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Retelling plan

1. Prince Myshkin, on the way to St. Petersburg, meets the son of a merchant, Parfyon Rogozhin. Portrait of Nastasya Filippovna.
2. Acquaintance of Myshkin with the Epanchin family. History of Nastasya Filippovna.
3. The prince settles with the Ivolgins and gets acquainted with the whole family.
4. The arrival of a noisy company with Nastasya Filippovna at the Ivolgins' house.
5. Evening at Totsky's house: Nastasya Filippovna refuses to marry Ganya, learns about the prince's love, but leaves with Rogozhin.
6. Meeting of the prince with Rogozhin. Rogozhin makes an attempt on his life.
7. Myshkin in Pavlovsk. Talk about the "poor knight". The arrival of Burdovsky. Hippolytus speeches.
8. The defiant act of Nastasya Filippovna in relation to Radomsky, the groom of Adelaide Yepanchina.
9. Hippolyte's suicide attempt.
10. Meeting of the prince with Aglaya, and then with Nastasya Filippovna.
11. Prince Myshkin appears before Epanchina's relatives and guests, Aglaya refuses to marry him.

12. The prince is faced with a choice, he remains with Nastasya Filippovna.
13. On the day of the wedding, she leaves with Rogozhin.
14. Myshkin learns that Rogozhin killed Nastasya Filippovna.
15. Rogozhin is sent to hard labor, Prince Myshkin is placed in a hospital with a confused mind.

retelling
Part I

Chapter 1
At the end of November, a train from Switzerland arrives in St. Petersburg. Three passengers meet. One of them is Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, “a young man of about twenty-six years of age, slightly taller than average, very blond, thick-haired, with sunken cheeks and a light, pointed ... beard”, the last of a noble noble family. As a child, he fell ill with a severe nervous illness, was orphaned early and was placed by his benefactor Pavlishchev in a Swiss sanatorium. After living there for four years, he returns to his homeland with unclear, but big plans to serve her. The second is Parfen Rogozhin, the son of a wealthy merchant, who inherited a huge fortune after his father's death. He tells about himself: his father died, neither his mother nor his brother was notified, and they did not even send money for the trip; he himself annoyed his parent with revelry, beguiled sin, from Pskov, almost without boots, he goes home to St. Petersburg; brother scoundrel, from the cover of the brocade on the coffin of the parent, at night he cut off cast gold brushes. It's good that Parfyon's lawyers wrote off his share, more than a million. From him, the prince for the first time hears the name of Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, the mistress of a certain wealthy nobleman Trotsky, whom Rogozhin is passionately infatuated with. “The face is cheerful, but she suffered terribly,” says the prince, examining her portrait. The third is Lebedev, a rogue official who always knows everything.

Chapter 2
The prince with his modest bundle goes to the house of distant relatives, to General Yepanchin. There are three daughters in the general's family: the eldest Alexandra, the middle Adelaide and the youngest, a common favorite and beauty, Aglaya. In the anteroom, the prince talks on an equal footing with the footman, which leads the general to think: “the prince is just a fool and has no ambitions, because a smart prince with ambition would not sit in the front room and talk about his affairs with a footman.” Nevertheless, "for some reason he liked the prince."

Chapter 3
In the office of the prince receives the general. General Epanchin immediately fences himself off from the prince: he says that he is very busy, that there can be no family ties between them. The prince speaks frankly about himself: he was seriously ill, "frequent attacks of illness made him almost an idiot (the prince said so idiot)." The general introduces the prince to his extremely proud secretary Ganya Ivolgin, in whom Myshkin sees a portrait of Nastasya Filippovna. “This extraordinary beauty ... the face is even more striking now. It was as if there was boundless pride and contempt, almost hatred in this face, and at the same time something trusting, something surprisingly simple-hearted: these two contrasts even aroused, as it were, some kind of compassion ... This blinding beauty of a pale face, almost sunken cheeks and burning eyes; strange beauty!

Chapter 4
The prince is told some details of the fate of Nastasya Filippovna. As a girl, an orphan, she ended up in the house of the rich Mr. Totsky. He took her in for upbringing, gave her an education, and then seduced her, turned her into a concubine, and then abandoned her. Totsky, seeking to get rid of her and hatching plans to marry one of the daughters of the Yepanchins, woo her to Ganya Ivolgin, giving seventy-five thousand as a dowry, which beckon Ganya. With their help, he dreams of breaking out into the people and in the future significantly increasing his capital, but at the same time he is haunted by the humiliation of the situation. He prefers marriage to Aglaya Yepanchina, with whom he is even a little in love (although here, too, he will be enriched). He expects a decisive word from her, making his further actions dependent on this.

