Which, eHe gets a load of Nastasya's portrait and is totally struck by her beauty and the deep suffering he reads on her face. General Epanchin's ambitious and vain employee Gavril Ivolgin (Ganya) is actually in love with Aglaya, but can't pass up the opportunity to make bank, and so has agreed to marry Nastasya for seventy-five thousand roubles. Because that whole arrangement was pretty skeezy, she is now out for revenge and so Totsky wants help marrying her off in order to stop being harassed. General Epanchin has a gross old man friend, Totsky, who a few years ago had kept a mistress, Nastasya Flippovna Barashkov. Myshkin shows up just as a lot of crap is about to hit the fan. Epanchin taking him under her wing, and Aglaya, the youngest and most beautiful daughter, seeming to take an interest in him. When Myshkin shows up, he kind of just charms/disarms his way into the family, with General Epanchin giving him a job, Mrs.

They are a part of the social elite, but for some reason they are slightly odd in their social circle. The only person he knows to contact in Russia is a very distant relative-Lizaveta Epanchin, the wife of General Epanchin, and mom to three daughters. On the train, he meets Parfyon Rogozhin and Lebedev. Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin comes to Petersburg by train from Switzerland, where he's been a long-term patient for debilitating epilepsy.

Dostoevsky novel the idiot