Brief and complete content of Dostoevsky's novel idiot.
A novel in four parts
Part one
I
At the end of November, during the thaw, at nine o'clock in the morning, the train of the Petersburg-Warsaw railway approached Petersburg at full speed. It was so damp and foggy that it was hardly dawn; ten paces to the right and left of the road, it was difficult to see anything from the windows of the car. Of the passengers were those returning from abroad; but the compartments for the third class were more filled, and all with petty and businesslike people, not from very far away. Everyone, as usual, was tired, everyone's eyes were heavy during the night, everyone was cold, all their faces were pale yellow, the color of fog. In one of the carriages of the third class, from dawn, found themselves facing each other, at the very window, two passengers both young people, both almost light, both not smartly dressed, both with rather remarkable physiognomies, and both who wished, at last, to enter with each other into conversation. If they both knew one about the other, in what way they are especially remarkable at this moment, then, of course, they would be surprised that chance had so strangely placed them opposite each other in the third-class carriage of the St. Petersburg-Warsaw train. 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. Especially noticeable in this face was his deathly pallor, which gave the whole physiognomy of the young man a haggard look, despite his rather strong build, and at the same time something passionate, to the point of suffering, not in harmony with his impudent and rude smile and with his sharp, self-satisfied look. . He was warmly dressed in a wide, lambskin black covered sheepskin coat, and did not get chilly during the night, while his neighbor was forced to endure on his shivering back all the sweetness of a damp Russian November night, for which he was obviously not prepared. He was wearing a rather wide and thick cloak without sleeves and with a huge hood, exactly as travellers, in winter, are often used somewhere far abroad, in Switzerland or, for example, in Northern Italy, not counting, of course, at the same time and to such ends along the road as from Eidtkunen to St. Petersburg. But what was suitable and quite satisfying in Italy turned out to be not entirely suitable in Russia. The owner of the cloak with a hood was a young man, also about twenty-six or twenty-seven, a little above average height, very blond, thick hair, sunken cheeks and a light, 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 at first glance in the subject epilepsy. The young man's face was, however, pleasant, thin and dry, but colorless, and now even blue-chilled. In his hands dangled a skinny bundle made of an old, faded foulard, containing, it seems, all his travel possessions. On his feet were thick-soled shoes with boots, everything is not in Russian. A dark-haired neighbor in a covered sheepskin coat saw all this, partly because he had nothing better to do, and finally asked with that indelicate smile in which human pleasure is sometimes expressed so unceremoniously and casually at the failures of one’s neighbor: Chilly? And shrugged. Very much, the neighbor answered with extreme readiness, and, mind you, it is still a thaw. What if it's cold? I didn't even think it was that cold here. Weaned. From abroad, or what? Yes, from Switzerland. Phew! Eh, after all, you! .. The black haired man whistled and chuckled. A conversation ensued. The willingness of a blond young man in a Swiss cloak answered all questions of his Black Maza neighbor was amazing and without any suspicion of perfect negligence, inappropriateness and idleness of other issues. Answering, he announced, among other things, that he really had not been in Russia for a long time, more than four years, that he had been sent abroad due to illness, for some strange nervous illness, like falling or vittus dance, some kind of tremors and convulsions. Listening to him, the black -haired grinned several times; he especially laughed when he asked: “Well, have you been cured?” the blond answered that “no, they didn’t cure it.” Heh! The money must have been overpayed for nothing, but we believe them here, the black-fashioned one sarcastically remarked. True truth! A badly dressed gentleman, who was sitting nearby, got involved in the conversation, something like a scrawny official in the clerkship, about forty years old, strong build, with a red nose and a pimply face, Oh, how wrong you are in my case, the Swiss patient picked up in a quiet and reconciling voice, of course, I can’t argue, because I don’t know everything, but my doctor gave me one of his last ones on the way here and almost two years there kept at his own expense. Well, there was no one to pay, or what? He asked the Black Sea. Yes, Mr. Pavlishchev, who kept me there, died two years ago; Later I wrote here to General Yepanchina, my distant relative, but received no answer. So with that, he came. Where did you come to? That is, where will I stop? .. Yes, I don’t know yet, right ... so ... Haven't decided yet? And both listeners laughed again. And I suppose your whole essence lies in this bundle? He asked the Black Sea. I am ready to bet that it is so, the red-nosed official picked up with an extremely pleased look, and that there is no further luggage in the baggage cars, although poverty is not a vice, which again cannot be overlooked. It turned out that this was also the case: the fair-haired young man immediately and with unusual haste admitted this. Your bundle still has some significance, the official continued when they had had their fill of laughter (it is remarkable that the owner of the bundle himself finally began to laugh, looking at them, which increased their gaiety), and although you can fight that it does not lie foreign gold bundles with napoleondors and friedrichsdores, lower with Dutch arapchiks, which can still be concluded even if only by the boots that envelop your foreign shoes, but ... if you add to your bundle in addition such an alleged relative, like, approximately, a general's wife Yepanchin, then the knot will take on some other meaning, of course, only if General Yepanchina is really a relative of you and you are not mistaken, out of absent-mindedness ... which is very, very characteristic of a person, well, at least ... from an excess of imagination. Oh, you guessed it again, the blond young man picked up, I really am almost mistaken, that is, almost not a relative; even to the point that, really, I was not at all surprised then that they did not answer me there. That's what I was waiting for. They spent the money for the franking of the letter for nothing. Hm ... at least they are simple-hearted and sincere, and this is commendable! Hm ... we know General Yepanchin, sir, actually, because he is a well-known person; and the late Mr. Pavlishchev, who supported you in Switzerland, was also known, sir, if only it was Nikolai Andreevich Pavlishchev, because their two cousins. The other is still in the Crimea, and Nikolai Andreevich, the deceased, was a respectable man, and with connections, and four thousand souls at one time had, sir ... That's right, his name was Nikolai Andreevich Pavlishchev, and, answering, the young man looked intently and inquisitively at Mr. know-it-all. These gentlemen of the know-it-all meet sometimes, even quite often, in a certain social stratum. They know everything, all the restless inquisitiveness of their minds and abilities rush irresistibly in one direction, of course, in the absence of more important vital interests and views, as a modern thinker would say. By the word “everyone knows,” one must understand, however, a rather limited area: where such and such serves, with whom he is familiar, how much fortune he has, where he was governor, to whom he was married, how much he took for his wife, who is his cousin, who are second cousins, etc., etc., and everything like that. For the most part, these know-it-alls walk around with skinned elbows and receive seventeen rubles a month's salary. People about whom they know all the ins and outs, of course, would not have figured out what interests guide them, and yet many of them are positively consoled by this knowledge, which is equal to a whole science, they achieve self-respect and even the highest spiritual contentment. Yes, science is fascinating. I have seen scientists, writers, poets, politicians who found and found in the same science their highest reconciliations and goals, even positively making a career only by this. Throughout all this conversation, a black man yawned, looked at the window without a target and was looking forward to the end of the journey. He was somehow absent-minded, very absent-minded, almost alarmed, he even became somehow strange: sometimes he listened and did not listen, looked and did not look, laughed and sometimes he himself did not know and did not understand why he was laughing. Excuse me, with whom I have the honor ... the pimply gentleman suddenly turned to a blond young man with a bundle. Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, he answered with complete and immediate readiness. Prince Myshkin? Lev Nikolaevich? I don't know. So I didn’t even hear it, the official answered in thought, that is, I’m not talking about the name, the name is historical, you can and should find it in Karamzin’s “History”, I’m talking about the face, sir, and the princes Myshkins are already something is not found anywhere, even the rumor has died down, sir. Oh, of course! the prince immediately answered, now there are no princes of the Myshkins at all, except for me; I think I'm the last one. And as for the fathers and grandfathers, they were with us and the same palace. My father was, however, a lieutenant in the army, from the junkers. Yes, I don’t know how General Yepanchina ended up also from the Myshkin princesses, also the last of her kind ... He-he-he! The last of its kind! Hehe! How did you turn it around, the official giggled. The black man chuckled too. The fair-haired man was somewhat surprised that he managed to say, however, a rather bad pun. And imagine, I said it without thinking at all, he finally explained in surprise. Yes, it’s understandable, sir, it’s understandable, the official assented cheerfully. And what did you, prince, study sciences there, with a professor? the black man suddenly asked. Yes... studied... But I never learned anything. Why, I’m like that too, just for something, the prince added, almost in apology. Due to illness, they did not find it possible to teach me systematically. Do you know the Rogozhins? The black -haired asked quickly. No, I don't know, not at all. I know very few people in Russia. Are you Rogozhin? Yes, I, Rogozhin, Parfyon. Parfen? Yes, these are not the same Rogozhins ... the official began with heightened importance. Yes, those who quickly and with impatient impatience were interrupted by the black -haired, who, however, had never addressed the opposed official, but from the very beginning, he spoke only to one prince. Yes... how is it? the official was surprised to the point of tetanus and almost bulged his eyes, whose whole face immediately began to take shape in something reverent, and obsequious, even frightened, this is the same Semyon Parfenovich Rogozhin, a hereditary honorary citizen, who died a month ago and two and a half million capital left? And how did you know that he left two and a half million net worth? He interrupted the black -haired, not awarding this time to look at the official. Look after all! (he winked at him to the prince) and what's the use of this only to them, that they immediately climb in like henchmen? And it’s true that my parent died, and in a month I’m going home from Pskov almost without boots. Neither the brother, the scoundrel, nor the mother, nor the money, nor the notification sent anything! Like a dog! He lay in a fever in Pskov for the whole month. And now you have to get a millionaire with more than once, and this at least, oh my God! The official threw up his hands. Well, what is he, tell me, please! Rogozhin nodded irritably and angrily at him again, after all, I won’t give you a penny, even though you walk upside down in front of me here. And I will, and I will walk. Vish! Why, I won’t give it, I won’t give it, if you like, dance for a whole week! And don't! That's what I need; do not give! And I will dance. I will leave my wife and small children, and I will dance in front of you. Flatter, flatter! Fie you! The black -haired spat. Five weeks ago, I, like you, he turned to the prince, ran away with one bundle from a parent to Pskov, to his aunt; Yes, he fell ill with a fever, and he would die without me. Kondrashka hurt. Eternal memory to the deceased, but he almost killed me then to death! Do you believe, prince, by God! If I hadn't run away, I would have killed you. Did you anger him in any way? the prince answered with some special curiosity, examining the millionaire in the sheepskin coat. But although there could be something noteworthy in the million itself and in receiving the inheritance, the prince was surprised and interested in something else; and Rogozhin himself, for some reason, especially willingly took the prince as his interlocutor, although