiration goes through the crowd. She is about to enter the wedding carriage when she suddenly turns around, notices Rogozhin in the crowd and shouts to him to take her away. Rogozhin complies with her demand, and they both disappear.
The prince quite calmly endures the flight of the bride from the crown and goes to look for her in St. Petersburg. He comes to Rogozhin's apartment and to Nastasya Filippovna's; nowhere does he find fugitives. He walks the streets when Rogozhin comes up to him and tells him to follow him. They enter Rogozhin's gloomy house from the back door. At home, Rogozhin shows the prince Nastasya Filippovna, who was slaughtered by him. Both of them settle down to sleep on the floor next to the dead woman. Rogozhin falls asleep, muttering something in his sleep. Myshkin strokes his head, cries over him and finally goes crazy.
Conclusion
Rogozhin, after suffering inflammation of the brain, was sentenced to fifteen years in exile. Prince Myshkin was sent by Yevgeny Pavlovich for treatment in Switzerland. Ippolit died. Aglaya married a Polish emigrant, and Adelaide married Prince Shch. Aglaya became a member of the committee for the liberation of Poland and converted to Catholicism.
“Indeed, there is nothing more annoying than to be, for example, rich, decent family, decent appearance, not badly educated, not stupid, even kind, and at the same time not to have any talent, no special features, not even eccentricity, not a single own idea, to be resolutely "like everyone else." There is wealth, but not Rothschild's; the surname is honest, but never marked itself in any way; decent appearance, but very little expressive; a decent education, but you don’t know what to use it for; the mind is there, but without its own ideas; there is a heart, but without generosity, etc., etc. in all respects. There are an extraordinary number of such people in the world, and even much more than it seems; they are divided, like all people, into two main categories: some are limited, others are "much smarter." The former are happier. For a limited "ordinary" person, for example, there is nothing easier than to imagine oneself as an extraordinary and original person and enjoy it without any hesitation. It took some of our young ladies to cut their hair, put on blue glasses and call themselves nihilists, to immediately see that, having put on glasses, they immediately began to have their own “convictions”. One had only to feel in his heart something of some universal and good feeling in order to be immediately convinced that no one else feels like he does, that he is advanced in general development. It was enough for someone to take some thought for a word or read a page of something without beginning or end, in order to immediately believe that these were “his own own thoughts and in his own brain originated. The impudence of naivete, so to speak, in such cases reaches the point of wonder; all this is incredible, but it occurs every minute. ”
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“For a long time I have been tormented by one thought that is too difficult. This idea is to portray a positively beautiful person. In my opinion, nothing can be more difficult than this ...”, Dostoevsky wrote to A. Maikov. The type of such a character was embodied in Prince Myshkin, the protagonist of the novel The Idiot, the greatest work of world literature and - generally recognized - the most mysterious novel by Dostoevsky. Who is he, Prince Myshkin? A man who imagines himself to be Christ, intending to heal the souls of people with his boundless kindness? Or an idiot who does not realize that such a mission is impossible in our world? The prince's tangled relationship with those around him, the heavy inner split, the painful and different love for two women close to his heart, intensified by bright passions, painful experiences and the unusually complex characters of both heroines, become the main driving force of the plot and lead it to a fatal tragic finale...
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Part one
26-year-old Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin returns from a sanatorium in Switzerland, where he spent several years. The prince was not completely cured of his mental illness, but appears before the reader as a sincere and innocent person, although he is well versed in relations between people. He goes to Russia to the only relatives left with him - the Yepanchin family. On the train, he meets a young merchant, Parfyon Rogozhin, and a retired official, Lebedev, to whom he ingenuously tells his story. In response, he learns the details of the life of Rogozhin, who is in love with the former kept woman of the wealthy nobleman Afanasy Ivanovich Totsky, Nastasya Filippovna. In the Epanchins' house, it turns out that Nastasya Filippovna is also known in this house. There is a plan to marry her off to the protégé of General Yepanchin, Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin, an ambitious but mediocre man. Prince Myshkin meets all the main characters of the story in the first part of the novel. These are the daughters of the Yepanchins Alexandra, Adelaide and Aglaya, on whom he makes a favorable impression, remaining the object of their slightly mocking attention. Further, this is General's Lizaveta Prokofievna Yepanchina, who is in constant agitation due to the fact that her husband is in some contact with Nastasya Filippovna, who has a reputation as a fallen one. Then, this is Ganya Ivolgin, who suffers greatly because of the upcoming role of Nastasya Filippovna's husband, and cannot decide to develop his still very weak relationship with Aglaya. Prince Myshkin rather ingenuously tells the general's wife and the Yepanchin sisters that he learned about Nastasya Filippovna from Rogozhin, and also amazes the public with his story about the death penalty he observed abroad. General Yepanchin offers the prince, for lack of a place to stay, to rent a room in Ivolgin's house. There, the prince meets the Gani family, and also for the first time meets Nastasya Filippovna, who unexpectedly arrives at this house. After an ugly scene with Ivolgin's alcoholic father, retired general Ardalion Alexandrovich, whom his son is infinitely ashamed of, Nastasya Filippovna and Rogozhin come to the Ivolgins' house for. He arrives with a noisy company that has gathered around him quite by accident, like around any person who knows how to overspend. As a result of the scandalous explanation, Rogozhin swears to Nastasya Filippovna that he will offer her one hundred thousand rubles in cash in the evening.
That evening, Myshkin, anticipating something bad, really wants to get into the house of Nastasya Filippovna, and at first he hopes for the elder Ivolgin, who promises to take Myshkin to this house, but, in fact, does not know at all where she lives. The desperate prince does not know what to do, but he is unexpectedly helped by Ganya Ivolgin's younger teenage brother, Kolya, who shows him the way to Nastasya Filippovna's house. That evening she has a name day, there are few invited guests. Allegedly, everything should be decided today and Nastasya Filippovna should agree to marry Ganya Ivolgin. The unexpected appearance of the prince surprises everyone. One of the guests, Ferdyshchenko, positively a type of petty scoundrel, offers to play a strange game for entertainment - each tells about his lowest deed. The stories of Ferdyshchenko and Totsky follow. In the form of such a story, Nastasya Filippovna refuses Ghana to marry him. Rogozhin suddenly bursts into the rooms with a company that brought the promised hundred thousand. He trades Nastasya Filippovna, offering her money in exchange for agreeing to become "his".
