{ "schemaVersion": 1, "slug": "the-idiot-pg2638", "title": "The Idiot", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Eva (Translator) Martin", "language": "en", "spoilers": true, "characters": [ { "name": "Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation", "aliases": [ "the Foundation", "PGLAF" ], "description": "A nonprofit educational corporation described in the license as the owner of a compilation copyright in the Project Gutenberg collection. The text gives its mission, legal status, contact information, and donation details." }, { "name": "Michael S. Hart", "aliases": [ "Professor Michael S. Hart" ], "description": "The originator of the Project Gutenberg concept of a freely shared electronic library. He produced and distributed its eBooks for forty years." }, { "name": "Prince Lef Nicolaievitch Muishkin", "aliases": [ "Prince Muishkin", "Lef Nicolaievitch", "the prince" ], "description": "A kind, epileptic prince who had formally proposed marriage to Aglaya but is engaged to Nastasia Philipovna after choosing to comfort her during their confrontation. He says he loves both women, though he regards Nastasia as a sick, unhappy child; after she flees their wedding with Rogojin, he finds her murdered and remains by Rogojin in a feverish, unresponsive state. He is returned to Dr. Schneider’s care in Switzerland, with grave fears for his mental recovery." }, { "name": "Aglaya Epanchin", "aliases": [ "Aglaya", "Aglaya Ivanovna" ], "description": "The youngest Epanchin daughter, whom Muishkin loves and had formally asked to marry. She later marries a Polish count in exile against her parents’ wishes; he proves to be a dubious figure, and his priestly friend helps estrange her from her family." }, { "name": "General Epanchin", "aliases": [ "General Ivan Fedorovitch Epanchin", "Fedor Ivanovitch", "Ivan Fedorovitch" ], "description": "A wealthy government official, husband of Lizabetha Prokofievna and father of the Epanchin daughters. He declines to interfere in Muishkin’s marriage, and later remains in St. Petersburg while his family visits the prince in Switzerland." }, { "name": "Aglaya’s mother", "aliases": [ "Mrs. General Epanchin", "Elizabetha Prokofievna", "Lizabetha Prokofievna", "Madame Epanchin", "Mrs. Epanchin" ], "description": "Wife of General Epanchin and mother of the Epanchin daughters. She declines Lebedeff’s attempt to enlist her in stopping Muishkin’s wedding, but later weeps when she sees the prince incapacitated in Switzerland and appears to forgive him." }, { "name": "Alexandra Epanchin", "aliases": [ "Alexandra", "Alexandra Ivanovna" ], "description": "The eldest Epanchin daughter. She later visits Muishkin in Switzerland with her family and thanks Evgenie Pavlovitch for his kindness to the prince." }, { "name": "Adelaida Epanchin", "aliases": [ "Adelaida", "Adelaida Ivanovna" ], "description": "The middle Epanchin daughter, who later visits Muishkin in Switzerland with her family and thanks Evgenie Pavlovitch for his kindness to him. Evgenie observes some lack of harmony between her and her fiancé." }, { "name": "Gavrila Ardalionovitch Ivolgin", "aliases": [ "Gavrila Ardalionovitch", "Gania" ], "description": "An ambitious young man whose father dies after a second stroke. He attends the prince’s planned wedding and later visits Muishkin in Switzerland with the Epanchin family." }, { "name": "Hippolyte", "aliases": [ "Hippolyte Terentieff" ], "description": "A consumptive young man who warns Muishkin that Rogojin may harm Aglaya, frightening the prince before the wedding. He dies about two weeks after Nastasia Philipovna’s death." }, { "name": "Lebedeff", "aliases": [ "Lukian Timofeyovitch" ], "description": "A talkative clerk and Muishkin’s landlord. He tries to have the prince declared mentally incapable to stop the wedding, then confesses the failed scheme to him; after Nastasia’s murder, he helps bring the police to Rogojin’s flat." }, { "name": "Vera", "aliases": [ "Lebedeff’s big daughter", "Vera Lukianovna" ], "description": "Lebedeff’s eldest daughter, who is distressed by Muishkin’s marriage plans but remains at his house on the wedding night. She keeps his plan to leave for Petersburg secret and later corresponds with Evgenie Pavlovitch about the prince’s condition." }, { "name": "Colia Ivolgin", "aliases": [ "Colia", "Kolia", "Nicolai Ardalionovitch" ], "description": "Gania’s thirteen-year-old brother, who reconciles with Muishkin before their father dies. After the wedding disaster, he helps the prince and later chooses Evgenie Pavlovitch as his confidant, sharing what he knows about Muishkin’s condition." }, { "name": "Nina Alexandrovna Ivolgina", "aliases": [ "Nina Alexandrovna" ], "description": "Gania and Colia’s mother and General Ivolgin’s wife. After her husband dies, Muishkin visits her family during their mourning; she later worries that Colia is unusually thoughtful." }, { "name": "Varvara Alexandrovna Ivolgina", "aliases": [ "Varvara Alexandrovna", "Varia", "Varvara Alexandrovna Ptitsin", "Varvara Ardalionovna" ], "description": "Gania’s sister and Ptitsin’s wife. She is among Muishkin’s friends and relatives who continue living as before after the central events." }, { "name": "Evgenie Pavlovitch", "aliases": [ "Evgenie Pavlovitch Radomski" ], "description": "A wealthy young officer who challenges Muishkin over the harm he caused Aglaya and doubts that he truly loves either woman. He later becomes the prince’s close friend and confidant, arranges his return to Dr. Schneider’s care, and regularly writes Vera about his condition." }, { "name": "Prince S——", "aliases": [ "Prince S" ], "description": "An eminent young prince related to Evgenie Pavlovitch. He declines to intervene in Muishkin’s marriage and later visits the prince in Switzerland with the