he seemed to need companionship more mechanically than morally; somehow more from absent-mindedness than from simplicity of heart; from anxiety, from excitement, just to look at someone and bang your tongue about something. It seemed that he was still in a fever, and at least in a fever. As for the official, he just hung over Rogozhin, did not dare to breathe, caught and weighed every word, as if he were looking for a diamond. He got angry, yes, maybe he should have, answered Rogozhin, but my brother drove me most of all. There is nothing to say about mother, an old woman, Cheti-Minei reads, sits with old women, and that Senka-brother will decide, so be it. Why didn't he let me know? We understand! It's true, I was unconscious at the time. Also, they say, the telegram was launched. Yes, a telegram to your aunt and come. And she has been a widow there for the thirtieth year and has been sitting with the holy fools from morning till night. A nun is not a nun, but even worse. She was frightened of the telegrams, and without opening them, she presented them to the unit, and so she lay there until now. Only Konev, Vasily Vasilyich, helped out, wrote everything off. From the cover of the brocade on the coffin of the parent, at night, the brother cut off cast, golden brushes: “They, they say, what money they cost.” Why, he can go to Siberia for that alone, if I want to, because it is sacrilege. Hey you scarecrow pea! He turned to the official. How according to the law: blasphemy? Sacrilege! Sacrilege! The official immediately agreed. For this to Siberia? To Siberia, to Siberia! Immediately to Siberia! “They all think that I’m still sick,” Rogozhin continued to the prince, “and I, without saying a word, slowly, still sick, got into the car and went: open the gate, brother Semyon Semyonitch! He told the deceased parent about me, I know. And that I really irritated my parent then through Nastasya Filippovna is true. Here I am alone. Confused sin. Through Nastasya Filippovna? obsequiously said the official, as if thinking something. But you don't know! Rogozhin shouted at him impatiently. An u know! the official answered triumphantly. Evona! How little Nastassy Filippovna! And what a brazen you are, I'll tell you, creature! Well, that's how I knew that some kind of creature like that would immediately hang! he continued to the prince. An, maybe I know, sir! The official hesitated. Lebedev knows! You, Your Grace, would like to reproach me, but what if I prove it? This same Nastasya Filippovna is the one through whom your parent wished to inspire you with a viburnum staff, and Nastasya Filippovna is Barashkova, even a noble lady, so to speak, and also a princess in her own way, but she knows a certain Totsky, with Afanasy Ivanovich, with one exclusively , a landowner and a capitalist, a member of companies and societies, and a great friendship on this score with General Yepanchin leading ... Ege, that's what you are! Rogozhin was really surprised at last. Ugh, hell, but he really knows. He knows everything! Lebedev knows everything! I, Your Grace, traveled with Aleksashka Likhachev for two months, and also after the death of a parent, and I know everything, that is, I know all the corners and alleyways, and without Lebedev, it came to the point that not a single step. Now he is present in the debt department, and then Armans, and Koralia, and Princess Patskaya, and Nastasya Filippovna had the opportunity to learn, and he had the opportunity to learn a lot of things. Nastasya Filippovna? But is she with Likhachev ... Rogozhin looked angrily at him, even his lips turned pale and trembled. N-nothing! N-n-nothing! How to eat nothing! the official caught himself and hurried up as soon as possible, n-no, that is, Likhachev could not get there with money! No, it's not like Armance. There is only one Totsky. Yes, in the evening in the Grand Ali at the French Theater he sits in his own box. The officers there say little among themselves, but even they cannot prove anything: “here, they say, this is the same Nastasya Filippovna,” and nothing more; and about further nothing! Because there is nothing. That's all the way it is, Rogozhin confirmed gloomily and frowning, Zalezhev also told me then. I then, prince, in my father's third-day bekesh ran across the Nevsky, and she left the store, got into the carriage. So I got burned here. I meet Zalezhev, he is not like me, he walks like a clerk from a hairdresser, and a lorgnette in his eye, and we were different from my parent in oily boots and on lean cabbage soup. This, he says, is not a couple for you, this, he says, is a princess, but her name is Nastasya Filippovna, the last name is Barashkova, and she lives with Totsky, and Totsky now doesn’t know how to get rid of her, because, that is, she has reached real years, fifty-five, and wants to marry the most beautiful woman in all Petersburg. It was then that he inspired me that today you can see Nastasya Filippovna at the Bolshoi Theater, in ballet, in her box, in the binoir, she will sit. With us, with a parent, try to go to the ballet, one reprisal will kill! However, I ran away quietly for an hour and saw Nastasya Filippovna again; didn't sleep all that night. The next morning, the dead man gives me two five-percent tickets, five thousand each, go, they say, and sell it, and take seven thousand five hundred to the Andreevs’ office, pay, and imagine the rest of the change from ten thousand, without going anywhere, imagine to me; I will wait for you. I sold the tickets, took the money, but I didn’t go to the Andreevs’ office, but went, without looking anywhere, to the English store and for all the pair of pendants and chose one diamond in each, that way it’ll be almost like a nut, four hundred rubles should have stayed, said the name, believed. With pendants, I went to Zalezhev: so and so, let's go, brother, to Nastasya Filippovna. Let's go. What is under my feet then, what is in front of me, what is on the sides - I do not know and do not remember anything. They entered the hall directly to her, she herself came out to us. That is, I didn’t say then that I myself am; and “from Parfyon, they say, Rogozhin,” Zalezhev says, “to you in memory of yesterday’s meeting; kindly accept." She opened it, looked, grinned: “Thank you, she says, to your friend Mr. Rogozhin for his kind attention,” she bowed and left. Well, that's why I didn't die here then! Yes, if he went, it was because he thought: “It doesn’t matter, I won’t return alive!” And the most insulting of all, it seemed to me that this beast Zalezhev appropriated everything for himself. I’m small in stature, and dressed like a lackey, and I stand, I’m silent, I stare at her, because I’m ashamed, and he, in all fashion, in lipstick and curled, ruddy, a checkered tie, She probably took it here instead of me! “Well, I say, as we left, you don’t dare to think here now, you understand!” He laughs: “But how are you going to give an account to Semyon Parfenych now?” True, I wanted to go into the water at the same time, without going home, but I thought: “After all, it doesn’t matter,” and, like a cursed one, returned home. Eh! Wow! the official grimaced, and even shivered through him, and after all, the dead man lived for the next world not only for ten thousand, but for ten rubles, he nodded to the prince. The prince examined Rogozhin with curiosity; he seemed even paler at that moment. Lived! Rogozhin spoke up. What do you know? Immediately, he continued to the prince, he found out about everything, and Zalezhev went to chat with everyone he met. My parent took me, and locked me upstairs, and lectured for an hour. “It’s just me, he says, I’m preparing you, but I’ll come in with you for another night to say goodbye.” What do you think? He went gray-haired to Nastasya Filippovna, bowed to her earthly, begged and wept; She finally brought him a box, slammed: “Here, he says, you, old beard, your earrings, and they are now ten times more expensive for me, if Parfyon got them from under such a thunderstorm. Bow down, he says, and thank Parfyon Semyonitch. Well, and this time, with my mother’s blessing, I got twenty rubles from Seryozhka Protushin and drove to Pskov by car and set off, but I arrived in a fever; the old women began to read me there with the holy calendar, and I was sitting drunk, and then I went to the last taverns, but in insensibility all night on the street and lay there, but by morning I had a fever, and in the meantime the dogs gnawed more during the night. Violently woke up. Well, well, well, now Nastasya Filippovna will sing with us! rubbing his hands, the official chuckled, now, sir, what a pendant! Now we will reward such pendants ... And the fact that if you say a word about Nastasya Filippovna at least once, then, God, I’ll flog you, even though you went with Likhachev, cried Rogozhin, tightly grabbing his hand. And if you carve, then you will not reject! Seki! Carved, and thereby captured ... And here they are! Indeed, they entered the railway station. Although Rogozhin said that he left quietly, several people were already waiting for him. They shouted and waved their hats at him. Look, and Zalezhev is here! Rogozhin muttered, looking at them with a triumphant and even, as it were, malicious smile, and suddenly turned to the prince. Prince, I don't know why I fell in love with you. Maybe because at that moment I met him, but, after all, I met him (he pointed to Lebedev), but he didn’t fall in love with him. Come to me, prince. We'll take off those boots from you, I'll dress you in the best fur coat, I'll sew you the best tailcoat, a white waistcoat or whatever you like, I'll stuff my pockets full of money, and ... we'll go to Nastasya Filippovna! Are you coming or not? Pay attention, Prince Lev Nikolaevich! Lebedev added impressively and solemnly. Oh, don't miss out! Oh, don't miss out! Prince Myshkin half rose, politely held out his hand to Rogozhin, and kindly said to him: I will come with the greatest pleasure and thank you very much for loving me. I might even come today, if I have time. Therefore, I will tell you frankly, I liked you very much, and especially when they talked about diamond pendants. Even before you liked the pendants, although you have a gloomy face. I also thank you for the dresses you promised me and for the fur coat, because I really need a dress and a fur coat soon. I have almost no money at the moment. There will be money, by the evening there will be, come! They will, they will, picked up the official, by evening, before dawn, they will! And before the female sex, you, prince, are a great hunter? Tell before! I, n-n-no! I, after all... Perhaps you don't know, because I don't even know women at all due to my congenital illness. Well, if so, Rogozhin exclaimed, you, prince, are coming out a holy fool, and God loves people like you! And God loves such people, picked up the official. And you follow me, line, said Rogozhin to Lebedev, and everyone got out of the car. Lebedev ended up achieving his goal. Soon the noisy gang left in the direction of Voznesensky Prospekt. The prince had to turn towards Liteiny. It was damp and wet; The prince asked passers-by, to the end of the path ahead of him, it was about three versts, and he decided to take a cab.This article describes the work created by Dostoevsky from 1867 to 1869. "The Idiot", a summary of which we have compiled, is a novel published for the first time in the journal "Russian Messenger". This composition is one of the most famous in the work of Fyodor Mikhailovich. And today the great work, the author of which is Dostoevsky - "The Idiot" does not lose popularity. Summary, reviews of the novel, the history of creation - all this continues to interest numerous readers.
Beginning of the first part
Three fellow travelers get acquainted in a train car: Rogozhin Parfen Semenovich, a young heir to a large fortune, Myshkin Lev Nikolaevich, a 26-year-old prince, his age, and Lebedev, a retired official. This is how Dostoevsky begins his work. The Idiot (Summary, Chapter 1) further introduces the reader to these characters. The prince returns to St. Petersburg from Switzerland, where he was treated for a nervous illness. Lev Nikolaevich was orphaned early and was until recently in the care of the benefactor Pavlishchev. It was at his expense that he improved his health. However, the trustee recently died.
Rogozhin travels in order to enter into the inheritance. He is in love with Barashkova Nastasya Filippovna, the kept woman of Totsky Afanasy Ivanovich, a wealthy aristocrat. Parfyon spent his father's money for her sake - he bought diamond earrings for his beloved. Semyon Rogozhin almost killed his son for this impudent act, who was forced to flee to his aunt from parental anger. However, Rogozhin's father died unexpectedly.
Myshkin is sent to Yepanchin - the main character created by Dostoevsky - an "idiot"
The summary, the main character of which is Myshkin, continues. Travelers disperse at the station. Together with Lebedev, Parfen leaves, and Myshkin goes to Ivan Fedorovich Yepanchin, the general. His wife (Lizaveta Prokofievna) is a distant relative of this prince. There are 3 beautiful unmarried daughters in the wealthy Yepanchin family: Adelaide, Alexandra and Aglaya, a common favorite.