The prince gives reason for amazement, seriously proposing Nastasya Filippovna to marry him, while she, in desperation, plays with this proposal and almost agrees. It immediately turns out that the prince receives a large inheritance. Nastasya Filippovna offers Ganya Ivolgin to take a hundred thousand and throws them into the fire of the fireplace. But only without gloves, with with bare hands. Pull it out - yours, all a hundred thousand are yours! And I will admire your soul, how you climb into the fire for my money.
Lebedev, Ferdyshchenko and others like them are confused and beg Nastasya Filippovna to let them snatch this wad of money from the fire, but she is adamant and offers Ivolgin to do it. Ivolgin restrains himself and does not rush for money. Loses consciousness. Nastasya Filippovna takes out almost whole money with tongs, puts it on Ivolgin and leaves with Rogozhin. This ends the first part of the novel.
Part two
In the second part, the prince appears before us after six months, and now he does not seem to be a completely naive person, while maintaining all his simplicity in communication. All these six months he lives in Moscow. During this time, he managed to receive his inheritance, which is rumored to be almost colossal. It is also rumored that in Moscow the prince enters into close communication with Nastasya Filippovna, but she soon leaves him. At this time, Kolya Ivolgin, who began to be in a relationship with the Yepanchin sisters and even with the general's wife herself, gives Aglaya a note from the prince, in which he asks her in confusing terms to remember him.
Meanwhile, summer is already coming, and the Yepanchins are leaving for their dacha in Pavlovsk. Shortly thereafter, Myshkin arrives in St. Petersburg and pays a visit to Lebedev, from whom, by the way, he learns about Pavlovsk and rents his dacha in the same place. Next, the prince goes to visit Rogozhin, with whom he has a difficult conversation, ending in fraternization and exchange pectoral crosses. At the same time, it becomes obvious that Rogozhin is on the verge of being ready to kill the prince or Nastasya Filippovna, and even bought a knife while thinking about it. Also in Rogozhin's house, Myshkin notices a copy of the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger "Dead Christ", which becomes one of the most important artistic images in the novel, often commemorated even after.
Returning from Rogozhin and being in a darkened consciousness, and anticipating the time of an epileptic seizure, the prince notices that "eyes" are following him - and this, apparently, is Rogozhin. The image of Rogozhin's tracking "eyes" becomes one of the leitmotifs of the story. Myshkin, having reached the hotel where he was staying, runs into Rogozhin, who seems to be already bringing a knife over him, but at that moment an epileptic seizure occurs with the prince and this stops the crime.
Myshkin moves to Pavlovsk, where General Epanchin, having heard that he is unwell, immediately pays him a visit along with his daughters and Prince Shch., Adelaide's fiancé. Lebedev and Ivolgins are also present in the house and participate in the subsequent important scene. Later, General Yepanchin and Yevgeny Pavlovich Radomsky, Aglaya's alleged fiancé, who came up later, join them. At this time, Kolya recalls some joke about the "poor knight", and the incomprehensible Lizaveta Prokofievna forces Aglaya to read Pushkin's famous poem, which she does with great feeling, replacing, among other things, the initials written by the knight in the poem with the initials of Nastasya Filippovna.
Myshkin manifests himself in this whole scene as an amazingly kind and gentle person, which causes a somewhat sarcastic assessment from the Yepanchins. At the end of the scene, Hippolyte, who is sick with consumption, grabs all the attention, whose speech, addressed to all those present, is full of unexpected moral paradoxes.
On the same evening, leaving Myshkin, Yepanchina and Yevgeny Pavlovich Radomsky meet Nastasya Filippovna, who is passing in a carriage. On the move, she shouts out to Radomsky about some bills, thereby compromising him in front of the Yepanchins and the future bride.
On the third day, General Yepanchina pays an unexpected visit to the prince, although she has been angry with him all this time. In the course of their conversation, it turns out that Aglaya somehow entered into communication with Nastasya Filippovna through the mediation of Ganya Ivolgin and his sister, who is a member of the Yepanchins. The prince also lets slip that he received a note from Aglaya, in which she asks him not to show herself to her in the future. Surprised Lizaveta Prokofievna, realizing that the feelings that Aglaya has for the prince play a role here, immediately orders him to go with her to visit them "intentionally". This ends the second part of the novel.
Part Three
At the beginning of the third part, the anxieties of Lizaveta Prokofievna Yepanchina are described, who complains (to herself) about the prince that through his fault everything in their life “went upside down!”. He learns that her daughter Aglaya entered into correspondence with Nastasya Filippovna.
At a meeting with the Yepanchins, the prince speaks about himself, about his illness, that "you can't help laughing at me." Aglaya intercedes: “everything is here, everyone is not worth your little finger, neither your mind, nor your heart! You are more honest than everyone, nobler than everyone, better than everyone, kinder than everyone, smarter than everyone! Everyone is shocked. Aglaya continues: “I will never marry you! Know that for nothing and never! Know it!" The prince justifies himself that he did not even think about it: “I never wanted, and I never had it in my mind, I never want to, you yourself will see; rest assured!” he says. In response, Aglaya begins to laugh uncontrollably. Everyone laughs at the end.
Later, Myshkin, Evgeny Pavlovich and the Yepanchin family meet Nastasya Filippovna at the station. She loudly and defiantly informs Yevgeny Pavlovich that his uncle, Kapiton Alekseich Radomsky, shot himself because of the waste of state money. Lieutenant Molovtsov, a great friend of Yevgeny Pavlovich, who was right there, loudly calls her a creature. She hits him in the face with a cane. The officer rushes at her, but Myshkin intercedes. Rogozhin arrived in time to take Nastasya Filippovna away.