Chapters 5, 6
The prince strikes the Yepanchin family with spontaneity, gullibility, frankness and naivety, so extraordinary that at first they accept him very warily. For example, when asked if Aglaya was beautiful, he replied: “Almost as good as Nastasya Filippovna.” His insight, spiritual sensitivity surprises: “Nothing should be hidden from children under the pretext that they are small and that it is too early for them to know. What a sad and unfortunate thought! ... Big ones do not know that a child, even in the most difficult task, can give extremely important advice. Children are sincere, so Prince Mouse is well with them: “I ... don’t like to be with adults - I don’t like it, because I don’t know how. ... For some reason, it’s always hard for me with them, and I’m terribly glad when I can leave as soon as possible to my comrades, and my comrades have always been children ... ”Every day they begin to treat him with more and more sympathy. It turns out that the prince, who seemed to be a simpleton, and to some people a cunning one, is very intelligent, and in some things he is really deep, for example, when he talks about the death penalty he saw abroad.

Chapter 7
The prince becomes an involuntary mediator between Aglaya, who unexpectedly makes him her confidant, and Ganya, causing irritation and anger in him. Meanwhile, the prince is offered to settle not just anywhere, but in the Ivolgins' apartment.

Chapter 8
At the Ivolgins, the prince, not having time to take the room provided to him, gets acquainted with all the inhabitants of the apartment, starting with Ganya's relatives and ending with his sister's fiancé, the young usurer Ptitsyn and the master of incomprehensible occupations Ferdyshchenko. He becomes close to Ganya's thirteen-year-old brother Kolya Ivolgin.

Suddenly Nastasya Filippovna appears. The prince opened the door for her, and she mistook him at first for a lackey. She came to invite Ganya and his relatives to her for the evening.

Chapters 9, 10
Nastasya Filippovna amuses herself by listening to the fantasies of General Ivolgin, which only inflame the atmosphere. Soon a noisy company appears with Rogozhin at the head, who lays out eighteen thousand in front of Nastasya Filippovna. She scoffs: is it her, Nastasya Filippovna, for eighteen thousand? There is something like bargaining, with her contemptuously-mocking participation. Rogozhin is not going to retreat, he promises to bring a hundred thousand by the evening. For sister and mother Ganya, what is happening is unbearably insulting. Ganya's sister Varvara Ardalionovna can't stand it and calls Nastasya Filippovna "shameless". A scandal breaks out: an indignant sister spits in Ghana's face. “Ganya’s eyes dimmed, and, completely forgetting, he swung at his sister with all his might. The blow would surely hit her in the face. But suddenly another hand stopped Ganinuruka on the fly. Between him and his sister stood the prince. The enraged Ganya "slapped the prince with all his might." The prince acts, it would seem, strange: he sympathizes with the offender. "Oh, how you will be ashamed of your act!" - in this phrase all the meekness of the prince. Then he turns to Nastasya Filippovna: “And you are not ashamed! Are you the way you present yourself!” In response to the reproach, Nastasya Filippovna kisses mother Ganya’s hand and “quickly, hotly, all of a sudden flushing and blushing,” whispers: “I’m really not like that, he guessed it.” She leaves with confusion in her soul: from that moment she fell in love with the prince.

Chapters 11-13
Ganya comes to obey the prince. In the evening, the prince goes to Nastasya Filippovna. A "motley" society has gathered here - from General Yepanchin, also carried away by the heroine, to the "jester" Ferdyshchenko.

Chapters 14, 15
Nastasya Filippovna asks a sudden question to the prince, a person she barely knows, about the proposed wedding with Ganya Ivolgin: “Tell me, what do you think: to get married or not? As you say, I'll do it." Everyone is amazed. The prince whispers: "... no ... don't come out," and Nastasya Filippovna declares the matter resolved. She replies to the protesting remarks: “The prince for me is that I was the first in him, in my whole life, as I believed in a truly devoted person. He believed in me at first sight, and I believe him.” The plans of Totsky, who is present here, are thereby destroyed. By midnight, a company led by Rogozhin appears, who lays out a hundred thousand wrapped in a newspaper in front of Nastasya Filippovna. Nastasya Filippovna reprimands Ganya: “Did you really want to introduce me into your family? Rogozhin’s me! .. It was he who traded me: he started with eighteen thousand, then these hundred ... "

The prince is hurt by what is happening, he confesses his love to Nastasya Filippovna and expresses his readiness to take her, “as it is without anything!”, as a wife. She is shocked: “What will you live for, if you are already so in love that you take Rogozhin for yourself, for the prince?” He replies: “I take you honestly, not Rogozhin’s ... I don’t know anything ... and I didn’t see anything, but I ... I will consider that you are me, and not I will do honor. I am nothing, but you suffered and came out of such a hell clean, and this is a lot ... I love you, Nastasya Filippovna. I will die for you...” He finally tells what he wanted to say all day, but he was interrupted: he received a letter while still in Switzerland, with the news that he was supposed to receive a million-dollar inheritance from a deceased aunt.