Epanchin introduces Myshkin to his family and invites him to live in a boarding house, which Ivolgina Nina Alexandrovna maintains. Ganya, her son, serves at Yepanchin. The reason for this courtesy is simple - the general wants to distract his wife from a delicate circumstance. The appearance of a new relative was very opportune.
The history of relations between Nastasya Filippovna and Totsky
It was Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, Totsky's mistress. Let us briefly describe the history of their relationship. A small property that belonged to Philip Barashkov was located not far from Totsky's estate. Once it burned down completely along with Philip's wife. Barashkov, shocked by this terrible event, went mad. He soon died, leaving his two daughters orphaned and destitute.
Out of pity, Totsky gave the girls to the family of his manager to raise them. The youngest of them soon died of whooping cough. But the eldest, Nastasya, when she grew up, became a real beauty. Totsky understood a lot about beautiful women. He decided to take his kept woman to a remote estate and visited there often.
So 4 years have passed. When Totsky decided to marry Alexandra, Yepanchin's eldest daughter, Nastasya threatened him that she would not allow this. Afanasy Ivanovich was frightened by her pressure and temporarily abandoned his intention. The millionaire, knowing the nature of his kept woman, understood that it didn’t cost her anything to make a public scandal or kill a wedding couple right at the altar.
After some time, Nastasya Filippovna settled in a separate apartment in St. Petersburg. People often gathered in her living room in the evenings. In addition to Totsky, this circle also included General Yepanchin, Ganya Ivolgin (his secretary) and a certain Ferdyshchenko, who was a guest of the boarding house maintained by Nina Alexandrovna. All of them were in love with Nastasya. Totsky still did not want to give up his intention to marry, but was still afraid of the wrath of Nastasya Filippovna.
Totsky's plan
We continue to describe the work that Dostoevsky created ("The Idiot"). The summary of Totsky's plan, which he told Yepanchin about, was that Nastasya should be married off to Ganya. The girl surprisingly calmly accepted the offer and promised to give an answer in the evening. The General's wife heard a rumor about it. In order to distract his wife from the impending family scandal, Prince Myshkin was needed.
Myshkin settles in a boarding house
Ganya took him to his home, set him up in a boarding house. Here Myshkin met Nina Alexandrovna, as well as Varya, her daughter, son Kolya, Ivolgin Ardalion Alexandrovich, the father of the family, and Ptitsyn, a certain gentleman, a friend of Ganya, who was courting Varvara. Ferdyshchenko, a neighbor at the boarding house, also came to get acquainted.
Two contenders
At this time, a quarrel flares up in the house because of the possible marriage of Ganya with Nastasya Filippovna. The fact is that the secretary's family is against kinship with a "fallen woman." Even 75 thousand rubles did not help (Totsky was ready to allocate such an amount as a dowry).
Nastasya Filippovna suddenly comes to visit, and then Lebedev, Rogozhin and the company of Parfyon's freeloaders appear in the house. Rogozhin arrived, having learned about the possible marriage of Nastasya and Ganya, in order to offer money for refusing the secretary. He is sure that Ganya can be bought. The merchant has the same opinion about Nastasya Filippovna: he promises her 18 thousand, after which he increases the amount to 100,000 rubles.
Slap from Ghani
With renewed vigor, a scandal flares up, which Dostoevsky describes in his work ("The Idiot"). A brief summary of it is approaching a climax. It culminates when Myshkin defends Varvara from Ganya's attack. From the enraged secretary, the prince receives a slap in the face, but does not answer it, only reproaching Ganya with a word. Nastasya Myshkin says that she is not what she wants to be known in society. The woman is grateful to the prince for this reproach, as well as for the gift of hope.
Myshkin comes in the evening without an invitation to Nastasya Filippovna. His hostess is happy to see him. She asks the prince to resolve the issue of her marriage and promises to do as he says. Myshkin says she shouldn't get married.
History with a stack of money
Dostoevsky (The Idiot) tells about one curious story. A brief summary of parts and chapters cannot be described without mentioning it.
Parfen Rogozhin appears with the promised money. He tosses the pack on the table. Seeing that prey is slipping out of his hands, General Yepanchin calls for the prince to intervene in the situation. Lev Nikolayevich proposes to Nastasya Filippovna and announces the inheritance. As it turned out, he came for him from Switzerland. The amount is huge, more than the one proposed by Rogozhin.
Nastasya thanks the prince, but declares honestly that she cannot spoil the reputation of an aristocrat. The woman agrees to go with Rogozhin. But first she wants to know: is it true that Ganya is ready for anything for the sake of money?
Nastasya throws a bundle of bills into the fireplace and tells the secretary to take them out with his bare hands. He finds the strength not to succumb to this provocation, is going to leave, but faints at the exit. Nastasya herself takes out the pack with tongs and instructs her to give it to the secretary when he wakes up, after which he goes to party with Parfyon.
The second part
We turn to the description of the second part of the work that Dostoevsky created - "The Idiot". The summary of this voluminous novel is difficult to fit into the format of one article. We have highlighted only the main events.
After spending the night with Rogozhin, Nastasya disappears. There are rumors that she went to Moscow. The prince and Parfyon are going there. On the eve of his departure, Ganya comes to Myshkin and gives 100 thousand rubles so that the prince returns them to Nastasya.
Six months pass. Varvara during this time married Ptitsyn. Secretary Ganya resigned from the service. He no longer appears at the Yepanchins. The matchmaking to Alexandra Totsky was upset. He married a French marquise, after which he went to Paris. Adelaide, the middle of the sisters, married unexpectedly and successfully. There are rumors that Myshkin's legacy is not so great. Rogozhin nevertheless managed to find Nastasya Filippovna, with whom he tried to marry twice. But every time the bride ran away to Myshkin from the crown, after which she returned to Rogozhin again.
Strange relationship between Rogozhin and Myshkin
The prince, returning to St. Petersburg, finds Parfyon. Strange relations develop between these friends-rivals. They even exchange body crosses. Parfyon is sure that Nastasya loves the prince, but considers herself unworthy to become his wife. He also understands that his relationship with this woman will not lead to good, and therefore avoids marriage. However, Parfyon is unable to break out of the vicious circle.
Jealous Rogozhin once attacked Myshkin with a knife on a dark staircase in a hotel. Leo was saved from death only by an attack of epilepsy. Rogozhin, frightened, runs away, and Ivolgin Kolya finds the prince with his head broken on a step and takes him to Pavlovsk, to Lebedev's dacha. The Epanchin and Ivolgin families gather here.
Exposing the scammer
Dostoevsky tells us further about the exposure of the swindler. "Idiot": the summary in parts continues with the fact that a company suddenly appears at the dacha, headed by Ippolit, Lebedev's nephew. Their goal was to get money from the prince for Pavlishchev, the son of his benefactor. Myshkin knows about this story. He asks Ganya to sort things out. The former secretary proved that the person who presented himself as the son of Pavlishchev was not him. This is an orphan, like the prince. Pavlishchev dealt with his fate. Misled by rumors about the prince's large inheritance, he appeared with his friends in order to appeal to Myshkin's conscience. The prince is ready to help him, but his condition is greatly exaggerated by rumor. The young man is confused. He refuses the money offered. Nastasya persuades Aglaya to marry Myshkin, trying to arrange the life of her beloved with a worthy woman.
The third part
Dostoevsky ("The Idiot") divided his work into four parts. We bring to your attention a very brief summary of the third of them.
The gardeners go for a walk. Everyone jokes about the possible wedding of Aglaya with the prince. Nastasya Filippovna is nearby. She again behaves defiantly, insulting Yevgeny Radomsky, Aglaya's boyfriend. A friend-officer stands up for him, but receives from Nastasya a cane in the face. The prince again has to intervene in an unpleasant incident. He hands over Nastasya Filippovna to Rogozhin. Everyone is waiting for the officer to challenge the prince to a duel.
Myshkin's birthday
Guests unexpectedly show up for the birthday, although he did not invite anyone. To everyone's delight, Eugene announces that this incident is hushed up, there will be no duel. Rogozhin is here. The prince assures him that he has forgiven him for the attack on the stairs, and they are brothers again.
Ippolit, Lebedev's nephew, sick with consumption, is also among the guests. He says that he will die soon, but he does not want to wait, so he will shoot himself right now. The patient during the night reads his work justifying suicide. However, Hippolyte's pistol is taken away, which, as it turns out, was not loaded.
Aglaya shows Nastasya Filippovna's letters to Myshkin
Myshkin meets Aglaya in the park. She gives him Nastasya's letters, in which the woman begs her to marry the prince. Aglaya tells him that Nastasya loves him madly and wants the best for him. Nastasya Filippovna even promised to become Rogozhin's wife immediately after the wedding of Myshkin and Aglaya.
Final events of the third part
Lebedev says that he has lost money - 400 rubles. Ferdyshchenko also disappeared from the dacha early in the morning. According to Lebedev's suspicions, it was he who stole the money.
The prince, in frustration, wanders around the park and finds Nastasya Filippovna here. The woman kneels before him, promises to leave, asks for forgiveness. Rogozhin, who appeared suddenly, takes her away, but then returns to ask the prince an important question: is he happy? Lev Nikolaevich admits that he is unhappy.
Fourth part
The final events were described in the fourth part by Fyodor Dostoevsky ("The Idiot"). We will try to convey a brief summary of them without missing anything important.
Ippolit, dying, plagues the Ivolgin family, especially his father, who is becoming more and more entangled in lies. It turns out that the retired general took Lebedev's wallet and then tossed it up as if it had fallen out of his pocket. The old man's fantasies are getting more ridiculous every day. Ivolgin, for example, tells Myshkin that he knew Napoleon personally. The ex-general soon has a stroke, after which he dies.
Failed wedding
Preparations are underway for the wedding of Aglaya and Myshkin at the Yepanchins. A noble society gathers here, the groom is introduced to him. Unexpectedly, Myshkin makes an absurd speech, then breaks an expensive vase, he has a seizure.
The bride visits the prince and asks him to go together to Nastasya Filippovna. Rogozhin is present at their meeting. Aglaya demands from Nastasya that she stop setting her up with Myshkin and torturing everyone. She accuses Barashkova of the fact that she likes to flaunt her "ruined" honor and resentment. A woman would have long ago left Myshkin alone and left if she wished him happiness.
The proud beauty scoffs in response: as soon as she beckons the prince, he will immediately succumb to her charms. Nastasya fulfills her threat, and Lev Nikolaevich is confused. He does not know what to do. Myshkin rushes between two lovers. He rushes after Aglaya. However, Myshkin catches up with Nastasya and falls unconscious into his arms. The prince, immediately forgetting about Aglaya, begins to comfort the woman. Rogozhin, who watched this scene, walks away. The prince is more and more immersed in spiritual confusion.
