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The Idiot

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Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin is, together with the general's wife Epanchina, the last of the old and decayed princely line of the Myshkins (ch. II of Part One), orphaned from childhood, raised in the country by his benefactor Pavlishchev for the sake of... Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova is the daughter of the retired officer Filipp Alexandrovich Barashkov, orphaned as a small child after the fire that killed her mother and drove her father mad, taken in by Afanasy Ivanovich Totsky, a rich neighbor, who at... Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin is the son of a merchant who died a month ago leaving two and a half million, dark-haired, wearing a fur coat, pale and feverish, and he returns secretly to Petersburg on the same train and in the same carriage as Lev Nikolayevich... Aglaya Ivanovna Epanchina Aglaya Ivanovna Epanchina is the youngest daughter of General Ivan Fyodorovich Epanchin and Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Epanchina, twenty years old at the start of the book, the beauty of the house, for whom her sisters, it is said, would make sacrifices (ch. II... Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin, Ganya, is twenty-eight at the start of the book, handsome, with a Napoleonic goatee, and works for General Epanchin in a company (ch. II of Part One). He is the eldest son of the retired general Ardalion Alexandrovich Ivolgin,... Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Epanchina Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Epanchina, the general's wife, is the wife of General Ivan Fyodorovich Epanchin and the last princess of the old, faded Myshkin family, an origin she prizes and before which her husband, who married her young without beauty or dowry,... Ivan Fyodorovich Epanchin Ivan Fyodorovich Epanchin is the general in whose house Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin knocks on the morning of his arrival. He is fifty-six, the son of a soldier and uneducated, made his fortune with houses, an estate and shares in companies, and cultivates the... Afanasy Ivanovich Totsky Afanasy Ivanovich Totsky is fifty-five when the novel opens, enormously rich, refined, a great connoisseur of beauty and a partner of General Ivan Fyodorovich Epanchin in some businesses (chapter IV of Part One). He is the man who made Nastasya Filippovna... Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev is the clerk with the red nose who knows everything about everyone and joins the conversation on the train, in chapter I of Part One, when he hears about Rogozhin's inheritance. A recent widower (his wife died in childbirth five... Ardalion Alexandrovich Ivolgin Ardalion Alexandrovich Ivolgin, General Ivolgin, is the father of Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin, of Varvara Ardalionovna Ivolgina and of Nikolai Ardalionovich Ivolgin, husband of Nina Alexandrovna, a retired general of fifty-five or more, fat, in a threadbare... Hippolyte Terentyev Hippolyte Terentyev is the eldest son of the captain's widow Marfa Borisovna, the woman to whom General Ivolgin hands over the prince's twenty-five rubles, a young man of seventeen or eighteen in the final stage of consumption, and a friend of Nikolai... Evgeny Pavlovich Radomsky Evgeny Pavlovich Radomsky is a distant relative of Prince Sch., an aide-de-camp of twenty-eight, rich, witty and of good family, who enters the Epanchins' house through the hand of Adelaida's fiancé and becomes a regular visitor after seeing Aglaya Ivanovna... Nikolai Ardalionovich Ivolgin Nikolai Ardalionovich Ivolgin, Kolya, is the youngest son of General Ardalion Alexandrovich Ivolgin and Nina Alexandrovna, brother of Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin and Varvara Ardalionovna Ivolgina. He is thirteen when the novel begins, sleeps with his father... Varvara Ardalionovna Ivolgina Varvara Ardalionovna Ivolgina, Varya, is the sister of Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin and Nikolai Ardalionovich Ivolgin, daughter of General Ardalion Alexandrovich Ivolgin and Nina Alexandrovna. She is twenty-three when the novel begins and, the narrator says,... Aleksandra Ivanovna Epanchina Aleksandra Ivanovna Epanchina is the eldest daughter of General Ivan Fyodorovich Epanchin and Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Epanchina, sister of Adelaida Ivanovna Epanchina and Aglaya Ivanovna Epanchina. She is twenty-five when the novel begins and is a musician... Adelaida Ivanovna Epanchina Adelaida Ivanovna Epanchina is the middle daughter of General Ivan Fyodorovich Epanchin and Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Epanchina, sister of Aleksandra Ivanovna Epanchina and Aglaya Ivanovna Epanchina. She is twenty-three when the novel begins and is a painter...

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