Aglaya writes a note to Myshkin, in which she makes an appointment on a park bench. Myshkin is excited. He cannot believe that he can be loved. "The possibility of love for him," for such a person as he ", he would consider a monstrous thing."
Then the prince has a birthday. Here he pronounces his famous phrase "Beauty will save the world!".
Part Four
At the beginning of this part, Dostoevsky writes about ordinary people. Ganya is an example. The news is now known in the Ivolgins' house that Aglaya is marrying the prince, and therefore a good company appears at the Yepanchins in the evening to get acquainted with the prince. Ganya and Varya are talking about the theft of money, which turned out to be their father's fault. About Aglaya, Varya says that she “will turn her back on the first groom, and would gladly run to some student to die of hunger, to the attic.”
Ganya then argues with his father, General Ivolgin, to the point that he shouts "damn this house" and leaves. Disputes continue, but now with Hippolytus, who, in anticipation of his own death, no longer knows any measures. He is called "the gossip and the boy". After that, Ganya and Varvara Ardalionovna receive a letter from Aglaya, in which she asks them both to come to the green bench known to Varya. This step is incomprehensible to the brother and sister, because this is already after the engagement with the prince.
After a heated clarification between Lebedev and the general, the next morning, General Ivolgin visits the prince and announces to him that he wants to "respect himself." When he leaves, Lebedev enters the prince and tells him that no one has stolen his money, which, of course, seems rather suspicious. This matter, although decided, still worries the prince.
The next scene is again the meeting of the prince with the general, in which the latter tells from the time of Napoleon in Moscow that he then served the great leader even as a chamber page. The whole story, of course, is again doubtful. Having left the prince with Kolya, having talked with him about his family and himself, and having read many quotations from Russian literature, he suffers apoplexy.
Then Dostoevsky succumbs to reflections on the whole life situation in Pavlovsk, which it would be inappropriate to convey. Only the moment when Aglaya gives the prince a hedgehog as a "sign of her deepest respect" can be important. This expression of hers, however, is also in the conversation about the "poor knight." When he is with the Yepanchins, Aglaya immediately wants to know his opinion about the hedgehog, why the prince somewhat embarrassed. The answer does not satisfy Aglaya, and for no reason at all she asks him: “Are you marrying me or not?” and "Are you asking for my hand or not?" The prince convinces that he asks and that he loves her very much. She also asks him a question about his financial condition, which others consider completely inappropriate. Then she laughs and runs away, sisters and parents after her. In her room, she cries and completely reconciles with her relatives and says that she does not love the prince at all and that she will “die with laughter” when she sees him again.
She asks for his forgiveness and makes him happy, to the point that he does not even listen to her words: “Forgive me for insisting on the absurdity, which, of course, cannot have the slightest consequences ...” The whole evening the prince was cheerful and a lot and spoke animatedly, although he had a plan not to say too much, for, as he said just now to Prince Sch., “he must restrain himself and be silent, because he has no right to humiliate an idea by expressing it himself.”
In the park, the prince then meets Hippolyte, who, as usual, mocks the prince in a caustic and mocking tone and calls him a "naive child."
Preparing for the evening meeting, for the "high circle", Aglaya warns the prince about some inadequate trick, and the prince notices that all the Yepanchins are afraid for him, although Aglaya herself really wants to hide this, and think that he, perhaps, " cut off" in society. The prince concludes that it is better if he does not come. But he immediately changes his mind again when Aglaya makes it clear that everything is ordered separately for him. Moreover, she does not allow him to talk about anything, such as that "beauty will save the world." To this, the prince replies that "now he will certainly break the vase." At night, he fantasizes and imagines how a seizure happens to him in just such a society.
Lebedev appears on the stage and admits "in a rush" that he has recently reported to Lizaveta Prokofievna about the content of Aglaya Ivanovna's letters. And now he assures the prince that he is again "all yours."
An evening in high society begins with pleasant conversations and nothing is to be expected. But suddenly the prince flares up too much and begins to speak. Adelaide's expression the next morning best explains the mental state of the prince: "He was choking from a beautiful heart." In everything, the prince exaggerates, curses Catholicism with a non-Christian faith, gets more and more excited and finally breaks the vase, as he himself prophesied. The last fact astonishes him the most, and after everyone forgives him for the accident, he feels great and continues to talk animatedly. Without even noticing it himself, he gets up during a speech and suddenly, as if according to prophecy, he has a seizure.
When the “old woman Belokonskaya” (as Lizaveta Prokofievna calls her) leaves, she expresses herself about the prince like this: “Well, he’s good and bad, but if you want to know my opinion, then he’s more bad. You can see for yourself what a man, a sick man! Aglaya then announces that she "never considered him her fiancé".
The Yepanchins, nevertheless, later inquire about the health of the prince. Through Vera Lebedeva, Aglaya tells the prince not to leave the court, the reason for which the prince, of course, does not understand. He comes to Prince Ippolit and announces to him that he spoke with Aglaya today in order to agree on a meeting with Nastasya Filipovna, which should take place on the same day with Darya Alekseevna. Consequently, the prince will realize, Aglaya wanted him to stay at home so that she could call for him. And so it turns out and the main faces of the novel meet.
Aglaya reveals to Nastasya Filipovna her opinion about her, that she is proud of herself "to the point of madness, which your letters to me serve as proof of." Moreover, she says that she fell in love with the prince for his noble innocence and boundless credulity. Asking Nastasya Filipovna what right she has to interfere with his feelings for her and constantly declares to both her and the prince herself that she loves him, and receiving an unsatisfactory answer that “neither to him nor to you,” she angrily replies that she thinks that she wanted to do a great feat, persuading her to "follow him", but in fact with the sole purpose of satisfying her pride. And Nastasya Filipovna objects that she only came to this house because she was afraid of her and wanted to make sure who the prince loves more. Offering her to take it, she demands that she step away "this very minute." And suddenly Nastasya Fillipovna, like a madman, orders the prince to decide whether to go with her or with Aglaya. The prince does not understand anything and turns to Aglaya, pointing to Nastasya Filipovna: “Is it possible! After all, she is ... crazy! After that, Aglaya can no longer stand it and runs away, the prince follows her, but on the threshold Nastasya Filipovna wraps her arms around him and faints. He stays with her - this is a fatal decision.