Nastasya and Myshkin are preparing for the wedding
In the tenth chapter, Dostoevsky ("The Idiot") tells us about the upcoming wedding of Myshkin and Nastasya. A summary of the chapters of this work is already approaching the finale. The wedding of Myshkin and Nastasya is scheduled in 2 weeks. All attempts by the prince to meet with Aglaya in order to explain things to her fail. The Yepanchins are returning to St. Petersburg from Pavlovsk. Yevgeny tries to convince the prince that he acted badly, and Nastasya - even worse. Myshkin admits that he loves both women, each in his own way. He feels love-compassion for Nastasya Filippovna. The bride is very eccentric. She then begins to beat in hysterics, then consoles the prince.
The bride runs away
Rogozhin appears at the wedding ceremony. Nastasya Filippovna rushes to him and asks that this merchant save her. They run to the station. Myshkin, to the surprise of the assembled guests, does not rush after them. He spends this evening calmly and only in the morning begins to look for the fugitives. At first, the prince does not find them anywhere. He wanders the streets of the city for a long time until he accidentally meets Rogozhin. He brings Myshkin to his home, shows Nastasya Filippovna, who was killed by him.
Myshkin goes crazy
Both friends spend the whole night on the floor near Nastasya's body. Myshkin consoles Rogozhin, who is in a nervous fever. But the state of the prince himself is even worse. He becomes an idiot, finally goes crazy. These events are described in chapter 11 by Dostoevsky ("The Idiot"). A summary of the chapters of the novel of interest to us ends with the fact that he is sent to a Swiss clinic. We will learn about this, as well as other final events, in the final, 12th chapter of the novel. Its content is as follows.
Conclusion
Again, Eugene places Myshkin in a Swiss clinic. The forecasts of doctors are disappointing - the prince will not recognize anyone, and his condition is unlikely to improve. Rogozhin is sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. 2 weeks after the death of Nastasya Filippovna, Ippolit dies. Aglaya marries an emigrant from Poland, accepts the Catholic faith and actively participates in the liberation of this country.
This concludes the summary of Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot. Its main events were briefly outlined. You can also get acquainted with the work by numerous adaptations. The brief content of Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot" was the basis of the films and television series of the same name, both domestic and foreign. The very first of the famous film adaptations belongs to the director P. Chardynin. This film was made in 1910.
The great writer, master of psychological drama - F. M. Dostoevsky. "The Idiot", a summary of which we have described, is a recognized masterpiece of world literature. Definitely worth a read.
The action of the novel takes place in St. Petersburg and Pavlovsk in late 1867 - early 1868.
Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin arrives in St. Petersburg from Switzerland. He is twenty-six years old, he is the last of a noble noble family, orphaned early, fell ill with a serious nervous illness as a child and was placed by his guardian and benefactor Pavlishchev in a Swiss sanatorium. He lived there for four years and is now returning to Russia with vague but big plans to serve her. On the train, the prince meets Parfyon Rogozhin, the son of a wealthy merchant, who inherited a huge fortune after his death. From him, the prince for the first time hears the name of Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, the mistress of a certain wealthy aristocrat Totsky, whom Rogozhin is passionately infatuated with.
Upon arrival, the prince with his modest bundle goes to the house of General Yepanchin, whose wife, Elizabeth Prokofievna, is a distant relative. There are three daughters in the Epanchin family - the eldest Alexandra, the middle Adelaide and the youngest, the common favorite and beautiful Aglaya. The prince amazes everyone with his spontaneity, gullibility, frankness and naivety, so extraordinary that at first he is received very wary, but with increasing curiosity and sympathy. It turns out that the prince, who seemed to be a simpleton, and to some 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. Here the prince also meets the extremely proud secretary of the general Ganya Ivolgin, in whom he sees a portrait of Nastasya Filippovna. Her face of dazzling beauty, proud, full of contempt and hidden suffering, strikes him to the core.
The prince also learns some details: the seducer of Nastasya Filippovna Totsky, trying to get rid of her and hatching plans to marry one of the daughters of the Epanchins, woo her to Ganya Ivolgin, giving seventy-five thousand as a dowry. Ganya is beckoned by money. With their help, he dreams of breaking out into the people and in the future significantly increasing his capital, but at the same time he is haunted by the humiliation of the situation. He would prefer marriage to Aglaya Yepanchina, with whom, perhaps, he is even a little in love (although here, too, the possibility of enrichment awaits him). He expects a decisive word from her, making his further actions dependent on this. 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. The prince does not have time to take the room provided to him and get 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 gentleman of incomprehensible occupations Ferdyshchenko, as two unexpected events occur. None other than Nastasya Filippovna suddenly appears in the house, who has come to invite Ganya and his relatives to her for the evening. She 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. Something like bargaining takes place, as if with her mockingly contemptuous participation: is it her, Nastasya Filippovna, for eighteen thousand? Rogozhin is not going to retreat: no, not eighteen - forty. No, not forty - a hundred thousand! ..
For Ganya's sister and mother, what is happening is unbearably insulting: Nastasya Filippovna is a corrupt woman who should not be allowed into a decent house. For Ghani, she is the hope for enrichment. A scandal breaks out: Ganya's indignant sister Varvara Ardalionovna spits in his face, he is going to hit her, but the prince unexpectedly stands up for her and receives a slap from the enraged Ganya, "Oh, how you will be ashamed of your act!" - in this phrase, the whole of Prince Myshkin, all his incomparable meekness. Even at this moment he sympathizes with another, even the offender. His next word, addressed to Nastasya Filippovna: “Are you the way you now seemed to be,” will become the key to the soul of a proud woman, deeply suffering from her shame and falling in love with the prince for recognizing her purity.
Conquered by the beauty of Nastasya Filippovna, the prince comes to her in the evening. A motley society gathered here, starting with General Yepanchin, who was also carried away by the heroine, to the jester Ferdyshchenko. To the sudden question of Nastasya Filippovna, whether she should marry Ganya, he answers in the negative and thereby destroys the plans of Totsky, who is present here. At half past eleven the bell rings and the old company appears, headed by Rogozhin, who spreads one hundred thousand wrapped in newspaper in front of his chosen one.
And again, the prince is in the center, who is painfully hurt by what is happening, he confesses his love for Nastasya Filippovna and expresses his readiness to take her, “honest”, and not “Rogozhin”, as his wife. Immediately, it suddenly turns out that the prince received a rather solid inheritance from the deceased aunt. However, the decision was made - Nastasya Filippovna rides with Rogozhin, and throws the fatal bundle with a hundred thousand into a burning fireplace and invites Ghana to get them out of there. Ganya is holding back with all his strength so as not to rush after the flashed money, he wants to leave, but falls unconscious. Nastasya Filippovna herself snatches out a packet with fireplace tongs and leaves the money to Ghana as a reward for his torment (later they will be proudly returned to them).
Six months pass. The prince, having traveled around Russia, in particular on inheritance matters, and simply out of interest in the country, comes from Moscow to St. Petersburg. During this time, according to rumors, Nastasya Filippovna fled several times, almost from the crown, from Rogozhin to the prince, stayed with him for some time, but then ran away from the prince.
At the station, the prince feels someone's fiery gaze on him, which torments him with a vague foreboding. The prince pays a visit to Rogozhin in his dirty green, gloomy, like a prison, house on Gorokhovaya Street, during their conversation, the prince is haunted by a garden knife lying on the table, he keeps picking it up, until Rogozhin finally, in irritation, takes it away he has it (later Nastasya Filippovna will be killed with this knife). In the house of Rogozhin, the prince sees on the wall a copy of the painting by Hans Holbein, which depicts the Savior, just taken down from the cross. Rogozhin says that he loves to look at her, the prince exclaims in amazement that "... from this picture, another may still lose faith," and Rogozhin unexpectedly confirms this. They exchange crosses, Parfyon leads the prince to his mother for a blessing, since they are now like brothers.
Returning to his hotel, the prince suddenly notices a familiar figure at the gate and rushes after her to the dark narrow stairs. 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.
Three days after the seizure, the prince moves to Lebedev's dacha in Pavlovsk, where the Yepanchin family and, according to rumors, Nastasya Filippovna are also located. On the same evening, a large company of acquaintances gathers with him, including the Yepanchins, who decided to visit the sick prince. Kolya Ivolgin, Ganya's brother, teases Aglaya as a "poor knight", clearly alluding to her sympathy for the prince and arousing the painful 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, having believed in him, to give his life for this ideal, and then with inspiration he reads Pushkin's poem itself.
A little later, a company of young people appears, led by a certain young man Burdovsky, allegedly "the son of Pavlishchev." They seem to be nihilists, but only, in the words of Lebedev, "let's go further, sir, because first of all they are businesslike." A libel is read from a newspaper about the prince, and then they demand from him that he, as a noble and honest man, reward 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 retreats in embarrassment, only one of them remains in the center of attention - the consumptive Ippolit Terentyev, who, asserting himself, begins to "orate". He wants to be pitied and praised, but he is ashamed of his openness, his inspiration is replaced by rage, especially against the prince. Myshkin, on the other hand, listens attentively to everyone, pities everyone, and feels guilty before everyone.
A few days later, the prince visits the Yepanchins, then the entire Yepanchin family, together with Prince Yevgeny Pavlovich Radomsky, who is caring for Aglaya, and Prince Sh., Adelaide's fiancé, go for a walk. Another company appears at the station not far from them, among which is Nastasya Filippovna. She familiarly addresses Radomsky, informing him of the suicide of his uncle, who has squandered a large state sum. Everyone is outraged by the provocation. The officer, a friend of Radomsky, remarks indignantly that “you just need a whip here, otherwise you won’t take anything with this creature!” The officer is about to hit Nastasya Filippovna, but Prince Myshkin holds him back.
At the celebration of Prince's birthday, Ippolit Terentyev reads "My Necessary Explanation" written by him - a confession of a young man who almost did not live, but changed his mind a lot, doomed by illness to an untimely death. After reading, he attempts suicide, but the primer is missing from the gun. The prince defends Ippolit, who is painfully afraid of seeming ridiculous, from attacks and ridicule.
In the morning, on a date in the park, Aglaya invites the prince to become her friend. The prince feels that he truly loves her. A little later, in the same park, the prince meets Nastasya Filippovna, who kneels before him and asks him if he is happy with Aglaya, and then disappears with Rogozhin. It is known that she writes letters to Aglaya, where she persuades her to marry the prince.
A week later, the prince was formally declared Aglaya's fiancé. High-ranking guests were invited to the Yepanchins for a kind of “bride-in-law” of the prince. Although Aglaya believes that the prince is incomparably higher than all of them, the hero, precisely because of her partiality and intolerance, is 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, making a painful and awkward impression on those present.