Chapter 16
“The denouement is unexpected ... I ... didn’t expect it that way,” says Nastasya Filippovna. - One and a half million, and even a prince, and even, they say, an idiot to boot, what better? Rogozhin is late! Put away your pack, I'm marrying a prince and I'm richer than you myself! Nastasya Filippovna is seized by a flash of pride, a hysterical attack. She throws a bundle of banknotes into the fireplace and tells Hana to get it out of the fire with her hands, otherwise they will burn: after all, he wanted to marry her because of Totsky's money. Ganya restrains himself with the last of his strength so as not to rush after the outbreak of money, he wants to leave, but falls unconscious. Nastasya Filippovna herself snatches out a bundle with fireplace tongs and leaves the money to Ghana "as a reward for his torment" (later they will be proudly returned to them). She herself does not want to ruin the prince and decides to go with Rogozhin.

Part II

Chapter 1
Six months pass. There are rumors in St. Petersburg that Nastasya Filippovna fled several times from Rogozhin to the prince, stayed with him for some time, but then also fled from the prince. The life of the rest went back to normal.

The prince travels around Russia, in particular on inheritance cases, and simply out of interest in traveling around the country.

Chapter 2
In June, the prince comes from Moscow to St. Petersburg. At the station, the prince feels someone's hot gaze on him, which awakens vague forebodings in him. He meets with Lebedev.

Chapters 3, 4
The prince pays a visit to Rogozhin in his gloomy, like a prison, house on Gorokhovaya Street. During their conversation, the prince notices a garden knife lying on the table, he now and then takes it in his hands, until Rogozhin, finally, in annoyance, takes it away. The prince sees on the wall a copy of the painting by Hans Holbein, which depicts the savior, only taken down from the cross. Rogozhin says that he loves to look at her, the prince exclaims in amazement: "... from this picture, another may still lose faith," and Rogozhin unexpectedly confirms this. Rogozhin offers to exchange crosses, leads the prince to his mother for a blessing, since they are now like brothers.

Chapter 5
After wandering around the city, in the evening the prince returns to his hotel. At the gate, he suddenly notices a familiar figure and rushes after her to a dark narrow staircase. Here he sees the same as at the station, the sparkling eyes of Rogozhin, the knife raised. At the same moment, an epileptic seizure occurs with the prince. Rogozhin runs away. Kolya Ivolgin transports the prince to Lebedev's dacha in Pavlovsk.

Chapter 6
The Ivolgin family moves to Lebedev. The Yepanchin family and, according to rumors, Nastasya Filippovna are also in Pavlovsk. The prince gathers a society of acquaintances, including the Yepanchins, who decided to visit the sick prince. Kolya Ivolgin teases Aglaya as a "poor knight", alluding to her sympathy for the prince and arousing the interest of Aglaya's mother, Elizaveta Prokofievna, so that her daughter is forced to explain that the poems depict a person who is capable of having an ideal and give his life for this ideal.

Chapter 7
Aglaya reads Pushkin's poem with inspiration. A little later, a group of young people appears. One of them, a certain Burdovsky, claims that he is "the son of Pavlishchev." They seem to be nihilists, but only, in the words of Lebedev, "they went further, sir, because they are primarily businesslike, sir."

Chapters 8, 9
A libel is read from a newspaper about the prince. Everyone is embarrassed, and then they demand from him that he, as a noble and 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 at first retreats in embarrassment, but then again attacks the prince. Unable to bear it, Lizaveta Prokofievna tries to convince everyone, but she is reassured.

Chapter 10

The consumptive Ippolit Terentyev now turns all attention to himself, who begins to “orate” in order to assert himself. He wants to be pitied and praised. At the same time, he is ashamed of his openness, his enthusiasm is replaced by rage, especially against the prince. Then he leaves with his friends, while Myshkin listens attentively to everyone, feels sorry for everyone and feels guilty before everyone. When everyone disperses, a carriage with Nastasya Filippovna appears. She is talking familiarly with Prince Yevgeny Pavlovich Radomsky, who is courting Aglaya. He pretends not to know her.

Chapters 11, 12
Three days later, Lizaveta Prokofievna herself comes to the prince and interrogates him about the letter to Aglaya. She then takes him to her.

Part III

Chapters 1, 2
The whole family gathered in the Yepanchins' house, as well as Radomsky and Prince Shch., Adelaide's fiancé. They all go for a walk. At the station, they see another company, in which Nastasya Filippovna. She again treats Radomsky familiarly, informing him of the suicide of his uncle, who squandered a large treasury sum. Everyone is indignant at the provocation. The officer, a friend of Radomsky, remarks: “Here you just need a whip, otherwise you won’t take anything with this creature!”, in response to this, Nastasya Filippovna, snatched from someone’s cane with a cane, cuts his face until it bleeds. The officer wants to hit Nastasya Filippovna, but Prince Myshkin holds him back. Rogozhin appears and takes her away.

Chapters 3, 4
In the evening, the prince receives a note from Aglaya, and later meets with Rogozhin, who informs him that Nastasya Filippovna is writing letters to Aglaya. Returning to his place, the prince finds a merry company there, celebrating his birthday.