Preparations for the wedding of the prince and Nastasya Filipovna begin. The Epachins leave Pavlovsk and a doctor arrives to examine Ippolit, as well as the prince. Yevgeny Pavlovich complains to the prince with the intention of "analyzing" everything that happened and the prince's motives for other actions and feelings. The result is a subtle and very excellent analysis: he convinces the prince that it was indecent to refuse Aglaya, who behaved much more noblely and more appropriately, although Nastasya Filipovna was worthy of compassion, but there was too much sympathy, because Aglaya needed support. The prince is now fully convinced that he is to blame. Yevgeny Pavlovich also adds that, perhaps, he did not even love any of them, that he only loved as an "abstract spirit."
General Ivolgin dies from a second apoplexy and the prince shows his sympathy. Lebedev begins to intrigue against the prince and admits this on the very day of the wedding. Hippolyte at this time often sends for the prince, which amuses him a lot. He even tells him that Rogozhin will now kill Aglaya because he took away Nastasya Filipovna from him.
The latter once becomes overly worried, imagining that Rogozhin is hiding in the garden and wants to "kill" her. The mood of the bride is constantly changing, now she is happy, now she is desperate.
Just before the wedding, when the prince is waiting in the church, she sees Rogozhin, shouts "Save me!" and leaves with him. Keller considers the prince's reaction to this "an unparalleled philosophy": "... in her condition ... it is completely in the order of things."
The prince leaves Pavlovsk, hires a room in St. Petersburg and is looking for Rogozhin. When he knocks at his own house, the maid tells him that he is not at home. And the janitor, on the contrary, replies that he is at home, but, having listened to the objection of the prince, based on the statement of the maid, he believes that "maybe he went out." Then, however, they announce to him that the sir, after all, slept at home at night, but left for Pavlovsk. All this seems to the prince more and more improbable and suspicious. Returning to the hotel, Rogozhin suddenly touches his elbow in the crowd and tells him to follow him to his home. Nastasya Filipovna is at his house. Together they quietly go up to the apartment, because the janitor does not know that he has returned.
Nastasya Filipovna lies on the bed and sleeps in a "completely motionless sleep." Rogozhin killed her with a knife and covered her with a sheet. The prince begins to tremble and lies down together with Rogozhin. They talk for a long time about everything, meanwhile, about how Rogozhin planned everything so that no one would know that Nastasya Filipovna was sleeping with him.
Suddenly Rogozhin begins to shout, forgetting that he should speak in a whisper, and suddenly he is silent. The prince looks at him for a long time and even strokes him. When they are searched for, Rogozhin is found "in complete unconsciousness and fever", and the prince does not understand anything anymore and does not recognize anyone - he is an "idiot", as then in Switzerland.
The novel The Idiot, written by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky in 1868-69, is still one of the most widely read works of world literature. And the image of Prince Myshkin is the subject of discussion. Some draw a clear parallel between Myshkin and Christ, calling the protagonist "prince Christ" (or "prince of Christ"), others, on the contrary, consider him a pretender and a deceiver, others are convinced that two opposing principles live in Myshkin - divine and sinful.
Dostoevsky himself set the goal of portraying a “positively beautiful person”, the ideal of moral purity, which is called upon to bring harmony and reconciliation to the vicious world. Has the envoy of good managed to change reality in any way? Is there a place in the world for light? Does Christian morality have a chance to exist in objective reality? We are looking for answers to all these and many other questions in Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot.
Part One: The Return of Prince Myshkin
In the third-class carriage of the Peterburgsko-Varshavskaya train railway two young people were driving. One - about twenty-seven, black-haired, curly, dressed in a warm sheepskin coat - Parfen Semyonovich Rogozhin, a merchant's son. The second - about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, blond, blue-eyed, sharp-faced, sickly in a thin cloak, unsuitable for the Russian cold - Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin.
A non-binding conversation began between the fellow travelers, during which it turned out that Prince Myshkin had spent the last four years in Switzerland. His guardian Pavlishchev sent him abroad. In a European sanatorium, Myshkin was treated for epilepsy and mental illness. Several years ago, Pavlishchev died without leaving any orders regarding his money, and Prince Myshkin decided to return to his homeland. All his condition is a meager bundle with belongings, and the clothes that he is wearing.
Parfen Rogozhin, on the contrary, goes to the capital for a millionth fortune. A few months ago, he ran away from his father's house, quarreling with his father. Soon the parent died, leaving the eldest son a large inheritance.
Rogozhin is imbued with sympathy for the strange prince, who, it would seem, does not care at all about his own predicament. The millionaire invites him to dinner, offers financial assistance, and even shares an intimate story about the passion he feels for one St. Petersburg beauty, Nastasya Fedorovna Barashkova.
Arriving in St. Petersburg, Prince Myshkin first of all visits his distant relative Lizaveta Prokofievna Yepanchina, to whom he wrote from Switzerland, but never received an answer. In the Yepanchin family, to put it mildly, they are not happy with the poor relative. However, the spontaneity and simplicity of a strange young man so bribe the head of the family, General Ivan Fedorovich Yepanchin, that he arranges Myshkin for service and looks for housing for him.
Immediately, Lev Nikolayevich met the three daughters of the Yepanchins - Alexandra, Adelaide and Aglaya. All beauties, smart girls, enviable brides, but the younger Aglaya is especially good. In addition, Myshkin makes acquaintance with the protege of General Ganya Ardelionovich Ivolgin, in whose house he settles. And most importantly - with Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova.
In the past, Nastasya Filippovna was the kept woman of the rich Totsky. Now Totsky is going to marry the eldest daughter of the Yepanchins, and intends to ward off his inappropriate mistress. That is why he wooed her to Ganya Ivolgin, offering Nastasya a dowry of eighteen thousand rubles. Ganya is embarrassed by the reputation of the bride, but he is ready to step over the conventions for the sake of possible enrichment.