Epanchin family." }, { "name": "Nastasia Philipovna Barashkoff", "aliases": [ "Nastasia Philipovna", "Nastasia Philipovna Barashkoff", "Nastia" ], "description": "A beautiful, proud woman whom Totski took in as a child and exploited when she was young. She marries neither Muishkin nor Rogojin: on her wedding day she flees with Rogojin, who kills her; she had been increasingly fearful and unstable beforehand." }, { "name": "Parfen Rogojin", "aliases": [ "Rogojin" ], "description": "A passionate man infatuated with Nastasia Philipovna and bound to Muishkin by a declared friendship. He takes Nastasia from the wedding and murders her; after a brain fever and trial, he is sentenced to fifteen years’ hard labour in Siberia." }, { "name": "Daria Alexeyevna", "aliases": [ "the actress", "the loud woman" ], "description": "A lively, kind-hearted actress with whom Nastasia stays. She witnesses Nastasia’s distress before the wedding and is among those who go to Petersburg after learning of the danger." }, { "name": "Keller", "aliases": [ "the retired officer", "the former lieutenant and boxing teacher", "the boxer", "ex-lieutenant" ], "description": "A retired officer and boxer, formerly a follower of Rogojin, whom Muishkin appoints his best man. He helps escort Nastasia to the church, then returns after her flight and remains with the prince after the wedding disaster." }, { "name": "Antip Burdovsky", "aliases": [ "Pavlicheff’s son", "the son of Pavlicheff" ], "description": "A thin, poorly dressed young man who falsely claimed to be Pavlicheff’s son. He serves as a best man at Muishkin’s wedding and later goes to see Hippolyte." }, { "name": "Ptitsin", "aliases": [ "Ivan Petrovitch Ptitsin", "Mr. Ptitsin" ], "description": "A money-lender and Varvara’s husband. He attends Muishkin’s wedding and later continues living as before." }, { "name": "General Ardalion Alexandrovitch Ivolgin", "aliases": [ "General Ivolgin", "Ardalion Alexandrovitch" ], "description": "Gania’s father, a retired general whose volatile behavior and drinking trouble his family. He dies after a second stroke, eight days after the first." }, { "name": "The prince’s narrator", "aliases": [ "narrator" ], "description": "The narrator recounts the story and comments directly on its characters and events. Here the narrator describes the wedding, Nastasia’s murder, and the later fates of the principal characters." }, { "name": "The old lady, Rogojin’s mother", "aliases": [ "Rogojin’s mother", "Parfen Rogojin’s mother" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly woman who has been nearly demented since her husband’s death. She remains alive after Parfen’s conviction, and is spared knowledge of the murder and its consequences." }, { "name": "Rogojin’s brother", "aliases": [ "Senka Rogojin", "brother Senka" ], "description": "Parfen Rogojin’s brother, who lives in the wing of the family house. After Parfen is sentenced, he inherits most of the family fortune." }, { "name": "The porter at Rogojin’s house", "aliases": [ "the porter" ], "description": "An unnamed porter who confirms that Rogojin slept at home and later reports seeing him return with a friend. His testimony helps Lebedeff secure police assistance to open the flat." }, { "name": "Old woman who opened the door at Rogojin’s mother’s home", "aliases": [ "the old woman" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly servant who opens the door at the Rogojin home and denies knowing whether Nastasia visited. Rogojin had instructed her to conceal his presence from Muishkin." }, { "name": "The servant at the Ismailofsky lodgings", "aliases": [ "the aged servant" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly servant who tells Muishkin that Rogojin is not at his mother’s flat and answers his questions about Nastasia evasively." }, { "name": "The family at the Ismailofsky lodgings", "aliases": [ "the good people at the lodgings", "the agitated ladies" ], "description": "An unnamed family at the respectable widow’s lodging, who recognize Muishkin and learn about his abandoned wedding. They urge him to confront Rogojin and help search for Nastasia." }, { "name": "The mother at the Ismailofsky lodgings", "aliases": [ "the mother" ], "description": "An unnamed woman in the family at the Ismailofsky lodgings. She searches several places for Nastasia and plans to ask Daria Alexeyevna for news." }, { "name": "The widow who rents rooms near Ismailofsky barracks", "aliases": [ "the respectable widow", "the lady of the house" ], "description": "An unnamed widow who lets furnished rooms near the Ismailofsky barracks, where Nastasia had previously lodged. Her household receives Muishkin while he searches for Nastasia." }, { "name": "The German lady who was Nastasia’s friend", "aliases": [ "the German lady" ], "description": "An unnamed German woman who had been a friend of Nastasia. She has not seen or heard from Nastasia since a quarrel several weeks earlier." }, { "name": "The old doctor who examined Muishkin informally", "aliases": [ "the doctor", "Lebedeff’s old friend" ], "description": "An unnamed married doctor and father of a family whom Lebedeff brings to visit Muishkin under the pretext of discussing Hippolyte. He concludes that the prince’s conduct does not show mental incapacity and later attends the wedding." }, { "name": "The doctor’s wife and children", "aliases": [ "the doctor’s family" ], "description": "The unnamed wife and children of the doctor Lebedeff brings to visit Muishkin; the doctor’s compliments to Vera offend her." }, { "name": "The Polish count", "aliases": [ "the Polish count", "the count" ], "description": "An unnamed Polish man in exile to whom Aglaya becomes briefly attached and then marries against her parents’ wishes. He proves neither a genuine count nor a