Chapters 5-7
Ippolit Terentyev reads aloud My Necessary Explanation, written by him, a confession of amazing depth by a young man who hardly lived, but who changed his mind a lot, doomed by illness to an untimely death. After reading, he tries to commit suicide, but there is no bullet in the gun. They begin to laugh at him, but the prince defends Ippolit, who was painfully afraid of seeming ridiculous, from attacks and ridicule.

It is already dawn, and the prince goes on a date with Aglaya.

Chapter 8
Aglaya invites the prince to become her friend and run away with her. The prince feels that he truly loves her. Here they meet Lizaveta Prokofievna, and she calls the prince to her.

Chapters 9, 10
Returning to his room, the prince is talking to Lebedev. Myshkin reads the letters that Nastasya Filippovna wrote to Aglaya. A little later, he goes to wander around the park and ends up at the Epanchins' house, and then in the same park the prince and Nastasya Filippovna meet. She kneels before him and asks him if he is happy with Aglaya, and then disappears with Rogozhin.

Part IV

Chapters 1-4
A week later, arriving from the Yepanchins' house, Varvara Ardalionovna informs Ghana that the prince has formally been declared Aglaya's fiancé. Ganya shows her sister a note from Aglaya, where she asks to meet her. General Ivolgin has a blow.

Chapters 5-7
For some time, the prince is blissful from the realization that Aglaya loves him. One evening, a kind of “bride-in-law” of the prince was to take place at the Yepanchins, high-ranking guests were invited. Aglaya believes that the prince is incomparably superior to all of them, but she is afraid that he will say or do something wrong. From this, the prince is even more nervous and afraid to make a wrong gesture, is silent, but then painfully inspired, talks a lot about Catholicism as anti-Christianity, declares his love to everyone, breaks a precious Chinese vase and falls in another fit. The audience becomes uncomfortable. Aglaya says that she never considered him her fiancé.

Chapter 8
The next day, the prince comes to visit the Yepanchin family. Then Hippolyte comes to him. Aglaya makes an appointment with Nastasya Filippovna in Pavlovsk, to which she comes with the prince. Rogozhin is also present. Aglaya sternly and hostilely asks what right Nastasya Filippovna has to write letters to her and generally interfere in her and the prince's personal lives. Offended by the tone and attitude of her rival, Nastasya Filippovna, in an angry outburst, orders the prince to stay with her and drives Rogozhin away. The prince is torn between two women. Rogozhin leaves. The prince realizes that he loves Nastasya Filippovna with love-pity and is unable to leave her.

Chapter 9
Two weeks passed, rumors about the latest events circulated around Pavlovsk. The prince's condition was getting worse, he was more and more immersed in mental confusion.

Chapter 10
The day of the wedding of the prince and Nastasya Filippovna is appointed. General Ivolgin soon dies. On the eve of the wedding, Nastasya Filippovna, inspired, joyfully prepares for the wedding. On the wedding day, near the church, she sees Rogozhin and suddenly rushes to him, asking him to take her away from here. Parfyon picks her up in his arms, gets into the carriage and takes her away. The prince follows her.

Chapter 11
In Petersburg, the prince immediately goes to Rogozhin. The old woman who opened the door says that he is not at home, but it seems to the prince that Rogozhin seems to be looking at him from behind the curtain. The prince goes to the apartment of Nastasya Filippovna, goes to her friends, trying to find out something about her. He returns to Rogozhin's house several times, but to no avail: he is not there, no one knows anything. All day the prince wanders around the sultry city, believing that Parfyon will certainly appear. Unexpectedly, he meets him: Rogozhin asks him in a whisper to follow him. In the house, he leads the prince into a room. There, in an alcove on a bed under a white sheet, furnished with "bottles with Zhdanov's liquid" so that the smell of decay is not felt, lies the dead Nastasya Filippovna. Rogozhin admits that he killed her. Rogozhin leaves the prince to spend the night with him over the corpse, and when the door was opened the next day in the presence of the police, they “found the murderer in complete unconsciousness and fever. The prince sat motionless and quiet beside him, each time at the outburst of a cry or delirium of the patient, he hastened to run his trembling hand over his hair and cheeks, as if caressing and calming him. But he no longer understood what they were asking him about, and did not recognize the people who entered.

Chapter 12
At the trial, Rogozhin averted all suspicions of complicity from the prince, taking all the blame from himself. Rogozhin is sentenced to fifteen years hard labor. Prince Myshkin is again placed in a hospital in Switzerland. His mind was completely shattered. Aglaya married some scoundrel, allegedly a Polish count, and quarreled with her family. Aglaya plunges her soul into Catholicism, hated by Prince Myshkin.