The unexpected arrival of Rogozhin radically changes the plans of Totsky, Ivolgin and Yepanchin, who acts as an intermediary in the marriage. Passionately in love with Nastasya Filippovna Rogozhin, he brings 18 thousand and offers his beloved a hand.
Barashkov seems to be amused by what is happening. She arranges a comic bargaining, during which the rate is raised to one hundred thousand. A few days later, on the evening in honor of the name day of Nastasya Filippovna, Rogozhin brings the promised hundred thousand. The discouraged Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin demands to stop the dishonorable action towards Lambova and even invites her to become his wife. Moreover, by this time Myshkin had inherited a large capital left by his aunt. However, the words of the prince are translated as a joke. Nastasya Filippovna throws a hundred thousand into the fire, offering the unfortunate groom Ivolgin to pull them out with his bare hands, and leaves with Rogozhin.
Part two: the transformation of Prince Myshkin
Six months have passed. Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin lives in Moscow. He is very rich, no longer so naive, but still kind and sweet. For some time he had an affair with Nastasya Filippovna, who never married Rogozhin. But now everything is in the past, she left the prince.
Myshkin finally decides to explain himself to Parfyon Rogozhin. Despite the ostentatious good nature, the conversation comes out very tense. The prince sees alarming signs in everything - in Rogozhin's inflamed eyes, in a carelessly thrown garden knife, in Holbein's painting " Dead Christ' that hangs on the wall. The strongest emotional stress leads to a relapse of the disease and an epileptic seizure.
Having slightly improved his health, Myshkin moves to Pavlovsk, where the Epanchin family temporarily lives. Even in Moscow, the prince began to receive strange messages from the younger Yepanchina Aglaya, the main beauty and everyone's favorite. However, in the last note, the girl angrily ordered the prince not to appear in front of her again.
The situation was clarified by the general's wife, mother Aglaya. It turns out that not so long ago, a correspondence began between young Yepanchina and Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova. Lizaveta Prokofievna urgently invites the prince to visit, because everything indicates that her daughter has far from friendly feelings for Lev Nikolaevich.
Part Three: The Courtship of Prince Myshkin
Prince Myshkin at a dinner party at the Yepanchins. There is understatement and tension between him and Aglaya. The girl at first praises the virtues of the prince, then declares that she will never marry him, even if he begged, then she begins to joke and laugh. The prince leaves the general's house in confusion. However, the very next day, Lev Nikolaevich receives a note from Aglaya, in which she makes an appointment on a park bench. Young people explain. Thus begins the period of courtship of Prince Myshkin.
old wound
The love idyll is broken by the unexpected appearance of Nastasya Filippovna in Pavlovsk. She now and then catches the eye of the prince, which gives him a lot of excitement. Returning one day from the Yepanchins, he meets his former mistress in the darkness of the garden. She only tells the prince that he sees her for the last time, and runs away.
Fourth part: forgiveness of Prince Myshkin
Preparations are underway for the wedding of Aglaya Yepanchina and Prince Myshkin. On this occasion, the so-called "good society" gathers. The bride is worried that the groom will not be stupid, so she orders the prince to keep quiet. Myshkin still decides to make a speech, however, getting agitated, he faints. “Well, both good and bad,” they say about the prince, “but more, of course, bad.”
Aglaya is haunted not only by the prince's reputation in the world, but also by his former connection with Barashkova. The girl arranges a meeting during which she wants to dot the i's. She could not even imagine that Nastasya Filippovna, who had just abandoned the prince, would order her to choose between her and Aglaya. Nervous tension reaches the limit, passions run high, and the prince chooses Barashkova.
Myshkin is still preparing for the wedding, only the bride is different. Nastasya Filippovna is in a restless state - bouts of fun are replaced by unexpected panic, tears, and tantrums. And on the wedding day, on the way to the church, the bride meets Rogozhin and shouts “Save me!” runs away with him.
The failed fiance Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin leaves Pavlovsk and rents a room in St. Petersburg. He is looking for Rogozhin and the runaway bride. Once Parfen Semenovich himself grabs the prince in the crowd and calls him to him. Rogozhin looks unhealthy, agitated. In the bedroom to which Myshkin is brought by a former friend, Nastasya Filippovna lies. She was stabbed to death with a garden knife.
Lev Nikolaevich does not panic, does not try to bring the killer to justice or escape from the scene of the crime. He talks for a long time with Rogozhin at the bedside, where their beloved fell asleep soundly and forever. Myshkin reassures Rogozhin, strokes his head and… forgives him. This terrible idyll opened up before the eyes of those who entered the room - the dead Barashkova, the grief-stricken Rogozhin and the distraught Myshkin. The prince understands nothing more and does not recognize anyone. He is idiot.
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Retelling plan
1. Prince Myshkin, on the way to St. Petersburg, meets the son of a merchant, Parfyon Rogozhin. Portrait of Nastasya Filippovna.
2. Acquaintance of Myshkin with the Epanchin family. History of Nastasya Filippovna.
3. The prince settles with the Ivolgins and gets acquainted with the whole family.
4. The arrival of a noisy company with Nastasya Filippovna at the Ivolgins' house.
5. Evening at Totsky's house: Nastasya Filippovna refuses to marry Ganya, learns about the prince's love, but leaves with Rogozhin.