political exile, and his priestly friend helps estrange Aglaya from her family." }, { "name": "The Jesuit priest who influenced Aglaya", "aliases": [ "the celebrated Jesuit priest", "the priest" ], "description": "An unnamed celebrated Jesuit priest whom Aglaya visits in confession. He makes her a fanatic and, with the Polish count, contributes to her estrangement from her family." }, { "name": "The old gentleman leading the wedding-day crowd", "aliases": [ "the old gentleman" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly man at the head of a crowd that presses to enter Muishkin’s house after Nastasia flees. Muishkin courteously invites him and some others inside for tea." }, { "name": "The young woman at the station", "aliases": [ "the girl on the platform" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman at the station wearing an old-fashioned black cloak and silk headscarf. Rogojin pays her fifty roubles for them to disguise Nastasia as they board the train." }, { "name": "The coachman who drove Rogojin and Nastasia", "aliases": [ "the coachman" ], "description": "An unnamed coachman whom Rogojin pays to drive him and Nastasia to the station quickly." }, { "name": "The crowd at Nastasia’s wedding departure", "aliases": [ "the spectators", "the crowd" ], "description": "A crowd gathered outside Nastasia’s house and the church, some of whom jeer and whistle as she leaves for the wedding. Their taunts and attention intensify her humiliation." }, { "name": "The crowd of visitors at Muishkin’s house", "aliases": [ "the excited bands of people", "the would-be guests", "the strange visitors" ], "description": "Unnamed onlookers who besiege Muishkin’s house after Nastasia flees. He invites several inside and receives them courteously, turning the disturbance into a civil gathering." }, { "name": "The lawyer who advised Lebedeff", "aliases": [ "the clever lawyer", "the old gentleman" ], "description": "An unnamed lawyer known to Lebedeff. He says a legal effort to restrain Muishkin could succeed if competent witnesses established the prince’s mental incapacity." }, { "name": "The lawyer who defended Rogojin", "aliases": [ "Rogojin’s counsel", "the clever and eloquent counsel" ], "description": "An unnamed defense lawyer who argues at Rogojin’s trial that brain inflammation caused the murder and had been brought on by the accused’s sufferings." }, { "name": "The Polish count’s friend", "aliases": [ "the count’s friend" ], "description": "An unnamed priestly friend of Aglaya’s Polish husband who helps cause a quarrel between Aglaya and her family." }, { "name": "Nastasia’s companions at the wedding", "aliases": [ "the friends about her" ], "description": "Unnamed friends who accompany Nastasia from Daria Alexeyevna’s house toward her wedding carriage. They are stunned when she suddenly runs to Rogojin." }, { "name": "The dressmakers and maids at Nastasia’s house", "aliases": [ "the army of dressmakers and maids" ], "description": "Unnamed dressmakers and maids who surround Nastasia on her wedding morning and report that she is cheerful and absorbed in choosing her diamonds." }, { "name": "Prince N.", "aliases": [ "the eminent Prince N." ], "description": "A wealthy, handsome prince and charming storyteller. He attends the Epanchins’ gathering and later helps restore the evening after Muishkin’s seizure." }, { "name": "Princess Bielokonski", "aliases": [ "Old Princess Bielokonski" ], "description": "An elderly friend of Lizabetha Prokofievna and Aglaya’s godmother. She comforts Muishkin after he breaks the vase, recalls his earlier visit to her in Moscow, and advises Lizabetha that he is an unsuitable husband for Aglaya." }, { "name": "The wife of the dignitary", "aliases": [ "the dignitary’s wife" ], "description": "An unnamed society woman married to an elderly high official. At the gathering, she speaks with General Epanchin’s chief while Muishkin addresses the company." }, { "name": "The old dignitary", "aliases": [ "the high official", "General Epanchin’s chief" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly and influential official who is General Epanchin’s superior and long-standing protector. He treats Muishkin kindly after the vase breaks, tries to calm him during his speech, and later advises General Epanchin about Aglaya’s future." }, { "name": "The old general who is General Epanchin’s superior", "aliases": [ "the German-named general", "the count or baron" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly military general, reputed for administrative ability, who is General Epanchin’s immediate superior. At the gathering he ignores Muishkin’s speech and converses with the dignitary’s wife." }, { "name": "Ivan Petrovitch", "aliases": [ "Pavlicheff’s cousin" ], "description": "A distant cousin of Nicolai Andreevitch Pavlicheff and an acquaintance of Muishkin from the prince’s childhood. At the Epanchins’ gathering, he laughs kindly with Muishkin and confirms that he once helped villagers rebuild their homes." }, { "name": "The student Porkunoff", "aliases": [ "Porkunoff" ], "description": "A student whom the old dignitary reportedly helped save from being sent to Siberia." }, { "name": "The clerk Shoabrin", "aliases": [ "Shoabrin" ], "description": "A clerk whom the old dignitary reportedly helped save from being sent to Siberia." }, { "name": "The villagers whose homes burned", "aliases": [ "the burned-out villagers" ], "description": "Unnamed villagers whose homes were destroyed by fire. Ivan Petrovitch reportedly gave them wood to rebuild, though the prince had heard an inaccurate version of the story." }, { "name": "Nastasia’s housemaid who testified in court", "aliases": [ "the housemaid" ], "description": "An unnamed housemaid who recently testified against her lover in court. Nastasia