The novel takes place in Pavlovsk in St. Petersburg in late 1867 - early 1868.
Prince Myshkin Lev Nikolaevich came from Switzerland to Petersburg. He is twenty-six years old, a nobleman, the last of his kind, he became an orphan early, in childhood he was very ill with a serious nervous illness and his guardian Pavlishchev placed him in a Swiss sanatorium. He lived there for four years and has now returned to Russia to serve her. On the train, Myshkin met Parfyon Rogozhin, who was the son of a wealthy merchant who, after his father's death, inherited a very large fortune. It is from him that he learns about Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, who was the mistress of the wealthy aristocrat Totsky. Rogozhin also loves her.
The prince goes to the house of General Epanchin Myshkin is a distant relative of his wife Elizaveta Prokofievna. Yepanchin has three daughters: Alexandra, Adelaide and Aglaya. The prince is received with curiosity and sympathy. The prince was a trusting, direct, rather naive and intelligent person. Here the prince is also introduced to the proud secretary of the general, Ivolgin Ganya.
Totsky wants to get rid of Nastasya Filippovna and marry one of the daughters of the Yepanchins. And give it to Ganya Ivolgin, and give money as a dowry. Ganya loves money very much, with the help of it he wants to break into people. He would like to marry Aglaya Yepanchina. He is waiting for a decision from her, since his further actions will depend on this. The prince becomes an intermediary between Aglaya and Ganya.
The prince is offered to live in the Ivolgins' apartment. The prince does not have time to settle down and get acquainted with all the inhabitants of the apartment, as unexpected events occur. Nastasya Filippovna arrives to invite Ganya and his family to her place for the evening. She has fun listening to the speeches of General Ivolgin, which greatly inflame the stop. A noisy company arrives with Rogozhin, who places money in front of Nastasya Filippovna. There is something like bargaining going on for Nastasya Filippovna.
For Ghani's mother and his sister, everything that happens is very humiliating. Nastasya Filippovna is a corrupt woman, but for Ganya she is the hope for his enrichment. There is a scandal. Ganya's sister Varvara Ardalionovna spits in her brother's face, he wants to hit her, but the prince stands up for her and receives a slap from Ganya.
The prince is subdued by the beauty of Nastasya Filippovna, and he comes to her in the evening. A lot of people gathered in her house, from General Yepanchin to the jester Ferdyshchenko. Nastasya Filippovna, asks if she should marry Ganya, and the prince replies that this should not be done. Rogozhin arrives again, who places a hundred thousand in front of Nastasya Filippovna.
At this time, the prince confesses his love for Nastasya Filippovna and says that he is ready to marry her. It also turns out that Myshkin received a rich inheritance from his deceased aunt. Nastasya Filippovna leaves with Rogozhin, and throws a bundle of money into the fireplace and offers Ghana to get it out of there. Ganya wants to leave, but faints. Nastasya Filippovna takes out a bundle of money with fireplace tongs and leaves it to Ghana as a reward for his torment.
Six months have passed. The prince, having traveled around Russia, travels from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Rumor has it that Nastasya Filippovna ran away from the crown several times, from Rogozhin to the prince.
At the station, the prince feels someone's fiery gaze on him. The prince goes to Rogozhin, he lived in a house on Gorokhovaya Street. They talk, and the prince constantly takes a knife in his hands, Rogozhin removes it. In Rogozhin's house, the prince sees on the wall a copy of Hans Holbein's painting, which depicts the Savior, who has just been taken down from the cross. They exchange crosses, then Parfyon leads the prince to his mother for a blessing, since they are now like brothers.
Upon returning to the hotel, the prince notices a familiar figure at the gate and follows her. Here he sees the same sparkling eyes as at the station, it was Rogozhin, who brought the knife. The prince has an epileptic fit and Pafen runs away.
Myshkin moves to Pavlovsk to Lebedev's dacha, where the Yepanchin family and Nastasya Filippovna are present. He has a lot of people in the evening.
Later, a company arrives, led by a young man Burdovsky, who is the son of Pavlishchev. They are like nihilists, according to Lebedev, but more businesslike. A slander about the prince is read from the newspaper, and then they demand from him to reward his benefactor Pavlishchev. Ganya Ivolgin, proves that Burdovsky is not the son of Pavlishchev. The company leaves, only Ippolit Terentyev remains, who speaks against the prince. Myshkin listens to everyone, and feels guilty before everyone.
Then the prince visits the Yepanchins, and all those present go for a walk. Nearby, another company appears at the station, where Nastasya Filippovna is present. For a provocation, she unceremoniously turns to Radomsky, telling him that his uncle committed suicide because of the spent government money. Everyone is outraged. Radomsky's friend, an officer, angrily says that this creature needs a whip. In response to this, Nastasya Filippovna snatches a cane from someone's hands and cuts his face to the point of blood. The officer wants to retaliate with a blow to Nastasya Filippovna, but Prince Myshkin stands up for her.
At the prince's birthday, Ippolit Terentyev reads out a confession he wrote ("My necessary explanation"), after which he attempts suicide, but there is no piston in the pistol. The prince protects Hippolyte from attacks and ridicule.
In the park in the morning, Aglaya invites the prince to be her friend. The prince understands that he loves her. A little later, in the same place, Myshkin meets Nastasya Filippovna, who asks if he is happy with Aglaya, and then leaves with Rogozhin. She writes letters to Aglaya asking her to marry the prince.
A week later, the prince is announced as Aglaya's fiancé. Guests are invited to the Yepanchins to see the prince. Aglaya believes that the prince is still above all of them. At first the prince is silent, but then he makes speeches very eloquently. At the evening, Myshkin again has a seizure.
Aglaya made an appointment in Pavlovsk to meet Nastasya Filippovna, to which she goes with the prince. Rogozhin is present at the meeting. Aglaya asks Nastasya Filippovna what right she has to write letters to her and interfere in her personal life with the prince. Insulted, Nastasya Filippovna angrily asks the prince to stay with her and drives Rogozhin away. The prince rushes between two women. He loves Aglaya very much, but he also loves Nastasya Filippovna with love-pity. He can't leave her. The prince's condition is getting worse, he is more and more immersed in mental confusion.
The prince wants to marry Nastasya Filippovna. On the day of the wedding, on the way to the church, she runs to Rogozhin, who is standing in the crowd, who takes her away.
In the morning, the prince arrives in St. Petersburg and goes to Rogozhin. He is not at home, it seems to the prince that he is looking at him from behind the curtains. The prince begins to walk around Nastasya Filippovna's acquaintances, trying to find out at least something about her. He comes to Rogozhin's house several times, but he is not there. All day the prince hopes that Parfyon will still appear. On the street, he meets Rogozhin and he asks in a whisper to follow him. Rogozhin leads the prince to a room in the house, where Nastasya Filippovna lies dead on the bed.
Rogozhin and the Prince spend a sleepless night together over the corpse, and the next day the police arrive and find Rogozhin rushing about in delirium and Myshkin reassuring him, who no longer recognizes anyone and understands nothing. These events destroy Myshkin's psyche and finally turn him into an idiot.