Aglaya makes an appointment with Nastasya Filippovna in Pavlovsk, to which she comes with the prince. Apart from them, only Rogozhin is present. The “proud young lady” sternly and hostilely asks what right Nastasya Filippovna has to write letters to her and generally interfere in her and the prince’s personal life. Offended by the tone and attitude of her rival, Nastasya Filippovna, in a fit of revenge, calls on the prince to stay with her and drives Rogozhin away. The prince is torn between two women. He loves Aglaya, but he also loves Nastasya Filippovna - with love and pity. He calls her crazy, but is unable to leave her. The prince's condition is getting worse, he is more and more immersed in mental confusion.
The wedding of the prince and Nastasya Filippovna is planned. This event is overgrown with all sorts of rumors, but Nastasya Filippovna seems to be joyfully preparing for it, writing out outfits and being either in inspiration or in unreasonable sadness. On the day of the wedding, on the way to the church, she suddenly rushes to Rogozhin, who is standing in the crowd, who picks her up in his arms, gets into the carriage and takes her away.
The next morning after her escape, the prince arrives in Petersburg and immediately goes to Rogozhin. Togo is not at home, but it seems to the prince that Rogozhin seems to be looking at him from behind the curtains. The prince walks around Nastasya Filippovna's acquaintances, trying to find out something about her, returns several times to Rogozhin's house, but to no avail: that is not there, no one knows anything. All day the prince wanders around the sultry city, believing that Parfyon will certainly appear. And so it happens: Rogozhin meets him on the street and asks him in a whisper to follow him. In the house, he leads the prince to a room where, in an alcove on a bed under a white sheet, furnished with bottles of Zhdanov's liquid so that the smell of decay is not felt, the dead Nastasya Filippovna lies.
The prince and Rogozhin spend a sleepless night together over the corpse, and when the door is opened the next day in the presence of the police, they find Rogozhin rushing about in delirium and the prince calming him, who no longer understands anything and does not recognize anyone. Events completely destroy Myshkin's psyche and finally turn him into an idiot.
At the end of 1867, the young gentleman Myshkin Lev Nikolayevich moved from Switzerland to St. Petersburg. A young man of twenty-six is the last of the rich nobility. Due to a complex nervous illness suffered in childhood, the prince lived for several years in a Swiss sanatorium. On the trip, Lev meets Rogozhin, a rich merchant's son. Parfyon tells the prince about his beloved, Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, who is being kept by Totsky.
Lev Nikolaevich arrives to visit his distant relatives, the Yepanchins. There are three daughters in the Yepanchin family - Aglaya, Adelaide and Alexandra. Myshkin surprises everyone with his openness, naivete and childish spontaneity. At the same time, the young man communicates with the general's assistant Ganya Ivolgin. At the secretary, the prince first notices a portrait of young Nastasya Filippovna, an unusually beautiful and proud woman.
Some details become known to Prince Myshkin: Totsky intends to get rid of Barashkova and marry her to Ivolgin, and he himself is going to marry the young daughter of General Yepanchin. For Nastasya, Totsky is ready to give seventy-five thousand as a dowry. Secretary Ivolgin passionately dreams of getting rich at any cost, although he would like to marry another wealthy lady - the general's youngest daughter Aglaya. Lev Nikolaevich becomes a close friend of Aglaya and acts as an intermediary between her and Ganya.
The young prince moves to live in the estate with the Ivolgins. Myshkin does not have time to get acquainted with all the household members and settle down in the premises provided to him - two interesting events occur. Nastasya Filippovna visits the Ivolgins' apartment and invites Ganya and his beloved relatives to visit her. The woman jokes and laughs, listens to Ivolgin's funny stories. Then Rogozhin and his noisy big company visit. Parfyon throws eighteen thousand in front of Barashkova. Then the heroes begin to "bargain", as a result, the price for Nastasya rises to one hundred thousand.
For Ganya's relatives, the current event is extremely insulting. Barashkova is a dissolute lady who has no place at all in such a decent society. The scandal does not keep itself waiting: sister Varvara spits in Ganya's eyes, he swings, but does not have time to hit. Lev Nikolaevich stands up for the woman, receiving a blow on the cheek from the enraged Ivolgin. Then the prince says to Nastasya: “Are you the way you now seemed to be.” This phrase will be remembered for a long time by Barashkova, who suffered a lot and was worried about her difficult position in society.
On the same warm evening, Myshkin visits the estate of Nastasya Filippovna. Full of guests, from Totsky, General Yepanchin to the ever-laughing Ferdyshchenko. Unexpectedly, the heroine consults with a new guest and asks if she should marry Ivolgin. Lev Nikolaevich replies that no. At twelve o'clock in the morning, Parfyon appears with his fellow friends and takes out a hundred thousand in front of Nastasya, packed in a newspaper.
The prince is very worried about what is happening and confesses his feelings to Barashkova, offering her to get married. Suddenly it becomes known that Myshkin has a rich inheritance, inherited from a relative. But the heroine decides to leave with Rogozhin. She grabs the money and throws it into the fireplace, offering Ghana to take it. Ivolgin falls unconscious, and Nastasya herself pulls out the flaming money and gives it to Ghana as a token of some kind of compensation for his "suffering".
Six months have passed. After traveling around the country, Myshkin returns to St. Petersburg. Strange rumors circulate in secular circles that Barashkova more than once hastily ran away from Rogozhin to Lev Nikolaevich, lived with him, but subsequently left the young prince.
At the station square, it seems to Myshkin that someone is closely following him. Lev comes to visit Rogozhin. During this conversation, the prince plays with a garden knife until the owner of the house angrily takes it from the hands of the guest. The speech of acquaintances comes about faith and a hanging copy of the picture, which depicts the Savior. The interlocutors exchange crosses, Rogozhin takes Leo to his mother to ask for blessings, for now they are like brothers.
Going to the guest house, Myshkin sees a familiar large figure and follows him. Rogozhin's sparkling gaze, like at a railway station, a raised knife ... The prince falls in a fit of epilepsy. The parfion is hidden in the darkness.
A few days later, Lev Nikolaevich arrives at Lebedev's dacha, where the Yepanchins and, as they say, Nastasya are resting. A sick prince gathers a lot of people to visit. Myshkin listens attentively to everyone, regrets for some reason and feels guilty before all those gathered.
Soon the prince visits the Yepanchins, goes for a walk with the suitors of the general's daughters. On the way they meet Nastasya Filippovna in the company of friends. The girl tactlessly tells Prince Radomsky about his deceased relative, who spent state money.
Those present are indignant at this trick. A friend of Radomsky insults Barashkova, in response to this she cuts his head into blood, snatching a cane from those standing nearby. The enraged young man wants to hit Nastasya with a whip, but the prince does not allow this to be done.
Three days later, in the park, Myshkin meets Aglaya. She asks to become her close friend, the young man realizes that he is in love. Further in the same square, the prince sees Barashkova. Kneeling, the girl wonders how happy he is with the general's daughter. Later, Nastasya Filippovna writes long letters to the prince's chosen one, persuading her to marry him.
The Yepanchins announce Myshkin as the fiancé of their youngest daughter. The general gathers rich and distinguished guests to get acquainted with the future family member. The prince tries to please everyone so as not to upset the bride, leads an interesting conversation, but eventually falls in a fit of epilepsy.
Aglaya, along with her fiancé, meets with Barashkova and Rogozhin. An unpleasant conversation arises between the ladies, during which Yepanchina asks not to get into her life and the life of her future spouse anymore, to stop writing letters of incomprehensible content. Annoyed by this attitude, Nastasya calls out to Myshkin and offers to be with her, while Rogozhina drives away. The hero does not know what to do, because he sincerely loves both women. Nastasya Filippovna cannot refuse, the state of mind of the young man is getting worse ..
Soon the wedding of the young master and Nastasya Filippovna should take place. This news spreads throughout the neighborhood, acquiring various gossip and conjectures. On the day of the wedding, Barashkova unexpectedly runs out to Parfyon, who is standing among other people. Rogozhin takes the girl in his arms, jumps into a nearby carriage and quickly leaves.
The next day, Lev visits Rogozhin, but does not find him at home. At the end of the day, on the street, Parfen calls Myshkin and leads him home. In the room, he points to the bed where Nastasya's dead body lies, lined with jars of Zhdanov's mixture so that the smell of decomposition cannot be smelled.
Lev Nikolaevich, together with Rogozhin, spend the whole night over the dead. When the police open the door the next day, Parfyon and Myshkin, running around in delirium, appear before her, trying to calm him down. The prince already ceases to recognize people and loses his mind, as what happened greatly injures his psyche.
Chapter VI. The prince tells another touching story about the poor and sick Swiss girl Marie. Seduced by a traveling salesman, she was rejected by all her countrymen for this sin, but under the influence of the prince, the village children began to take care of the unfortunate woman, and she died surrounded by kindness and care.
The prince makes a strong impression on the general's wife and her daughters, they all like him very much.
Dostoevsky. Moron. 2nd episode of the TV series
Chapter VII. Seeing that the prince has gained the confidence of the Epanchin ladies, Ganya Ivolgin furtively passes a note through him to the youngest of the three sisters, Aglaya. The shame of marriage with the dishonored Nastasya Filippovna still torments Ganya, and he tries to find himself another rich bride. Once Aglaya showed compassion for him, and Ganya now writes to her in a note that he is ready, for the mere hope of mutual love, to break with Nastasya Filippovna. Aglaya immediately notes with contempt that Ganya does not want to part with 75 thousand without receiving guarantees of such hope. She shows the note to the prince, and Ghana gives an arrogant answer: "I do not enter into bidding."
Annoyed, Ganya is imbued with hostility towards the prince, who has learned many of his secrets. Meanwhile, the prince, on the recommendation of the general, goes to rent a room, which Ganya rents out in his apartment.
Chapter VIII. At Ganya's apartment, the prince sees his relatives. Ganya's energetic sister, Varya, having learned that today the issue of her brother's marriage to the "camellia" will be finally resolved, rolls up a stormy scene for Ganya. The prince at this time hears the sound of a doorbell. He opens it - and with amazement sees Nastasya Filippovna in front of him. Hiding obvious excitement under the mask of feigned arrogance, she goes to "get acquainted with the family" of her fiancé.
Chapter IX. The unexpected appearance of Nastasya Filippovna stuns everyone in the house. Gani's relatives are lost. Ganya's drunken father, the well-known liar and dreamer General Ivolgin, tells Nastasya Filippovna a fictitious story about how he allegedly once in a train carriage threw a lap dog that belonged to two ladies out of the window. Nastasya Filippovna, laughing, catches the general in a lie: this case was abroad, it was published in the Indépendance Belge newspaper. Gani's relatives are outraged that the "camellia" openly laughs at their father. A sharp scene is brewing, but it is interrupted by another strong blow of the bell.
Chapter X A drunken company led by Parfyon Rogozhin tumbles through the door: having learned that they want to marry Nastasya Filippovna to Ghana, he came to offer this “scoundrel and cheater” to give up on her for three thousand.
Irritated Ganya tries to drive Rogozhin, but he then offers not three thousand, but 18. Nastasya Filippovna, laughing, shouts: “Not enough!” Rogozhin raises the price to 40 thousand, then to 100.
