The Idiot

The Twenty-six-year-old Prince Myshkin, Following A Stay Of Several Years In A Swiss Sanatorium, Returns To Russia To Collect An Inheritance And Be Among People. Even Before He Reaches Home He Meets The Dark Rogozhin, A Rich Merchant's Son Whose Obsession With The Beautiful Nastasya Filippovna Eventually Draws All Three Of Them Into A Tragic Denouement. In Petersburg The Prince Finds Himself A Stranger In A Society Obsessed With Money, Power, And Manipulation. Scandal Escalates To Murder As Dostoevsky Traces The Surprising Effect Of This Positively Beautiful Man On The People Around Him, Leading To A Final Scene That Is One Of The Most Powerful In All Of World Literature.