Please note that this is only a summary of the literary work "The Idiot". This summary omits many important points and quotations.

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. Idiot. 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 compassionate concern 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 bursts in 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 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.

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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. "Is it true?" - 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 Parfyon 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 have sat down like a father to save money and, perhaps, would have saved up not two million, but ten, and you would have died of hunger on your sacks, 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 who 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? For what? 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 stage 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 respond to 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 over Ippolit, Lizaveta Prokofievna runs into him and demands frank explanations: does he love Aglaya and is he not married to Nastasya Filippovna, as rumors circulate 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 expressing 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 tells: 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 Hippolyte 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 coat in front of him, 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 attack, the Yepanchins visit the prince - in a friendly manner, 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 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 ...

Three fellow travelers met in the train car: the young heir of millions Parfen Semenovich Rogozhin, his peer, twenty-six-year-old Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, and the retired official Lebedev. The prince returns from Switzerland to St. Petersburg, where he was unsuccessfully treated for a nervous illness. He was orphaned early and until recently was in the care of his benefactor named Pavlishchev, at whose expense he corrected his health. But recently the trustee died.

Merchant Rogozhin is going to enter into the inheritance. He is madly in love with Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, the kept woman of the wealthy aristocrat Afanasy Ivanovich Totsky. For the sake of this woman, Parfyon squandered his father's money - he bought diamond earrings for his beloved. For such a daring act, Semyon Rogozhin almost killed his son. The young man had to flee from parental anger to his aunt. But unexpectedly, Rogozhin's father died.

At the station, fellow travelers disperse. Parfyon leaves with Lebedev, and Myshkin goes to the house of General Ivan Fedorovich Yepanchin, whose wife Lizaveta Prokofievna was a distant relative of the prince. There are three unmarried beautiful daughters in the wealthy Yepanchin family: Alexandra, Adelaide and the common favorite Aglaya.

The general introduced Myshkin to his family and offered to live in a boarding house maintained by Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina. Her son Ganya serves at Yepanchin. The reason for such courtesy is simple - the general needs to distract his wife from one delicate circumstance. The appearance of a new relative came in very handy.

And it was the same Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova - Totsky's mistress. This is the history of their relationship. Near the estate of Totsky there was a small property of Philip Barashkov. Once it completely burned down along with his wife. Shaken by such a terrible event, Barashkov went crazy and soon died, leaving two daughters orphans and without any means.

Totsky, out of pity, gave the girls to be raised in the family of his manager. The youngest of the sisters soon died of whooping cough, and the eldest Nastasya grew up and became a beauty. Totsky knew a lot about gorgeous women. He took the kept woman to a remote estate, where he often visited.

So four years passed. When Afanasy Ivanovich decided to marry Yepanchin's eldest daughter Alexandra, Nastasya Filippovna threatened that she would not allow this. Totsky was frightened by the pressure of the beauty and temporarily abandoned his intention. Knowing the nature of the kept woman, the millionaire understood that it would not cost anything for a girl to organize a public scandal or kill a wedding couple right at the altar.