Indignant at this humiliating bargain, Varya asks someone to get "this shameless one" out of here. Ganya rushes at her sister. The prince grabs him by the hands, and Ganya, in a frenzy, slaps him in the face. The meek prince only says in great excitement that Ganya will be ashamed of his act, and then turns to Nastasya Filippovna: “Aren't you ashamed? Are you what you now imagined?
Shocked by the insight of the prince who guessed it, she suddenly stops laughing. The haughty mask falls from her. After kissing the hand of Ghana's mother, Nastasya Filippovna hurriedly leaves. Rogozhin also takes his company away, discussing along the way where you can quickly get 100 thousand in cash at any interest.
Chapter XI. Ganya comes to the prince's room to apologize for the slap in the face. The prince hugs him, but convinces him to leave the idea of marrying Nastasya Filippovna: this is not worth 75 thousand. But Ganya insists: I will definitely marry! He dreams not just to get rich, but to turn these 75 thousand into a huge fortune, to become the "King of the Jews."
After Ganya leaves, his younger brother Kolya brings a note to the prince from General Ivolgin with an invitation to a nearby cafe.
Dostoevsky. Moron. 3rd episode of the TV series
Chapter XII. Drunk Ivolgin asks the prince for a loan in a cafe. Myshkin gives him his last money, but asks the general to help him get to Nastasya Filippovna tonight. Ivolgin undertakes to take the prince to her, but brings his mistress, captain Terentyeva, to the apartment, where he collapses on the sofa and falls asleep.
Fortunately, the kind Kolya turns up right there, who came to his friend, the sick son of Terentyeva Ippolit. Kolya knows the address of Nastasya Filippovna and brings the prince to her house.
Chapter XIII. The prince himself does not really understand why he is going to Nastasya Filippovna. Totsky, General Yepanchin, gloomy Ganya and several other guests are already sitting at that birthday party. Although the prince is uninvited, Nastasya Filippovna, who is very interested in him at Ganya's apartment, herself happily goes out to meet him.
One of the guests, impudent Ferdyshchenko, offers a "game": "let each of us tell aloud what he himself considers his worst act in life."
Chapter XIV. Some of those present agree to this. At first, Ferdyshchenko himself describes how once, without knowing why, he stole three rubles at the dacha from an acquaintance. Behind him, General Yepanchin recalls the case when, as a young ensign, he scolded a poor, lonely old widow because of a missing bowl, who in response only silently looked at him - and, as it turned out later, was dying at that moment. Then Totsky tells how, in his youth, by an accidental whim, he broke the love of one of his friends, and because of this, he left to seek death in the war.
When Totsky finishes, Nastasya Filippovna suddenly turns to the prince with the question: should she marry Gavrila Ardalionovich? "No... don't come out!" The prince answers quietly. “That will be my answer to you, Ganya,” Nastasya Filippovna announces. “I believed in the prince as in the first, in my whole life, truly devoted person, because he believed in me at one glance.”
Nastasya Filippovna says that she will not take 75 thousand from Totsky and tomorrow she will move out of the apartment he rented. Her words are interrupted by the ringing of the door bell.
Chapter XV. The Rogozhin company bursts into the apartment. He himself walks ahead with a hundred thousand wrapped in a dirty newspaper. The low toady Lebedev is also sneaking after Rogozhin.
“Here, gentlemen,” says Nastasya Filippovna. - Rogozhin bought me for a hundred thousand, and you, Ganya, even though this trade was going on in your house, with your mother and sister, after all, after that you came to woo! Than to live with you or Totsky - yes, it’s better to go out into the street, with Rogozhin! Give all the money to Totsky, and without money, Ganya won’t take me either!
"The prince will take!" - inserts malicious Ferdyshchenko. "Truth?" - Nastasya Filippovna turns to the prince. “True,” he confirms. - And I'm not taking you low, but honest, Nastasya Filippovna. I am nothing, but you suffered... You are throwing seventy-five thousand back to Totsky... Nobody here will do that. But you and I, perhaps, will not be poor, but rich: I received a letter from Moscow in Switzerland that I should have a large inheritance from a deceased relative, a wealthy merchant.
Chapter XVI. Guests freeze in surprise. “Aren’t you ashamed, prince, then it will be that your bride lived with Totsky as a kept woman?” asks Nastasya Filippovna. “You are proud, Nastasya Filippovna,” Myshkin replies, “and you consider yourself guilty in vain. And to me, when I saw your portrait just now, it immediately seemed that you seemed to have already called me ... "
“I, prince, have long dreamed of such as you! she exclaims. But can I kill you? We're going with you, Rogozhin! You, prince, need Aglaya Yepanchin, and not such a dishonest one as me!
"Ganka! - shouts Nastasya Filippovna, snatching a pack from Rogozhin. - I took these hundred thousand overnight and now I will throw them into the fireplace! If you pull a pack out of the fire with your bare hands, it's all yours!"
She throws the pack into the fire. Ganya, looking at her with an insane smile, faints. Nastasya Filippovna snatches a pack from the fire with tongs: “The whole pack is to Hana! Didn't go, survived! It means that there is more pride than the thirst for money.
She leaves in a troika with Rogozhin. In another cab, the prince rushes after them.
Dostoevsky "Idiot", part 2 - summary
Chapter I Six months have passed since the memorable birthday of Nastasya Filippovna. The Yepanchin family learned that after an orgy with Rogozhin that night at the Ekateringof railway station, she immediately disappeared. It soon became clear: she was in Moscow, and Rogozhin and the prince immediately left there, one after another; however, the prince in Moscow also had a matter of inheritance. Ganya the next morning after that orgy brought a pack of 100 thousand to the prince who returned to his apartment. He left the secretarial service with General Yepanchin.
Rogozhin found Nastasya Filippovna in Moscow, but there she ran away from him twice more, and for the last time Prince Myshkin disappeared from the city with her. The inheritance he received was not as large as expected, and he also distributed a large part of it to various dubious applicants.
Generalsha Lizaveta Prokofievna and her daughters are very interested in the fate of the prince. The project of Totsky's marriage to the eldest of the three Epanchin sisters, Alexandra, meanwhile is frustrated. But things are moving towards the imminent wedding of Adelaide with a young handsome and rich man, Prince Shch. Friend Shch., Yevgeny Pavlovich Radomsky, a secular wit and heartthrob, begins to court Aglaya.
Varya Ivolgina, after her brother lost his job, married the usurer Ptitsyn and moved in with him with all her relatives. Varya and her younger brother Kolya become closer to the Yepanchin family.
Before Easter, Kolya unexpectedly gives Aglaya a strange letter from Prince Myshkin: “I need you, I really need you. I sincerely wish you happiness and want to ask if you are happy? Aglaya is very happy about this letter.
Chapter II. Exactly six months after the birthday of Nastasya Filippovna, Prince Myshkin again comes to St. Petersburg, having received a letter from Lebedev before that. He reports in it that Nastasya Filippovna returned to Petersburg, and here Rogozhin again found her. Stepping off the train, the prince in the station crowd suddenly feels the hot and unpleasant look of two someone's eyes on him.
The prince visits Lebedev, who tells that Rogozhin is once again urging Nastasya Filippovna to marry him. Already knowing the gloomy, jealous nature of Parfion, she is horrified by such a prospect, but Rogozhin is very persistent. “And from you, prince,” Lebedev adds, “she wants to hide even more, and here is wisdom!”
Chapter III. From Lebedev, the prince goes to the gloomy, dirty-green house of Rogozhin. Parfyon meets him without much joy. The prince accidentally notices: Rogozhin has the same look that he caught on himself at the station.
The prince assures Rogozhin: “I will not interfere with your marriage to Nastasya Filippovna, although I feel that after you she will inevitably die, and you too. And I myself do not love her with love, but with pity. From the appearance and voice of Prince Parfion softens a little. He tells how Nastasya Filippovna tried to break up with him in Moscow, how he beat her, and then, asking for forgiveness, “didn’t sleep for a day and a half, didn’t eat, didn’t drink, got on his knees in front of her.” She either scolded him, then wanted to kill him, and when she went to bed, she did not lock the room behind her: “I’m not afraid of you!” But, seeing his despair, she nevertheless promised to marry: “I will marry you, Parfen Semenovich: I’ll die anyway.” However, then she ran away again, and the one found here, in St. Petersburg, so far does not bode anything about the wedding. “You, says Parfen Semyonitch, have strong passions and a great mind. Without love for me, you would sit down, like a father, to save money and, perhaps, you would save up not two million, but ten, and you would die of hunger on your bags, because you have passion in everything, you bring everything to passion.
The prince is shocked: “Why is she going under the knife herself, marrying you?” “Yes, that’s why he’s coming for me, because a knife is waiting for me! She loves you, not me, understand! She only thinks that it is impossible for her to marry you, because by doing so she will disgrace and destroy you. “I, he says, know what kind.” That's why she ran away from you then ... "
The prince, listening in agitation, absently takes the knife lying on the table by the book. Rogozhin immediately nervously snatches it from Myshkin's hands...
Chapter IV. Rogozhin sees off the departing prince. In the corridor they pass by a picture - a copy of Holbein's "Dead Christ", where the Savior is depicted in a coffin beaten and blackened, like an ordinary mortal person. Stopping, Rogozhin asks the prince if he believes in God: “I like to look at this picture.” “Yes, from this picture, faith can be lost!” Myshkin exclaims. “Even that disappears,” Parfion confirms.
Dead Christ. Artist Holbein Jr.
The prince tells him how, having recently stayed at a hotel, he learned that the night before, a peasant with the prayer “Lord, forgive me!” stabbed another for a silver watch. Then the prince heard from a simple woman he happened to meet a comparison of God's joy over a repentant sinner with the joy of a mother who noticed the first smile from her baby. Myshkin marveled at the depth of this thought, which "expressed at once the whole essence of Christianity."
Parfyon suddenly offers the prince to exchange crosses - to fraternize. Pulls him to the other half of the house, to his demented old mother. She baptizes Myshkin. But at parting, the prince sees that Rogozhin can hardly force himself to hug him. “So take it, if fate! Yours! I yield! .. Remember Rogozhin! he says to Myshkin in a trembling voice and quickly leaves.
Chapter V The prince is going to go to the dachas in Pavlovsk, but, having already got into the car, he suddenly comes back. Before landing at the station, he again imagined Rogozhin's eyes in the crowd. Perhaps he is watching: will the prince go to Nastasya Filippovna? What for? What does he want to do in this case? .. In the window of the station shop, the prince suddenly sees the same knife as on the table at Rogozhin ...
It's stuffy outside. The emotional heaviness that seized the prince resembles the approach of an epileptic seizure, which happened to him before. Myshkin drives away the thought that Rogozhin is able to encroach on his life. But his legs themselves carry him to the house where Nastasya Filippovna has settled. The prince knows this address from Lebedev and is tormented by the desire to see if Rogozhin will follow him. Having reached the house and turning around from the door, he sees Parfyon standing across the crossroads.