invokes her as someone who would understand her better than Aglaya does." }, { "name": "The Frenchman who became a priest", "aliases": [ "the Frenchman" ], "description": "An unnamed Frenchman in a story used by the narrator to illustrate the implausible rumors about Muishkin. He accepts ordination, then tells his bishop he does not believe in God and asks to give up the priesthood." }, { "name": "The Frenchman’s bishop", "aliases": [ "the bishop" ], "description": "An unnamed bishop to whom the Frenchman writes after being ordained, asking to surrender his orders." }, { "name": "Mr. Turgenieff", "aliases": [ "Turgenieff" ], "description": "An author whose writing is cited in the gossip about the prince’s supposed dabbling in Nihilism." }, { "name": "The narrator’s gossip-mongers", "aliases": [ "the talented gossip-mongers" ], "description": "Unnamed people in various social circles who rapidly spread and embellish stories about Muishkin, Aglaya, and Nastasia." }, { "name": "The prince’s wedding guests", "aliases": [ "the wedding guests" ], "description": "Unnamed members of society who attend the wedding gossip surrounding Muishkin and Nastasia; reports say the ceremony is to be public in Pavlofsk." }, { "name": "The prince’s supposed bride", "aliases": [ "the daughter of the family" ], "description": "Aglaya, referred to in circulating rumors as Muishkin’s fiancée, whom he is falsely said to have publicly discarded at the Epanchins’ gathering." }, { "name": "The French priest in the gossip anecdote", "aliases": [ "the newly ordained priest" ], "description": "The Frenchman who reportedly became a priest despite not believing in God, then wrote to his bishop the next day asking to surrender his orders." }, { "name": "The girl at Varia’s house", "aliases": [ "the daughter at Varia’s house" ], "description": "Aglaya, who reportedly takes refuge at Varia’s home after leaving Nastasia’s house, then returns home with her mother and sisters." }, { "name": "The prince’s best man", "aliases": [ "the best man" ], "description": "Keller, whom Muishkin earnestly asks to serve as best man at his planned wedding to Nastasia." }, { "name": "The man who gives Nastasia away", "aliases": [ "the giver-away" ], "description": "Antip Burdovsky, who is assigned to give Nastasia away at her planned wedding to Muishkin and is delighted by the role." }, { "name": "The bridegroom-to-be", "aliases": [ "the recognized bridegroom" ], "description": "Muishkin, described in the circulating gossip as Aglaya’s recognized bridegroom before he is said to have thrown her over for Nastasia." }, { "name": "The little child Muishkin praises", "aliases": [ "the little child" ], "description": "An unnamed child whom Muishkin cites as an example of a lovely thing in life." }, { "name": "God’s day", "aliases": [ "the dawn" ], "description": "A personified image in Muishkin’s speech, representing the beauty of daybreak." }, { "name": "The green tree", "aliases": [ "the tree" ], "description": "A tree Muishkin cites as an example of beauty that can make a person happy simply by looking at it." }, { "name": "Adelaida’s fiancé", "aliases": [ "Adelaida’s bridegroom" ], "description": "An unnamed man engaged to Adelaida Epanchin. She discusses Muishkin’s emotional response to Ivan Petrovitch with him." }, { "name": "The wealthy distant relative of Lizabetha Prokofievna", "aliases": [ "the dissatisfied gentleman" ], "description": "An unnamed, elderly and wealthy distant relative of Lizabetha Prokofievna, known as one of the dissatisfied. He attends the Epanchins’ gathering and is thought by Lizabetha to be a possible suitor for Alexandra." }, { "name": "The colonel of engineers", "aliases": [ "the serious colonel" ], "description": "An unnamed, serious and quiet colonel of engineers, a friend of Prince S. He attends the Epanchins’ gathering and wears a large ring on his right hand." }, { "name": "The German-Russian poet", "aliases": [ "the German poet" ], "description": "An unnamed Russian poet from a German family who translates German verse and cultivates the patronage of influential people. He attends the Epanchins’ gathering and listens with a spiteful smile to Muishkin’s speech." }, { "name": "Nicolai Andreevitch Pavlicheff", "aliases": [ "Mr. Pavlicheff", "Nicolai Andreevitch" ], "description": "A wealthy man who supported Muishkin in Switzerland and arranged for his treatment there. Ivan Petrovitch says Pavlicheff was kind and worthy, but also reports that he abandoned public service, became a Jesuit, and tried to leave property to the order." }, { "name": "The elder old lady at Zlatoverhoff", "aliases": [ "the elder sister" ], "description": "An unnamed older woman, a cousin of Pavlicheff, who cared for Muishkin as a sick child at Zlatoverhoff. Ivan Petrovitch recalls that she was severe with him." }, { "name": "The younger old lady at Zlatoverhoff", "aliases": [ "the younger sister" ], "description": "An unnamed younger woman, a cousin of Pavlicheff, who cared for Muishkin as a sick child at Zlatoverhoff. Ivan Petrovitch remembers her as kind to the prince." }, { "name": "Abbot Gurot", "aliases": [ "the Jesuit abbot" ], "description": "A Jesuit abbot who, according to Ivan Petrovitch, influenced Nicolai Andreevitch Pavlicheff to convert to Roman Catholicism. Gurot and others tried to make a claim under Pavlicheff’s will." }, { "name": "Countess K.", "aliases": [ "the countess" ], "description": "An unnamed countess who joined a Roman convent abroad the previous year, an example cited in the conversation about conversions to Catholicism." }, { "name": "Countess Levitsky", "aliases": [ "the beautiful Countess Levitsky" ], "description": "A beautiful countess whom the old dignitary once ran away with in Vienna in 1832, according to Princess