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Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (pre-reform Russian: князь Левъ Николаевичъ Мышкинъ; post-reform Russian: князь Лев Николаевич Мышкин, romanized: knyazʹ Lev Nikoláyevich Mýshkin) is the main protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot.
(For further discussion of the major characters see Prince Myshkin) Prince Myshkin, the novel's central character, is a young man who has returned to Russia after a long period abroad where he was receiving treatment for epilepsy. The lingering effects of the illness, combined with his innocence and lack of social experience, sometimes create ...
The film begins on a train bound for Saint Petersburg, where Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, recently returned to Russia after four years of treatment in a Swiss sanatorium, meets the wealthy merchant Parfyon Rogozhin. During their conversation, Myshkin learns about Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, a former mistress of a nobleman named Totsky.
Nastasya Filippovna and Myshkin become engaged, at her insistence, but on the day of the wedding she again flees to Rogozhin. In so doing, she abandons once and for all any hope of finally accepting herself, and effectively signs her own death warrant. [13] According to Bakhtin, for Nastasya Filippovna "Rogozhin means the knife, and she knows ...
Evgeny Mironov — Prince Myshkin; Lidiya Velezheva — Nastasya Filippovna; Vladimir Mashkov — Parfyon Rogozhin; Aleksandr Lazarev Jr. — Gavrilya Ardalionovich Ivolgin; Oleg Basilashvili — General Ivan Yepanchin; Inna Churikova —Elizaveta Prokofieevna Yepanchina, General Yepanchin's wife; Olga Budina — Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina ...
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Myshkin (masculine) or Myshkina (feminine) may refer to: Myshkin (surname) ( Myshkina ), list of real and fictional people with this family name Myshkin (town) , a town in Myshkinsky District of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
After success in the role of Prince Myshkin in the play The Idiot in 1973, he was invited to the Lenkom Theatre. [2] Yankovsky's film career was launched when he was cast in two movies The Shield and the Sword (1968) by director Vladimir Basov about World War II and Two Comrades Were Serving (1968) by Yevgeny Karelov about Russian Civil War.