None of them match. The prince goes to his hotel. At the gate, he notices a man flashing in front of him, and when he goes up the stairs, Rogozhin with a knife rushes at him from a dark corner. Only a sudden seizure saves the prince from the blow: from it he suddenly falls with a terrible cry, and Rogozhin, confused, runs away.
Kolya Ivolgin, who was waiting for him at the hotel, finds the prince and transports him to Lebedev's dacha in Pavlovsk: Myshkin had agreed to take it off even earlier.
Chapter VI. The prince quickly recovers from a seizure at the dacha. Friends and acquaintances visit him here, soon the Yepanchin family also visits. In a playful conversation, Adelaide and Kolya accidentally mention the "poor knight", which is better than anyone in the world. The beautiful Aglaya is at first embarrassed by these words, and then explains to her mother: she and her sisters recently recalled Pushkin's poem about this knight. Having set himself an ideal "image of pure beauty", the knight believed him and gave him his whole life. Declaring: “I love the poor knight and respect his exploits!”, Aglaya goes to the middle of the terrace and stands right in front of the prince to read this poem.
Chapter VII. She recites it with great feeling, but replaces the letters of the inscription on the shield of the knight A. M. D. (Glory to the Mother of God!) with N. F. B.(Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova) . The prince wonders what Aglaya wants to express: a mockery of him or a true feeling of delight. Yevgeny Pavlovich Radomsky, who just entered with a sarcastic air, seems to be inclined towards the first explanation.
Lebedev's daughter, Vera, informs the prince that four young men are rushing towards him. One of them calls himself "the son of Pavlishchev", the deceased guardian of the prince, who treated him in Switzerland at his own expense. Myshkin had already heard about this murky case, which tarnished his reputation. The Yepanchins also heard about him. Aglaya, with burning eyes, advises the prince to immediately and decisively explain himself to those who have come. Lebedev explains: these are extreme nihilists.
The prince asks to let them in. Enter "Pavlishchev's son" (Antip Burdovsky), Lebedev's nephew (Doktorenko), retired lieutenant-boxer Keller from the former drunken Rogozhin company and the son of captain Terentyeva Ippolit, a young man in the last stages of consumption.
Chapter VIII. Nihilists try to be cheeky and arrogant. Lebedev brings a "progressive" newspaper with an article about the prince, which they published. Kolya reads the article aloud.
The prince is ridiculed there as an idiot who, by a play of fate, received a large inheritance. Then it is told that the "voluptuous serf-owner" Pavlishchev allegedly seduced in his youth a peasant girl - Burdovsky's mother, and now the prince "not by law, but by justice" should have given Burdovsky ("Pavlishchev's son") "tens of thousands", which Pavlishchev spent on his treatment in Switzerland. The article ends with a vile, illiterate epigram verse about the prince.
The prince's friends are stunned by the nasty tone of the article: "It was as if fifty footmen were composing together." But Myshkin himself announces that he has decided to give Burdovsky 10,000 rubles. He explains: the whole case, apparently, was started by the fraudulent lawyer Chebarov, and Burdovsky, most likely, sincerely believes that he is "Pavlishchev's son." The prince asks that Ganya Ivolgin, who is present here, who has already dealt with it at his request, tell in more detail about the case.
Chapter IX. Ganya says: Pavlishchev once had a pure feeling for Burdovsky's mother's sister, a peasant girl. When she died young, he set aside a large dowry for her sister, helped her a lot even after marriage and the birth of a son. From this, indeed, rumors arose about his connection with this sister, but it is easy to prove that they are lies. Burdovsky's mother is now in great need, and the prince recently supported her with money.
Hearing all this, Burdovsky shouts that he renounces his claims. Lizaveta Prokofievna Yepanchina scolds the nihilists in indignation. “Crazy! Yes, out of vanity and pride, and then you will eat each other. She is also indignant at the prince: “Are you still asking for forgiveness from them?” However, the general's wife softens when Ippolit Terentyev begins to cough violently, with blood, and explains that he has only two weeks left to live.
Chapterx. The Prince and Lizaveta Prokofievna treat Ippolit to tea. Yevgeny Pavlovich looks at this scene with a mockery. “Why, it is easy to jump straight from your theories to the right of force and even murder,” he remarks to Hippolyta. "So what?" he casually throws. “Yes, according to my observations, our liberal is never able to allow someone to have his own special conviction and not immediately answer his opponent with a curse or something worse,” replies Yevgeny Pavlovich.
Hippolyte says goodbye, saying that he is going home to die: “Nature is very mocking ... She creates the best creatures in order to mock them later.” He begins to sob, however, immediately embarrassed by his weakness, lashes out at the prince: “I hate you, Jesuit, molasses soul, idiot, millionaire benefactor!”
The nihilists are leaving. Dissatisfied with the excessive kindness of Prince Yepanchins, they leave the terrace - and then suddenly a shiny carriage with two ladies appears.
One of them is Nastasya Filippovna. She shouts to Yevgeny Pavlovich about some of his debts and bills, which, at her request, were bought by Rogozhin and will now wait with recovery. Radomsky is shocked by the publicity of information that is unpleasant for him. The stroller is leaving. Prince Myshkin, having heard the voice of a woman fatal to him, is close to fainting.
ChapterXI. The prince and the Yepanchins puzzle over the purpose of Nastasya Filippovna's mysterious act. Ganya confirms the rumor that Radomsky has large debts. It gradually becomes clear that Nastasya Filippovna, apparently, tried to upset Radomsky's engagement with Aglaya, exposing him of unseemly deeds.
After the appearance of Nastasya Filippovna, a heavy feeling seizes the prince: fate irresistibly draws him into something terrible.
ChapterXII. Three days after the quarrel with the prince because of Ippolit, Lizaveta Prokofievna runs in to him and demands frank explanations: does he love Aglaya and is he not married to Nastasya Filippovna, as there are rumors about this?
The prince replies that he is not married to Nastasya Filippovna, and only shows Lizaveta Prokofievna that he received a note from Aglaya, where she in an impudent tone forbids him to visit their family. Lizaveta Prokofievna grabs the prince by the hand and drags him to her dacha. "Innocent dupe! This is her with a fever. It was annoying that you weren’t going, just didn’t calculate that you couldn’t write to an idiot like that, because he would literally accept ... "
Dostoevsky "Idiot", part 3 - summary
Chapter I The prince at the Epanchins' dacha listens to Yevgeny Pavlovich's speech: Russian liberals have so far been only from two layers: the landowners and the seminary. But both of these estates have long since separated from the rest of the nation. Therefore, our liberals also have completely non-national views, they attack not the order of things, but Russia itself, being, without noticing it, stupid conservatives.
The prince agrees to this. He also agrees that the current theories of the nihilists that a person is poor naturally the thought may arise of resorting to even murder to improve one's situation - a very dangerous phenomenon. “But how did you not notice exactly the same perversion of ideas in the Burdovsky case?” Radomsky asks. Lizaveta Prokofievna, in response, says that the prince received a letter from Burdovsky with repentance - “but we did not receive such a letter, and it’s not for us to turn up our noses in front of him.” Ippolit also repented before the prince.
Lizaveta Prokofievna calls the whole family to music at the station.
Chapter II. Out of the kindness of his soul, the prince not only does not hold a grudge against Radomsky, who ridiculed him, but also apologizes to him. Aglaya, hearing this, exclaims: “You are more honest, nobler, kinder and smarter than everyone! Why do you put yourself below them? Then he screams in hysterics: “Everyone teases me that I will marry you!” This too frank scene of Aglaya's expression of her feelings for the prince can only be smoothed out by general laughter.
Everyone goes to the music. On the way, Aglaya slowly points the prince to a green bench in the park: “I like to sit here in the morning.” At the orchestra, the prince sits absent-mindedly next to Aglaya. Nastasya Filippovna suddenly appears, accompanied by a company of persons of dubious appearance. Passing by the Yepanchins, she suddenly speaks loudly to Radomsky, reporting the suicide of his uncle, who turned out to be a major embezzler. “And you retired in advance, sly!”
Lizaveta Prokofievna immediately takes her family away from the scandal. "This thing needs a whip!" - meanwhile exclaims about Nastasya Filippovna one officer, a friend of Yevgeny Pavlovich. She, having heard these words, whips him in the face with a thin cane. The officer rushes at her, but the prince holds him by the hands. Nastasya Filippovna is led away by Rogozhin, who appears from nowhere.
Chapter III. The prince follows the Yepanchins and, thoughtfully, sits alone on the terrace of their dacha. As if by chance, Aglaya comes out to him. She first starts an extraneous conversation with him, and then puts a note in her hands.
The prince leaves the dacha with General Yepanchin. On the way, he says: Aglaya has just told everyone: Nastasya Filippovna "took it into her head to marry the prince at all costs, and for that Yevgeny Pavlych survives from us."
After parting with the general, the prince unfolds Aglaya's note and reads in it an invitation to a meeting in the morning by the green bench. He is dizzy with happiness. Suddenly Rogozhin appears. He tells the prince that Nastasya Filippovna is really eager to marry him to Aglaya and even writes letters to that. She promised Rogozhin to marry him immediately after the wedding of Aglaya and Myshkin.
The prince is pleased with Rogozhin. He does not blame him at all for the assassination attempt: "I know that you were in such a position that you only thought about her." Although Rogozhin does not repent too much of his act, the prince takes him to Lebedev's dacha to celebrate his birthday.
Chapter IV. There are already quite a few people there. Drunk Lebedev makes a thoughtful speech that the entire scientific and practical direction of recent centuries is cursed. Its proponents hope to ensure universal prosperity by material growth, but “the carts that bring bread to mankind, without a moral basis, can cold-bloodedly exclude a significant part of humanity from enjoying what they bring, which has already happened. A friend of mankind with a shakiness of moral foundations is a cannibal of mankind.” In the impoverished Middle Ages, people were united by the strongest moral, religious thought, and now where is it? Everyone hopes for humanity's desire for self-preservation, but people are no less characteristic of the desire for self-destruction.
Chapter V The excited Hippolyte, sitting right there, suddenly announces that he will now read the article he has written. He begins by saying that he will soon die of consumption. The article then recounts how he had a nightmare: a disgusting skunk like a scorpion tried to bite him in his room, but was fortunately gnawed on by a house dog.
Hippolyte announces that he has decided: since there are a few weeks left to live, then it is not worth living them. But he admits that when he argued passionately on the prince’s terrace, insisting on Burdovsky’s right, he secretly dreamed, “how they all suddenly spread their arms, and take me into their arms, and ask me for something for forgiveness, and I ".
Chapter VI. Nervous Ippolit tells further about his conflicting spiritual impulses: earlier he began to deliberately torment those around him, then he succumbed to bouts of generosity and once managed to help one poor provincial doctor who had lost his job.
Being familiar with Rogozhin, Ippolit once visited his house and saw that very picture of Holbein's Christ. She shocked him too. At the sight of the disfigured body of Christ, Hippolytus had the idea that Nature is just a huge, insensitive machine, a dark, impudent and senseless force that captured and crushed a priceless creature, for the sake of which the world was created.