6. Meeting of the prince with Rogozhin. Rogozhin makes an attempt on his life.
7. Myshkin in Pavlovsk. Talk about the "poor knight". The arrival of Burdovsky. Hippolytus speeches.
8. The defiant act of Nastasya Filippovna in relation to Radomsky, the groom of Adelaide Yepanchina.
9. Hippolyte's suicide attempt.
10. Meeting of the prince with Aglaya, and then with Nastasya Filippovna.
11. Prince Myshkin appears before Epanchina's relatives and guests, Aglaya refuses to marry him.
12. The prince is faced with a choice, he remains with Nastasya Filippovna.
13. On the day of the wedding, she leaves with Rogozhin.
14. Myshkin learns that Rogozhin killed Nastasya Filippovna.
15. Rogozhin is sent to hard labor, Prince Myshkin is placed in a hospital with a confused mind.
retelling
Part I
Chapter 1
At the end of November, a train from Switzerland arrives in St. Petersburg. Three passengers meet. One of them is Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, “a young man of about twenty-six years of age, slightly taller than average, very blond, thick-haired, with sunken cheeks and a light, pointed ... beard”, the last of a noble noble family. As a child, he fell ill with a severe nervous illness, was orphaned early and was placed by his benefactor Pavlishchev in a Swiss sanatorium. After living there for four years, he returns to his homeland with unclear, but big plans to serve her. The second is Parfen Rogozhin, the son of a wealthy merchant, who inherited a huge fortune after his father's death. He tells about himself: his father died, neither his mother nor his brother was notified, and they did not even send money for the trip; he himself annoyed his parent with revelry, beguiled sin, from Pskov, almost without boots, he goes home to St. Petersburg; brother scoundrel, from the cover of the brocade on the coffin of the parent, at night he cut off cast gold brushes. It's good that Parfyon's lawyers wrote off his share, more than a million. From him, the prince for the first time hears the name of Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, the mistress of a certain wealthy nobleman Trotsky, whom Rogozhin is passionately infatuated with. “The face is cheerful, but she suffered terribly,” says the prince, examining her portrait. The third is Lebedev, a rogue official who always knows everything.
Chapter 2
The prince with his modest bundle goes to the house of distant relatives, to General Yepanchin. There are three daughters in the general's family: the eldest Alexandra, the middle Adelaide and the youngest, a common favorite and beauty, Aglaya. In the hall, the prince talks on an equal footing with the lackey, which leads the general to think: “The prince is just a fool and has no ambitions, because a smart prince with ambition would not sit in the hall and talk about his affairs with a lackey.” Nevertheless, "for some reason he liked the prince."
Chapter 3
In the office of the prince receives the general. General Epanchin immediately fences himself off from the prince: he says that he is very busy, that there can be no family ties between them. The prince speaks frankly about himself: he was seriously ill, "frequent attacks of illness made him almost an idiot (the prince said so idiot)." The general introduces the prince to his extremely proud secretary Ganya Ivolgin, in whom Myshkin sees a portrait of Nastasya Filippovna. “This extraordinary beauty ... the face is even more striking now. It was as if there was boundless pride and contempt, almost hatred in this face, and at the same time something trusting, something surprisingly simple-hearted: these two contrasts even aroused, as it were, some kind of compassion ... This blinding beauty of a pale face, almost sunken cheeks and burning eyes; strange beauty!
Chapter 4
The prince is told some details of the fate of Nastasya Filippovna. As a girl, an orphan, she ended up in the house of the rich Mr. Totsky. He took her in for upbringing, gave her an education, and then seduced her, turned her into a concubine, and then abandoned her. Totsky, trying to get rid of her and hatching plans to marry one of the daughters of the Epanchins, woo her for Ganya Ivolgin, giving seventy-five thousand as a dowry, which beckon Ganya. With their help, he dreams of breaking out into the people and in the future to significantly increase his capital, but at the same time he is haunted by the humiliation of the situation. He prefers marriage with Aglaya Yepanchina, with whom he is even a little in love (although here, too, he will have the opportunity to enrich himself). He expects a decisive word from her, making his further actions dependent on this.
Chapters 5, 6
The prince strikes the Yepanchin family with spontaneity, gullibility, frankness and naivety, so extraordinary that at first they accept him very warily. For example, when asked if Aglaya was beautiful, he replied: “Almost as good as Nastasya Filippovna.” His insight, spiritual sensitivity surprises: “Nothing should be hidden from children under the pretext that they are small and that it is too early for them to know. What a sad and unfortunate thought! ... Big ones do not know that a child, even in the most difficult task, can give extremely important advice". Children are sincere, so Prince Mouse is well with them: “I ... don’t like to be with adults - I don’t like it, because I don’t know how. ... For some reason, it’s always hard for me with them, and I’m terribly glad when I can leave as soon as possible to my comrades, and my comrades have always been children ... ”Every day they begin to treat him with more and more sympathy. It turns out that the prince, who seemed to be a simpleton, and to some people a cunning one, is very intelligent, and in some things he is really deep, for example, when he talks about the death penalty he saw abroad.
Chapter 7
The prince becomes an involuntary mediator between Aglaya, who unexpectedly makes him her confidant, and Ganya, causing irritation and anger in him. Meanwhile, the prince is offered to settle not just anywhere, but in the Ivolgins' apartment.
Chapter 8
At the Ivolgins, the prince, not having time to take the room provided to him, gets acquainted with all the inhabitants of the apartment, starting with Ganya’s relatives and ending with his sister’s fiancé, the young usurer Ptitsyn and the master of incomprehensible occupations Ferdyshchenko. He becomes close to Ganya's thirteen-year-old brother Kolya Ivolgin.
Suddenly Nastasya Filippovna appears. The prince opened the door for her, and she mistook him at first for a lackey. She came to invite Ganya and his relatives to her for the evening.
Chapters 9, 10
Nastasya Filippovna amuses herself by listening to the fantasies of General Ivolgin, which only inflame the atmosphere. Soon a noisy company appears with Rogozhin at the head, who lays out eighteen thousand in front of Nastasya Filippovna. She scoffs: is it her, Nastasya Filippovna, for eighteen thousand? There is something like bargaining, with her contemptuously-mocking participation. Rogozhin is not going to retreat, he promises to bring a hundred thousand by the evening. For sister and mother Ganya, what is happening is unbearably insulting. Ganya's sister Varvara Ardalionovna can't stand it and calls Nastasya Filippovna "shameless". A scandal breaks out: an indignant sister spits in Ghana's face. “Ganya’s eyes dimmed, and, completely forgetting, he swung at his sister with all his might. The blow would surely hit her in the face. But suddenly another hand stopped Ganinuruka on the fly. Between him and his sister stood the prince. The enraged Ganya "slapped the prince with all his might." The prince acts, it would seem, strange: he sympathizes with the offender. "Oh, how you will be ashamed of your act!" - in this phrase all the meekness of the prince. Then he turns to Nastasya Filippovna: “And you are not ashamed! Are you the way you present yourself!” In response to the reproach, Nastasya Filippovna kisses mother Ganya’s hand and “quickly, hotly, all of a sudden flushing and blushing,” whispers: “I’m really not like that, he guessed it.” She leaves with confusion in her soul: from that moment she fell in love with the prince.