After some time, Nastasya Filippovna began to live in St. Petersburg in a separate apartment. Her people often gathered in her living room in the evenings. In addition to Totsky, this circle included General Yepanchin, his secretary Ganya Ivolgin, and a certain Ferdyshchenko, a guest at Nina Aleksandrovna's boarding house.

Everyone was in love with Nastasya Filippovna. As for Totsky, he still did not abandon his intention to marry Alexandra, but he was still afraid of Nastasya Filippovna.

A plan matured in the head of the millionaire, which he shared with Yepanchin: it was necessary to marry Nastasya to Ganya. Surprisingly, the girl took the offer calmly and promised to give an answer in the evening. The rumor about this reached the general's wife. Myshkin was needed to distract his wife from the impending scandal.

Ganya took the prince to his home and arranged him in a boarding house. There Myshkin met Nina Aleksandrovna, her daughter Varya, her son Kolya, the father of the family Ardalion Alexandrovich Ivolgin, and also a certain Mr. Ptitsyn. It was a friend of Gani, who was courting Varvara. The neighbor at the boarding house Ferdyshchenko also came to get acquainted.

At this time, a quarrel flares up in the house over the possible marriage of Nastasya Filippovna with Ganya. The secretary's family is categorically against kinship with this "fallen woman". The 75 thousand rubles that Totsky is ready to allocate as a dowry did not help either.

Suddenly, Nastasya Filippovna herself comes to visit, and after her Rogozhin, Lebedev and the company of Parfyon's hangers-on appear in the house. Having learned about the possible marriage of Ganya and Nastasya Filippovna, Rogozhin came to offer the secretary money for the refusal. He is sure that Ganya can be bought. The merchant has the same opinion about Nastasya Filippovna: he first promises her 18 thousand, and then raises the bar to 100 thousand rubles.

The scandal flares up with renewed vigor and culminates when Myshkin defends Varvara from Ganya's attack. He receives a slap in the face from an enraged secretary, but does not return it. Only with a word reproaches Ganya, and Nastasya Filippovna says that she really is not what she wants to be known in society. For this reproach and the gift of hope, the woman is grateful to the prince.

Myshkin visits Nastasya Filippovna in the evening without an invitation. The hostess is glad of his appearance and asks the prince to answer the fateful question of marriage. “As you say, I will do it,” promises Nastasya Filippovna. Myshkin says "no".

Here Parfen Rogozhin appears with the promised 100 thousand. He tosses a wad of money wrapped in newspaper onto the table. General Yepanchin, seeing that the prey is slipping out of his hands, calls on the prince to intervene in the situation. Lev Nikolayevich proposes to Nastasya Filippovna and announces the inheritance. It turns out that he came for him from Switzerland. This is a huge amount, more than Rogozhin received.

Nastasya Filippovna thanks the prince, but honestly declares that she has no right to spoil the reputation of a wealthy aristocrat. She agrees to go with Rogozhin. But first he wants to know: is it true that Ganya is ready for everything for the sake of money?

The woman throws a wad of bills into the fireplace and tells the secretary to pull them out with her bare hands. Ganya finds the strength not to succumb to the provocation and tries to leave. However, at the exit he faints. Nastasya Filippovna herself takes out a pack with tongs and instructs her to give it to Gan when he wakes up. Then he leaves to go on a spree with Parfyon.

Part two

After a night spent with Rogozhin, Nastasya Filippovna disappears. Rumor has it that she went to Moscow. Parfyon and the prince go there. On the eve of departure, Ganya comes to Myshkin and gives those same 100 thousand rubles with a request to return them to Nastasya Filippovna.

Six months have passed. During this time, Varvara married Ptitsyn, and Ganya retired from the service and no longer appears in the Yepanchins' house. Totsky's courtship to Alexandra was upset, he married a French marquise and left for Paris. Unexpectedly and successfully married the middle of the sisters - Adelaide. There are persistent rumors that Myshkin's legacy is not so great, and Rogozhin did find Nastasya Filippovna and tried to marry her twice. However, the bride each time ran away from the crown to Myshkin. But then she again came to Rogozhin.

Returning to St. Petersburg, Myshkin finds Parfyon. They develop a strange relationship of friends-rivals. Young people even exchange body crosses - they fraternize according to Russian custom. Parfyon is sure that Nastasya Filippovna loves the prince, but considers herself unworthy to be his wife. She also understands that her relationship with Rogozhin will someday end badly and therefore avoids marriage. But he cannot break out of this vicious circle.

Once a jealous Rogozhin on a dark staircase in a hotel rushed at Myshkin with a knife. Only an epileptic attack saved Leo from death. Frightened Rogozhin runs away, and Kolya Ivolgin finds the prince with his head broken on a step and takes him to the dacha to Lebedev in Pavlovsk. The Ivolgin and Epanchin families gather there.