In new dreams of Hippolytus, someone shows him Nature in the form of a disgusting tarantula. “You can’t stay in a life that takes such forms that offend me,” he decides.
Chapter VII.“I decided to shoot myself in Pavlovsk, at sunrise,” Ippolit announces. “What is there for me in all the beauty of the world if I am an outcast in it?” Having finished reading the article, he expects a great impression from her listeners, but he sees only annoyance around him. Then he pulls out a pistol from his pocket, shoots himself in the temple - but a misfire occurs! Immediately, under the general laughter, it turns out that there was no primer in the pistol.
Crying from shame, Hippolyte is put to bed, and the prince goes for a walk in the park. He is sad: Hippolyte's confession reminded him of his own thoughts during his illness in Switzerland. The prince falls asleep on a green bench - and in the morning Aglaya wakes him up there.
Chapter VIII. At first, Aglaya childishly offers the prince to run abroad with her and do useful work there. But then he begins to wonder if he loves Nastasya Filippovna. “No,” the prince replies, “she brought me too much grief. But she herself is deeply unhappy. This unfortunate woman is convinced that she is the most fallen, the most depraved being, and she torments herself with the consciousness of her shame! In the constant consciousness of shame for her lies some kind of terrible, unnatural pleasure.
Aglaya says that Nastasya Filippovna writes letters to her. In them, she convinces that only Aglaya can make the prince happy. “This is crazy,” says the prince. "No, it's jealousy! exclaims Aglaya. “She will not marry Rogozhin and will kill herself the next day, as soon as we get married!” The prince is amazed at such insight and understands: Aglaya, who just looked so childish, is in fact far from being a child.
Chapter IX. Lebedev lost 400 rubles. The evidence tends to General Ivolgin. He stole so that he could again go to his beloved captain Terentyeva, who does not want to receive him without money.
Chapter X The prince reads with anguish the letters of Nastasya Filippovna, full of self-flagellation, given to him by Aglaya. N. F. sings in them Aglaya as an innocent perfection, and calls herself a fallen and washed-up woman. “I hardly live anymore. Next to me are two terrible eyes of Rogozhin. I'm sure he has a razor hidden in his drawer. He loves me so much that he can't help but hate me. And he will kill me before we get married.”
In the evening, the prince wanders around the park in anguish. Accidentally wanders into the Epanchins' dacha, but realizing that it is very late, he leaves from there. In the park, Nastasya Filippovna suddenly comes out from behind the trees towards him: “Have you been to her? Are you happy?" She falls on her knees before him.
Nastasya Filippovna is led away by Rogozhin, who has approached. Then he returns and explains: they came to the park with her on purpose in the evening. Nastasya Filippovna wanted to see the prince leaving Aglaya. “Have you read letters? Rogozhin asks. Do you remember the razor? The prince is shocked that Nastasya Filippovna let Parfyon read such words about him. "So are you happy?" Rogozhin asks with a grin. "No no no!" - exclaims the prince.
Dostoevsky "Idiot", part 4 - summary
Chapter I Ganya Ivolgin leaves no views of Aglaya. In his favor, the Yepanchins have been intrigued for a long time by their sister, Varya. However, now she tells Ghana: all hopes have collapsed, Aglaya is going to marry the prince. Tomorrow the Yepanchins are gathering important guests, apparently to announce their engagement.
Ganya is also annoyed by the news that his father has stolen 400 rubles. From his mother, Hippolyte already knows about the theft, gloating about it.
Chapter II. A quarrel between General Ivolgin and Ippolit, who mockingly ridicules the new tales of the general (a great fan of lying). Annoyed that his relatives do not want to support him against Ippolit, Ivolgin leaves home.
Skirmish between Hippolyte and Ganya. Hippolyte makes fun of Ganya, who tried in vain to make him his tool in the fight against the prince for the hand of Aglaya. Ganya responds by mocking Hippolyte's failed "suicide".
Chapter III. Even before all these events, Lebedev tells the prince: after one of his joint drinking with General Ivolgin, the missing wallet with money was suddenly found under a chair where it had not been lying before. Lebedev, however, pretended not to notice the wallet. Then, after a new visit by General Ivolgin, he found himself in the field of his coat, where he fell through someone neatly cut pocket. In recent days, the general has become rude to Lebedev out of vexation, and in retaliation, he exposes the ruffled skirt of his frock coat in front of him, as before, as if not noticing the wallet lying there.
Chapter IV. General Ivolgin comes to the prince and complains about Lebedev. He does not want to believe that Ivolgin in 1812 was a child in Moscow as a page with Napoleon. In a mockery of the general, Lebedev composed his own story: allegedly, French soldiers shot off his leg as a child, and he buried it in the cemetery, and then his wife did not notice during the entire marriage that her husband had an artificial leg.
Soon after the visit to the prince, the general leaves the house (see Chapter 2), but on the street falls into the arms of his son Kolya, struck by a blow.
Chapter V With these few comical chapters, Dostoevsky only sets off the deep tragedy of the novel's impending denouement.
The Yepanchins have not yet firmly decided whether to give Aglaya to the prince. Ippolit warns Myshkin that Ganya is "undermining" him. Then he again reminds that he will die soon, and asks the opinion of the prince: how to do it in the most worthy way. “Pass past us and forgive us our happiness!” - answers the prince.
Chapter VI. Before the dinner party, which should finally decide the issue of the wedding, Aglaya asks the prince not to talk about serious topics during it, and to beware of breaking an expensive Chinese vase in the living room with some careless movement.
In the evening the prince comes to dinner. Very high-ranking persons gather at the Yepanchins, but the tone of their conversation seems to the prince friendly and benevolent. An enthusiastic mood grows in his soul.
Chapter VII. The prince vividly gets involved in a general conversation that touched on the topic of Catholicism. Myshkin insists: this is a non-Christian faith and even worse than atheism. Catholicism preaches not just zero, but a slandered, opposite Christ, for it is based on the craving of the Western Church for state power, "to the sword." It was out of disgust for the spiritual impotence of Catholicism that atheism and socialism emerged. And Russian emigrants tend to passionately indulge in European teachings, since our educated stratum has long been torn off from their native soil and also has no spiritual homeland. It is necessary to return to the national origins - and the whole world, perhaps, will be saved by the Russian Christ.
Warmly waving his hands during his speech, the prince breaks that same Chinese vase. It shakes fulfilled prophecy. Inspired even more, he begins to praise the Russian high society, which he now sees in front of him. It turned out to be better than the rumors about him, and he needs to maintain his primacy in society by selfless service to the people. “Let's become servants to be foremen,” the prince enthusiastically calls, and, overwhelmed with feelings, falls in a fit.
Chapter VIII. The day after the seizure, the Yepanchins visit the prince - friendly, but making it clear that due to the severity of his illness, the idea of \u200b\u200bmarrying Aglaya has been abandoned. However, Aglaya seizes the opportunity to secretly convey to the prince: let him wait for her to his place tonight. Ippolit, who came soon, reveals amazing news to the prince: at the request of Aglaya, he helped arrange a meeting with Nastasya Filippovna for her, and it is scheduled for this evening.
The prince is horrified. Aglaya, who came in the evening, takes him with her to one dacha, where Nastasya Filippovna and Rogozhin are already waiting for them.
Aglaya begins to tell her rival about her love for the prince, blaming that Nastasya Filippovna herself tortured and abandoned him out of selfishness. “You can only love your shame and the constant thought that you have been insulted. You are grimacing. Why didn't you just leave here instead of writing letters to me? If you wanted to be an honest woman, then why didn’t you leave your seducer, Totsky, just ... without theatrical performances, and didn’t go to the laundress?
Nastasya Filippovna, in a rage, declares that Aglaya is unable to understand her and that she came to her out of cowardice: to personally verify whether he loves me more than you, or not, because you are terribly jealous. In hysterics, she shouts to Aglaya: “Do you want me to tell him now, and he will immediately leave you and stay with me forever? If he doesn’t come up to me now and leave you, then take him, I yield! .. "
Both women look at the prince. Pointing imploringly at Nastasya Filippovna, he says to Aglaya: “Is that possible! She's so unhappy!" Aglaya runs out of the house, covering her face. The prince rushes after her, but Nastasya Filippovna convulsively grabs him from behind: “After her? For her?". She drives Rogozhin out and then laughs and cries for a long time in an armchair, and the prince sits next to her and strokes her head.
Chapter IX. All Pavlovsk learns that the wedding of the prince with Nastasya Filippovna is scheduled. Aglaya, after a fatal date, ashamed to go home, rushes to the Ptitsyns, where Ganya, taking advantage of her condition, tries to make her a love confession, but she rejects him. An hour later, the prince comes to the dacha to the Yepanchins. However, those, having learned from Myshkin about what happened, immediately refuse him from the house. The prince then goes to the Yepanchins every day, asking to see Aglaya. Every day they show him the door, but the next day, as if not remembering this, he comes again, although he does not part with Nastasya Filippovna either.
Chapter X In the last days before the wedding, Nastasya Filippovna was very excited. She tries to look cheerful, but at times falls into despair. Once she imagines that at their house Rogozhin hid with a knife.
On the wedding day, Nastasya Filippovna proudly goes out to church in front of a huge crowd of hostile onlookers. But suddenly seeing Rogozhin in the crowd, she rushes to him: “Save me! Take me away! He quickly takes her in a carriage to the train.
The prince, having learned about this, only quietly says: "In her condition, this is completely in the order of things." In the evening, Vera Lebedeva finds him in terrible despair. He asks her to wake him up tomorrow for the first morning train.
Chapter XI. In the morning the prince arrives in Petersburg. In Rogozhin's house they tell him that Parfion is not there. The prince is looking for him and Nastasya Filippovna in other places, then he walks thoughtfully along the street.
Behind him, Rogozhin pulls on his sleeve: “Come to me, she is I have". They walk in silence, not speaking. Parfion is in some kind of semi-forgetfulness.
He secretly takes the prince to his house, to the very room where they had once sat together. In the semi-darkness, on the bed, one can see the motionless body of Nastasya Filippovna, stabbed to death by Parfyon. Rogozhin offers to spend the night together on the floor next to her until the police arrive.
The prince is at first stunned, but then he suddenly clearly understands the irreparability of what happened. Rogozhin, nearby, seems to forget about his presence and mutters something to himself, remembering her. The prince, weeping bitterly, begins to hug and comfort him.
This is how the people who enter find them. The prince, in complete madness, does not recognize anyone.
Chapter XII. Rogozhin is sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. In court, he does not try to mitigate his guilt.
Through the efforts of Yevgeny Pavlovich Radomsky and Kolya Ivolgin, the prince is transported to the former Swiss clinic of Schneider, who announces that now this patient is unlikely to be cured. Remaining abroad, Radomsky visits the mad prince. Once he meets in the clinic with the Yepanchin family who came to regret the unfortunate. Aglaya, however, is not among them: in Europe, this idealistic girl is passionately carried away by one rogue who pretended to be a Polish patriot count, a fighter for the liberation of the motherland ...
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