Chapters 11-13
Ganya comes to obey the prince. In the evening, the prince goes to Nastasya Filippovna. A "motley" society has gathered here - from General Yepanchin, also carried away by the heroine, to the "jester" Ferdyshchenko.
Chapters 14, 15
Nastasya Filippovna asks a sudden question to the prince, a person she barely knows, about the proposed wedding with Ganya Ivolgin: “Tell me, what do you think: to marry or not? As you say, I'll do it." Everyone is amazed. The prince whispers: "... no ... don't come out," and Nastasya Filippovna declares the matter resolved. She replies to the protesting remarks: “The prince for me is that I was the first in him, in my whole life, as I believed in a truly devoted person. He believed in me at first sight, and I believe him.” The plans of Totsky, who is present here, are thereby destroyed. By midnight, a company led by Rogozhin appears, who lays out a hundred thousand wrapped in a newspaper in front of Nastasya Filippovna. Nastasya Filippovna reprimands Ganya: “Did you really want to introduce me into your family? Rogozhin’s me! .. It was he who traded me: he started with eighteen thousand, then these hundred ... "
The prince is hurt by what is happening, he confesses his love to Nastasya Filippovna and expresses his readiness to take her, “as it is without anything!”, as a wife. She is shocked: “What will you live for, if you are already so in love that you take Rogozhin for yourself, for the prince?” He replies: “I take you honestly, not Rogozhin’s ... I don’t know anything ... and I didn’t see anything, but I ... I will consider that you are me, and not I will do honor. I am nothing, but you suffered and came out of such a hell clean, and this is a lot ... I love you, Nastasya Filippovna. I will die for you...” He finally tells what he wanted to say all day, but he was interrupted: he received a letter while still in Switzerland, with the news that he was supposed to receive a million-dollar inheritance from a dead aunt.
Chapter 16
“The denouement is unexpected ... I ... didn’t expect it that way,” says Nastasya Filippovna. - One and a half million, and even a prince, and even, they say, an idiot to boot, what better? Rogozhin is late! Put away your pack, I'm marrying a prince and I'm richer than you myself! Nastasya Filippovna is seized by a flash of pride, a hysterical attack. She throws a bundle of banknotes into the fireplace and tells Hana to get it out of the fire with her hands, otherwise they will burn: after all, he wanted to marry her because of Totsky's money. Ganya restrains himself with the last of his strength so as not to rush after the outbreak of money, he wants to leave, but falls unconscious. Nastasya Filippovna herself snatches out a bundle with fireplace tongs and leaves the money to Ghana "as a reward for his torment" (later they will be proudly returned to them). She herself does not want to ruin the prince and decides to go with Rogozhin.
Part II
Chapter 1
Six months pass. There are rumors in St. Petersburg that Nastasya Filippovna fled several times from Rogozhin to the prince, stayed with him for some time, but then also fled from the prince. The life of the rest went back to normal.
The prince travels around Russia, in particular on inheritance cases, and simply out of interest in traveling around the country.
Chapter 2
In June, the prince comes from Moscow to St. Petersburg. At the station, the prince feels someone's hot gaze on him, which awakens vague forebodings in him. He meets with Lebedev.
Chapters 3, 4
The prince pays a visit to Rogozhin in his gloomy, like a prison, house on Gorokhovaya Street. During their conversation, the prince notices a garden knife lying on the table, he now and then takes it in his hands, until Rogozhin, finally, in annoyance, takes it away. The prince sees on the wall a copy of the painting by Hans Holbein, which depicts the savior, only taken down from the cross. Rogozhin says that he loves to look at her, the prince exclaims in amazement: "... from this picture, another may still lose faith," and Rogozhin unexpectedly confirms this. Rogozhin offers to exchange crosses, leads the prince to his mother for a blessing, since they are now like brothers.
Chapter 5
After wandering around the city, in the evening the prince returns to his hotel. At the gate, he suddenly notices a familiar figure and rushes after her to a dark narrow staircase. Here he sees the same as at the station, the sparkling eyes of Rogozhin, the knife raised. At the same moment, an epileptic seizure occurs with the prince. Rogozhin runs away. Kolya Ivolgin transports the prince to Lebedev's dacha in Pavlovsk.
Chapter 6
The Ivolgin family moves to Lebedev. The Yepanchin family and, according to rumors, Nastasya Filippovna are also in Pavlovsk. The prince gathers a society of acquaintances, including the Yepanchins, who decided to visit the sick prince. Kolya Ivolgin teases Aglaya as a "poor knight", alluding to her sympathy for the prince and arousing the interest of Aglaya's mother, Elizaveta Prokofievna, so that her daughter is forced to explain that the poems depict a person who is capable of having an ideal and give his life for this ideal.
Chapter 7
Aglaya reads Pushkin's poem with inspiration. A little later, a group of young people appears. One of them, a certain Burdovsky, claims that he is "the son of Pavlishchev." They seem to be nihilists, but only, in the words of Lebedev, "they went further, sir, because they are primarily businesslike, sir."
Chapters 8, 9
A libel is read from a newspaper about the prince. Everyone is embarrassed, and then they demand from him that he, as a noble and fair man rewarded the son of his benefactor. However, Ganya Ivolgin, who was instructed by the prince to deal with this matter, proves that Burdovsky is not Pavlishchev's son at all. The company at first retreats in embarrassment, but then again attacks the prince. Unable to bear it, Lizaveta Prokofievna tries to convince everyone, but she is reassured.