Bielokonski." }, { "name": "The man who reprieved Muishkin’s friend", "aliases": [ "the man reprieved from execution" ], "description": "An unnamed man whom Muishkin met during treatment with Professor Schneider. Sentenced to death for a political crime, he spent fifteen to twenty minutes believing he would die before being reprieved, and later regretted not making good use of his life." }, { "name": "Kostia Lebedeff", "aliases": [ "Kostia" ], "description": "Lebedeff’s son, who accompanies Colia while they buy a hedgehog and hatchet with money entrusted to them by Petroff. He is shy about entering the Epanchins’ home." }, { "name": "Petroff", "aliases": [ "the schoolmate" ], "description": "A schoolmate of Colia and Kostia who gives them money to buy Schlosser’s History. They spend it instead on a hedgehog and hatchet, then take the purchases to him." }, { "name": "Schlosser", "aliases": [ "Schlosser" ], "description": "The author of a history book that Petroff asked Colia and Kostia to buy for him." }, { "name": "The hedgehog", "aliases": [ "the hedgehog" ], "description": "An individually owned hedgehog that Colia and Kostia buy with Petroff’s money. Aglaya buys it from them and sends it to Muishkin as a personal token." }, { "name": "Kapiton", "aliases": [ "the Kapiton fellow" ], "description": "A man whose existence and story General Ivolgin had discussed with Hippolyte. The passage does not establish whether Kapiton is real." }, { "name": "Gogol", "aliases": [ "Gogol" ], "description": "The writer whom Colia identifies as the source of a line General Ivolgin recalls from Dead Souls." }, { "name": "Napoleon", "aliases": [ "Napoleon" ], "description": "The French emperor, whom General Ivolgin claims to have met as a child in Moscow in 1812 and later served as a page. Ivolgin recounts intimate conversations and political episodes with him." }, { "name": "De Bazancour", "aliases": [ "Napoleon’s page" ], "description": "A page in Napoleon’s service who, according to General Ivolgin’s story, died during the campaign; Ivolgin says he was appointed to the vacant post." }, { "name": "Davoust", "aliases": [ "Davoust" ], "description": "A French general and marshal whom General Ivolgin claims was often with Napoleon in Moscow. Ivolgin says he and Napoleon discussed plans for the army’s winter occupation of the Kremlin." }, { "name": "Roustan", "aliases": [ "Roustan" ], "description": "A man in Napoleon’s service whom General Ivolgin claims accompanied Napoleon on rides and slept in the next room." }, { "name": "Constant", "aliases": [ "Constant" ], "description": "A man in Napoleon’s service whom General Ivolgin says was away carrying a letter to Empress Josephine." }, { "name": "Empress Josephine", "aliases": [ "Josephine" ], "description": "Napoleon’s wife, whom General Ivolgin claims Napoleon wrote to after the boy urged him to do so." }, { "name": "Emperor Alexander", "aliases": [ "Alexander" ], "description": "The Russian emperor whom General Ivolgin claims Napoleon repeatedly petitioned for peace during the 1812 campaign." }, { "name": "King of Rome", "aliases": [ "Napoleon’s son" ], "description": "Napoleon’s son, whom General Ivolgin says Napoleon believed might grieve for him." }, { "name": "King of Prussia", "aliases": [ "the King of Prussia" ], "description": "A king whom General Ivolgin claims Napoleon said he hated during a private conversation." }, { "name": "Austrian Emperor", "aliases": [ "the Austrian Emperor" ], "description": "An emperor whom General Ivolgin claims Napoleon said he hated during a private conversation." }, { "name": "Empress Katherine", "aliases": [ "the Empress Katherine" ], "description": "A Russian empress whose portrait General Ivolgin claims Napoleon paused to admire in a palace in Moscow." }, { "name": "Charasse", "aliases": [ "Charasse" ], "description": "An author of a book about Napoleon and the Waterloo campaign, discussed by Muishkin and General Ivolgin." }, { "name": "The general’s mother", "aliases": [ "his mother" ], "description": "An unnamed woman whom General Ivolgin says was in Moscow when the French arrived in 1812 and was slow to leave the city." }, { "name": "The general’s sister", "aliases": [ "his sister" ], "description": "An unnamed sister of General Ivolgin. He claims Napoleon wrote an inscription in her album when she was three years old." }, { "name": "Tchernosvitoff", "aliases": [ "Tchernosvitoff" ], "description": "A person whom Lebedeff claims made his wooden leg, part of the elaborate story about losing a leg in Moscow in 1812." }, { "name": "Eropegoff", "aliases": [ "Eroshka Eropegoff" ], "description": "A man whom General Ivolgin claims was like a brother to him for eleven months and for whom he fought a duel. Ivolgin says Eropegoff later died in battle." }, { "name": "Maria Petrovna", "aliases": [ "Maria Petrovna" ], "description": "A woman named by General Ivolgin as he begins an attempted confession to Colia, but he suffers a stroke before explaining who she is." }, { "name": "The old soldier who saw the French enter Moscow", "aliases": [ "the old soldier" ], "description": "An unnamed soldier whose account of witnessing the French entry into Moscow is lent to General Ivolgin by Muishkin. The general dismisses it as crude and unreliable." }, { "name": "The French chasseur", "aliases": [ "the chasseur" ], "description": "An unnamed French soldier in Lebedeff’s story, said to have shot off one of Lebedeff’s legs with a cannon in 1812." }, { "name": "Napoleon’s orderly", "aliases": [ "the orderly" ], "description": "An unnamed orderly whom General Ivolgin says accompanied Napoleon on rides, along with another orderly." }, { "name": "The French soldier who fed a baby in Moscow", "aliases": [ "the French soldier" ], "description": "An unnamed French soldier