Suddenly, a company of young people appears at the dacha together with Lebedev's nephew Ippolit. Their goal is to get money from the prince for the son of his benefactor Pavlishchev. Myshkin knows about this story, he asks Ganya to figure everything out. The former secretary convincingly proved that the person who claims to be the son of a benefactor is not one. This is the same orphan as the prince, whose fate was dealt with by Pavlishchev. Misled by a swindler and rumors about Myshkin's rich inheritance, he and his friends appeared to appeal to the conscience of Lev Nikolaevich. The prince is ready to help, but his condition is greatly exaggerated by rumor. Embarrassed young man refuses money.

Nastasya Filippovna methodically persuades Aglaya to marry the prince, trying to arrange the life of a loved one with a worthy woman.

Part three

Summer residents are going for a walk. Everyone jokes about the possible wedding of the prince and Aglaya. Nearby is Nastasya Filippovna, who again behaves defiantly and insults Aglaya's boyfriend Yevgeny Radomsky. An officer friend stands up for him, but he gets hit in the face by Nastasya Filippovna with a cane. Myshkin again has to intervene in the incident. He passes Nastasya Filippovna to Rogozhin. Everyone expects the officer to challenge the prince to a duel.

Guests unexpectedly come to Myshkin's birthday, although he did not invite anyone. Eugene, to everyone's delight, announces that the incident is hushed up and there will be no duel. Here is Rogozhin. The prince assures Parfyon that he has forgiven him for the knife attack and that they are still brothers.

Among the guests is Lebedev's nephew Ippolit, who is sick with consumption. He declares that he will die soon, but does not intend to wait, but will shoot himself right now. During the night, the patient reads his work, in which he justifies suicide. But the pistol that was taken from Hippolyte was not loaded.

Myshkin meets Aglaya in the park. The girl gives the prince Nastasya Filippovna's letters, in which she begs Aglaya to marry Lev Nikolaevich. Aglaya claims that Nastasya Filippovna is madly in love with the prince and wishes him well. She even promised to become Rogozhin's wife immediately after the wedding of Aglaya and Myshkin.

Lebedev claims that 400 rubles have disappeared from him. Early in the morning, Ferdyshchenko also disappeared from the dacha. Lebedev suspects that he stole the money.

The frustrated prince wanders around the park and meets Nastasya Filippovna. She kneels before Myshkin, asks for forgiveness and promises to leave. Rogozhin, who suddenly appeared, takes Nastasya Filippovna away, but then returns to ask Myshkin an important question: is the prince happy? Lev Nikolayevich answers in the negative.

Part Four

The dying Ippolit plagues the entire Ivolgin family, especially his father, who is becoming more and more entangled in lies. It turns out that a retired general took Lebedev's wallet with money, and then threw it up as if it had fallen out of his pocket. Every day the old man's fantasies become more and more ridiculous. For example, Ivolgin tells the prince that he personally knew Napoleon. Soon the ex-general has a stroke, he dies.

The Epanchins are preparing for the wedding of Myshkin and Aglaya. A noble society gathers, to which the groom is introduced. Myshkin suddenly makes a ridiculous speech, breaks an expensive vase, and then has a seizure.

Aglaya visits the prince and asks to go together to Nastasya Filippovna. Rogozhin is present at their meeting. Aglaya demands that Nastasya Filippovna stop bringing her to the prince and torturing everyone. She accuses Barashkova of the fact that she likes to flaunt her resentment and "ruined" honor. If she wished happiness to Myshkin, she would have left long ago and left him alone.

In response, the proud beauty begins to scoff: she only has to beckon the prince, and he will not resist the spell. Nastasya Filippovna fulfills her threat, and the confused Lev Nikolaevich does not know what to do. Myshkin rushes between two lovers. He rushes after the fleeing Aglaya. But Nastasya Filippovna catches up with the prince and falls into his arms without memory. Forgetting about Aglaya, Myshkin begins to console Nastasya Filippovna. Rogozhin, who has been watching this scene, walks away. The prince is more and more immersed in mental turmoil.

In two weeks the wedding of Lev Nikolayevich and Nastasya Filippovna is scheduled. All attempts by Myshkin to meet and explain to Aglaya fail. The Yepanchins are returning from Pavlovsk to Petersburg.

Yevgeny tries to convince Myshkin that he acted badly, and Nastasya Filippovna is even worse. The prince confesses that he loves both women, but in different ways. For Nastasya Filippovna, he feels love-compassion. The bride is behaving very eccentrically. Now he comforts the prince, then he is hysterical.

Rogozhin appears at the wedding ceremony. Nastasya Filippovna rushes to him and asks the merchant to save her. They run to the station. To the surprise of the guests, Myshkin does not follow. He calmly spends the evening and only in the morning begins to look for the fugitives. But at first he can't find it anywhere. The prince wanders the streets for a long time until he accidentally meets Rogozhin. He brings Myshkin to his home and shows him Nastasya Filippovna, who was killed by him.

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 Nikolayevich, 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.

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 epileptic attack. 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 a 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") broke 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 console 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.