Chapter 10
The consumptive Ippolit Terentyev now turns all attention to himself, who begins to “orate” in order to assert himself. He wants to be pitied and praised. At the same time, he is ashamed of his openness, his enthusiasm is replaced by rage, especially against the prince. Then he leaves with his friends, while Myshkin listens attentively to everyone, feels sorry for everyone and feels guilty before everyone. When everyone disperses, a carriage with Nastasya Filippovna appears. She is talking familiarly with Prince Yevgeny Pavlovich Radomsky, who is courting Aglaya. He pretends not to know her.
Chapters 11, 12
Three days later, Lizaveta Prokofievna herself comes to the prince and interrogates him about the letter to Aglaya. She then takes him to her.
Part III
Chapters 1, 2
The whole family gathered in the Yepanchins' house, as well as Radomsky and Prince Shch., Adelaide's fiancé. They all go for a walk. At the station, they see another company, in which Nastasya Filippovna. She again treats Radomsky familiarly, informing him of the suicide of his uncle, who squandered a large treasury sum. Everyone is indignant at the provocation. The officer, a friend of Radomsky, remarks: "Here you just need a whip, otherwise you won’t take anything with this creature!" The officer wants to hit Nastasya Filippovna, but Prince Myshkin holds him back. Rogozhin appears and takes her away.
Chapters 3, 4
In the evening, the prince receives a note from Aglaya, and later meets with Rogozhin, who informs him that Nastasya Filippovna is writing letters to Aglaya. Returning to his place, the prince finds a merry company there, celebrating his birthday.
Chapters 5-7
Ippolit Terentyev reads aloud My Necessary Explanation, written by him, a confession of amazing depth by a young man who hardly lived, but who changed his mind a lot, doomed by illness to an untimely death. After reading, he tries to commit suicide, but there is no bullet in the gun. They begin to laugh at him, but the prince defends Ippolit, who was painfully afraid of seeming ridiculous, from attacks and ridicule.
It's already dawn and the prince is coming on a date with Aglaya.
Chapter 8
Aglaya invites the prince to become her friend and run away with her. The prince feels that he truly loves her. Here they meet Lizaveta Prokofievna, and she calls the prince to her.
Chapters 9, 10
Returning to his room, the prince is talking to Lebedev. Myshkin reads the letters that Nastasya Filippovna wrote to Aglaya. A little later, he goes to wander around the park and ends up at the Epanchins' house, and then in the same park the prince and Nastasya Filippovna meet. She kneels before him and asks him if he is happy with Aglaya, and then disappears with Rogozhin.
Part IV
Chapters 1-4
A week later, arriving from the Yepanchins' house, Varvara Ardalionovna informs Ghana that the prince has formally been declared Aglaya's fiancé. Ganya shows her sister a note from Aglaya, where she asks to meet her. General Ivolgin has a blow.
Chapters 5-7
For some time, the prince is blissful from the realization that Aglaya loves him. One evening, a kind of “bride-in-law” of the prince was to take place at the Yepanchins, high-ranking guests were invited. Aglaya believes that the prince is incomparably superior to all of them, but she is afraid that he will say or do something wrong. From this, the prince is even more nervous and afraid to make a wrong gesture, is silent, but then painfully inspired, talks a lot about Catholicism as anti-Christianity, declares his love to everyone, breaks a precious Chinese vase and falls in another fit. The audience becomes uncomfortable. Aglaya says that she never considered him her fiancé.
Chapter 8
The next day, the prince comes to visit the Yepanchin family. Then Hippolyte comes to him. Aglaya makes an appointment with Nastasya Filippovna in Pavlovsk, to which she comes with the prince. Rogozhin is also present. Aglaya asks sternly and hostilely what right Nastasya Filippovna has to write letters to her and in general interfere with her and the prince. personal life. Offended by the tone and attitude of her rival, Nastasya Filippovna, in an angry outburst, orders the prince to stay with her and drives Rogozhin away. The prince is torn between two women. Rogozhin leaves. The prince realizes that he loves Nastasya Filippovna with love-pity and is unable to leave her.
Chapter 9
Two weeks passed, rumors about the latest events circulated around Pavlovsk. The prince's condition was getting worse, he was more and more immersed in mental confusion.
Chapter 10
The day of the wedding of the prince and Nastasya Filippovna is appointed. General Ivolgin soon dies. On the eve of the wedding, Nastasya Filippovna, inspired, joyfully prepares for the wedding. On the wedding day, near the church, she sees Rogozhin and suddenly rushes to him, asking him to take her away from here. Parfyon picks her up in his arms, gets into the carriage and takes her away. The prince follows her.
Chapter 11
In Petersburg, the prince immediately goes to Rogozhin. The old woman who opened the door says that he is not at home, but it seems to the prince that Rogozhin seems to be looking at him from behind the curtain. The prince goes to the apartment of Nastasya Filippovna, goes to her friends, trying to find out something about her. He returns to Rogozhin's house several times, but to no avail: he is not there, no one knows anything. All day the prince wanders around the sultry city, believing that Parfyon will certainly appear. Unexpectedly, he meets him: Rogozhin asks him in a whisper to follow him. In the house, he leads the prince into a room. There, in an alcove on a bed under a white sheet, furnished with "bottles with Zhdanov's liquid" so that the smell of decay is not felt, lies the dead Nastasya Filippovna. Rogozhin admits that he killed her. Rogozhin leaves the prince to spend the night with him over the corpse, and when the door was opened the next day in the presence of the police, they “found the murderer in complete unconsciousness and fever. The prince sat motionless and quiet beside him, each time at the outburst of a cry or delirium of the patient, he hastened to run his trembling hand over his hair and cheeks, as if caressing and calming him. But he no longer understood what they were asking him about, and did not recognize the people who entered.
Chapter 12
At the trial, Rogozhin averted all suspicions of complicity from the prince, taking all the blame from himself. Rogozhin is sentenced to fifteen years hard labor. Prince Myshkin is again placed in a hospital in Switzerland. His mind was completely shattered. Aglaya married some scoundrel, allegedly a Polish count, and quarreled with her family. Aglaya plunges her soul into Catholicism, hated by Prince Myshkin.
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