in an autobiographical account cited by Muishkin, said to have fed the author bread when he was a baby in Moscow in 1812." }, { "name": "Ferdishenko", "aliases": [ "Ferd-Ferd" ], "description": "A poor-mannered, would-be witty young clerk and former lodger in Gania’s family home. Lebedeff suspects him of stealing four hundred roubles after he leaves the prince’s house early, though the evidence is circumstantial." }, { "name": "Nastasia’s letters to Aglaya", "aliases": [ "the three letters" ], "description": "Three letters from Nastasia Philipovna to Aglaya, written over the course of a week. They declare Nastasia’s love for Muishkin, urge Aglaya to marry him, and describe Nastasia’s fear and suspicions about Rogojin." }, { "name": "Gania’s family", "aliases": [ "the Ivolgins" ], "description": "Gania’s parents and siblings, including his mother Nina Alexandrovna and sister Varvara. Gania is angry and ashamed over his father’s behavior, while Varvara fears the resulting scandal will hurt their mother." }, { "name": "Aglaya’s sisters", "aliases": [ "the Epanchin girls" ], "description": "Alexandra and Adelaida Epanchin, who are close to one another and puzzled by Aglaya’s behavior toward Muishkin. They report that she is formally engaged to the prince, and say the family is preparing for a gathering where the engagement may be announced." }, { "name": "The maid at the Epanchin household", "aliases": [ "the maid" ], "description": "An unnamed servant who tells Lizabetha Prokofievna that Aglaya went into the park before seven in the morning." }, { "name": "The maid at Wilkin’s", "aliases": [ "Wilkin’s maid" ], "description": "An unnamed maid who tells Lebedeff that someone had been hammering at the door at Wilkin’s around eight, but she did not let him in." }, { "name": "Wilkin", "aliases": [ "Ferdishenko’s friend" ], "description": "An unnamed tipsy man whom Ferdishenko says he is visiting. Lebedeff goes to Wilkin’s address but finds no trace of Ferdishenko." }, { "name": "The captain’s widow", "aliases": [ "the widow" ], "description": "An unnamed widow whom General Ivolgin visits and is said to be infatuated with. Lebedeff plans to catch him at her house in hopes of shaming him into better behavior." }, { "name": "Count rescued by General Ivolgin", "aliases": [ "the count" ], "description": "An unnamed count in a story General Ivolgin tells Lebedeff. Ivolgin claims he saved the count from a burning house after being suspected of stealing money from him." }, { "name": "The man who warned Muishkin about Ferdishenko", "aliases": [ "the informant" ], "description": "An unnamed person who reportedly told Muishkin that care was needed in Ferdishenko’s presence. The text does not establish who gave him this information." }, { "name": "Podkoleosin", "aliases": [ "Podkoleosin" ], "description": "A character in Gogol’s comedy The Wedding, cited by the narrator as a type of man who longs to escape marriage at the last moment." }, { "name": "Georges Dandin", "aliases": [ "Georges Dandin" ], "description": "A character invoked by the narrator as a type of husband who regrets the consequences of his marriage." }, { "name": "Pirogoff", "aliases": [ "Pirogoff" ], "description": "A character in Gogol’s writing, cited by the narrator as an example of a foolish man certain of his own genius." }, { "name": "Molière", "aliases": [ "Molière" ], "description": "A playwright whom the narrator invokes in connection with the character Georges Dandin." }, { "name": "Rothschild", "aliases": [ "Rothschild" ], "description": "A wealthy person whom Gania uses as a standard of ambition when mocking Ptitsin’s modest financial goals." }, { "name": "The count who suspected General Ivolgin", "aliases": [ "the count" ], "description": "An unnamed count whom General Ivolgin claims suspected him of stealing five hundred thousand roubles, then embraced him after he supposedly saved the count from a fire." }, { "name": "Aglaya’s wedding guests", "aliases": [ "the Epanchins’ party" ], "description": "The attendees expected at a gathering at the Epanchins’ home, where Muishkin is to be presented to Princess Bielokonski and Aglaya’s engagement may be announced." }, { "name": "The priest in Nastasia’s imagined painting", "aliases": [ "Christ" ], "description": "The Saviour as Nastasia imagines him in a painting, seated with a little child at sunset. She uses the image to describe the innocence and perfection she sees in Aglaya." }, { "name": "The little child in Nastasia’s imagined painting", "aliases": [ "the child" ], "description": "An unnamed child in Nastasia’s imagined painting of Christ, leaning against his knee and gazing up at him." }, { "name": "Bachmatoff", "aliases": [ "Peter Matveyevitch Bachmatoff", "the councillor of state’s nephew" ], "description": "A university student and Hippolyte’s former schoolmate, whose uncle is a councillor of state. He helps secure a new post and financial assistance for the impoverished doctor Hippolyte befriended, and discusses the value of individual acts of charity with Hippolyte." }, { "name": "The impoverished doctor Hippolyte helped", "aliases": [ "the provincial doctor", "the medical man" ], "description": "An unnamed former provincial doctor who lost his civil-service post after local intrigues and came to Petersburg to appeal for help. With Bachmatoff’s assistance, he receives a new post, travelling expenses, and help to start over; he departs with his wife." }, { "name": "The doctor’s wife", "aliases": [ "the pale-looking woman" ], "description": "An unnamed, sickly woman, wife of the impoverished doctor. She and her husband receive help to start over and leave Petersburg." }, { "name": "The old general who helped convicts", "aliases": [ "the old general", "the civil general" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly state counsellor and civil general in Moscow who devoted his life to visiting convicts bound for Siberia. He treated them as brothers, offered practical help and devotional books, and was remembered even by hardened criminals." }, { "name": "The man who returned from Siberia", "aliases": [ "the man I knew" ], "description": "An unnamed man Hippolyte knew who had been to Siberia and returned. He reported that hardened convicts remembered the old general who visited them on their journey." }, { "name": "The murderer who remembered the old general", "aliases": [ "the murderer" ], "description": "An unnamed hardened criminal, described in Hippolyte’s example as having killed a dozen people. Even he might unexpectedly wonder whether the old general who had helped convicts was still alive." }, { "name": "The man who stabbed six children", "aliases": [ "the child-murderer" ], "description": "An unnamed criminal in Hippolyte’s example who stabbed six children for amusement. Hippolyte mentions him as an example of how even the most hardened convict might remember the old general’s kindness." }, { "name": "Surikoff", "aliases": [ "Surikoff" ], "description": "A poor, meek man who lived above Hippolyte’s family. Hippolyte once insulted him by smiling at the body of his child who had died from hunger and cold; Surikoff quietly ordered him out. During a feverish delirium, Hippolyte imagines Surikoff finding a million roubles and making a golden coffin for the child." }, { "name": "Surikoff’s child", "aliases": [ "the child" ], "description": "An unnamed child of Surikoff who died from hunger and cold. Hippolyte once behaved cruelly at the sight of the child’s body." }, { "name": "Hippolyte’s mother", "aliases": [ "his mother" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who appears in Hippolyte’s dream and calls his deceased dog Norma into the room." }, { "name": "Matreona", "aliases": [ "the maid who brings Hippolyte tea" ], "description": "An unnamed household servant who is instructed to bring Hippolyte tea if he has not opened his door by nine in the morning. She confirms that the doors were locked overnight, making Rogojin’s apparent nocturnal visit impossible." }, { "name": "The monstrous reptile in Hippolyte’s dream", "aliases": [ "the monster", "the beast" ], "description": "A fictional, venomous creature in Hippolyte’s dream, resembling a shelled scorpion or reptile. It frightens him and bites Norma’s tongue when she attacks it." }, { "name": "Norma", "aliases": [ "Hippolyte’s dog", "the Newfoundland" ], "description": "Hippolyte’s deceased Newfoundland, who appears in his dream and attacks a monstrous reptile that frightens him." }, { "name": "The young mother in Muishkin’s recollection", "aliases": [ "the woman in his dream" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who appears in Muishkin’s troubled dream on the park bench. Her face is filled with remorse and horror, and she silently beckons him to follow her." }, { "name": "The painting of Christ taken down from the cross", "aliases": [ "the picture" ], "description": "A painting in one of Rogojin’s gloomy rooms depicting Christ’s tortured, dead body without idealized beauty. Its stark image prompts Hippolyte to reflect on death, nature, and the disciples’ faith." }, { "name": "Gilbert", "aliases": [ "the French poet" ], "description": "A poet whose French verse about friends witnessing one’s beauty and death is quoted by Hippolyte. Hippolyte interprets its apparent blessing as concealing bitterness and disappointment." }, { "name": "Meyer", "aliases": [ "Meyer’s wall" ], "description": "A person whose wall Hippolyte invokes as a visible reminder of his approaching death. The passage gives no further identification." }, { "name": "Lebedeff’s younger daughter", "aliases": [ "the girl of thirteen", "the dragon-fly" ], "description": "Lebedeff’s unnamed thirteen-year-old daughter, dressed in mourning. During the birthday gathering she sleeps in the next room." }, { "name": "Lebedeff’s eldest son", "aliases": [ "Lebedeff’s nephew", "the young man on the sofa", "Lebedeff’s sister’s son", "Vladimir Doktorenko" ], "description": "An unnamed university student and railway employee, son of Lebedeff’s widowed sister Anisia. At the prince’s birthday gathering, he listens intently to the conversation." }, { "name": "Prince Muishkin’s birthday guests", "aliases": [ "the company on the verandah" ], "description": "A gathering of the prince’s acquaintances at his villa, including Hippolyte, Lebedeff and his household, Burdovsky, Gania, Ptitsin, Keller, Colia, Evgenie Pavlovitch, Rogojin, and General Ivolgin. They discuss religion, progress, and the “springs of life,” then gather to hear Hippolyte read his sealed manuscript." }, { "name": "The president", "aliases": [ "the general" ], "description": "General Ivolgin, presiding over the guests’ discussion at Muishkin’s birthday gathering. He dismisses Lebedeff’s account of the medieval cannibal as nonsense." }, { "name": "General Gregory Semeonovitch Burmistroff", "aliases": [ "Gregory Semeonovitch Burmistroff", "the interpreter of the Apocalypse" ], "description": "A deceased man whom General Ivolgin recalls as a genuine interpreter of the Apocalypse. Ivolgin says Burmistroff’s sermons deeply impressed generals and made ladies faint." }, { "name": "The medieval cannibal", "aliases": [ "the cannibal", "Lebedeff’s client" ], "description": "An unnamed man in Lebedeff’s story who supposedly confessed to killing and eating sixty monks and several children during the famines of the Middle Ages. Lebedeff mockingly frames his conduct as a legal case, claiming remorse ultimately led him to denounce himself." }, { "name": "The monks eaten by the medieval cannibal", "aliases": [ "the sixty monks" ], "description": "Unnamed monks whom Lebedeff’s medieval cannibal supposedly killed and ate during years of famine." }, { "name": "The children eaten by the medieval cannibal", "aliases": [ "the six children" ], "description": "Unnamed children whom Lebedeff’s medieval cannibal supposedly killed and ate, according to his story." }, { "name": "Malthus", "aliases": [ "Malthus" ], "description": "A thinker whom Lebedeff calls a friend of humanity, while arguing that philanthropy without sound moral principles can harm people." }, { "name": "Voltaire", "aliases": [ "Voltaire" ], "description": "A writer whom Lebedeff invokes as an example of someone whose influence led people to mock the devil’s traditional appearance." }, { "name": "The unnamed young woman at Colomna", "aliases": [ "the consumptive young lady" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman with consumption whom Hippolyte says died suddenly while going to market, as an example of how quickly the illness can prove fatal." }, { "name": "Hippolyte’s mother’s friends", "aliases": [ "her friends" ], "description": "Unnamed visitors present in Hippolyte’s dream while his mother searches for the monstrous reptile." }, { "name": "Columbus", "aliases": [ "Christopher Columbus" ], "description": "The explorer Hippolyte cites as an example of a person happiest during the pursuit of discovery rather than after achieving it." }, { "name": "Nastasia Philipovna’s portrait", "aliases": [ "the portrait", "the photograph" ], "description": "A portrait Nastasia Philipovna gives to Gania. Muishkin is struck by its beauty and the suffering, pride, disdain, and simplicity he perceives in her face." }, { "name": "Hippolyte’s mother’s children", "aliases": [ "the children" ], "description": "Hippolyte’s unnamed younger siblings, whom his mother kept quiet while he was ill." }, { "name": "Terentich", "aliases": [ "Terentich" ], "description": "An unnamed man in Hippolyte’s account who is found drunk in a tiny room while Hippolyte searches for the owner of a lost pocketbook." }, { "name": "The old peasant woman at Terentich’s lodging", "aliases": [ "the old woman" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly woman who opens the door at Terentich’s lodging and leads Hippolyte to the next room." }, { "name": "The doctor’s newborn baby", "aliases": [ "the baby" ], "description": "An unnamed infant, scarcely three weeks old, born to the impoverished doctor and his wife." }, { "name": "The doctor’s little girl", "aliases": [ "the little girl" ], "description": "An unnamed daughter of the impoverished doctor, about three years old, who lies on a sofa during Hippolyte’s visit." }, { "name": "Bachmatoff’s uncle", "aliases": [ "the councillor of state" ], "description": "An unnamed councillor of state connected to the civil-service matters in the doctor’s appeal. His nephew Bachmatoff may be able to persuade him to help." }, { "name": "The man who dropped the pocketbook", "aliases": [ "the pocketbook’s owner" ], "description": "An unnamed man in a shabby summer dust-coat who drops a pocketbook containing the impoverished doctor’s papers. Hippolyte follows him to his lodging and returns it." }, { "name": "Old man who tried to pick up the pocketbook", "aliases": [ "the old wretch in a long kaftan" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly man who rushes to pick up the dropped pocketbook before Hippolyte, then disappears when Hippolyte takes it." }, { "name": "Kislorodoff", "aliases": [ "the medical student" ], "description": "A medical student whom Hippolyte consults about his consumption. A self-described Nationalist, atheist, and Nihilist, he estimates Hippolyte may have about a month to live." }, { "name": "Hippolyte’s doctor", "aliases": [ "Doctor B.", "B." ], "description": "A doctor whom Hippolyte had falsely claimed told him he had only a fortnight to live; Hippolyte admits the doctor had not even examined him." }, { "name": "The young man accused of murdering six people", "aliases": [ "the criminal", "the young fellow" ], "description": "An unnamed young man who murdered six people. A defense lawyer argued that the crime arose naturally from his poverty; Evgenie and Muishkin debate what that argument says about distorted ideas of right and wrong." }, { "name": "Lawyer who defended the murderer", "aliases": [ "the counsel for the defence", "the barrister" ], "description": "An unnamed barrister who defended a young man accused of murdering six people, arguing that the man’s poverty made the crime natural. Evgenie presents the defense as an example of a perverted view of right and wrong." }, { "name": "Gentleman who insulted Nastasia", "aliases": [ "the young officer", "Evgenie Pavlovitch’s friend" ], "description": "An unnamed young officer and confidant of Evgenie who says Nastasia ought to be whipped. She strikes him across the face with a cane; he then moves toward Muishkin, apparently to ask his name, and leaves." }, { "name": "Nastasia’s middle-aged follower", "aliases": [ "the respectable-looking man", "the parvenu" ], "description": "An unnamed middle-aged man of respectable appearance, marked as a parvenu, who accompanies Nastasia at the Vauxhall. He disappears while Nastasia confronts Evgenie." }, { "name": "Nastasia’s younger follower", "aliases": [ "the younger man" ], "description": "An unnamed, younger and less respectable-looking man accompanying Nastasia at the Vauxhall. He stands aside laughing when she strikes the officer." }, { "name": "Man whose cane Nastasia took", "aliases": [ "the young man with a thin cane" ], "description": "An unnamed young man standing near Nastasia at the Vauxhall, whose thin cane she seizes to strike the officer who insulted her." }, { "name": "Young officer Moloftsoff", "aliases": [ "Lieutenant Moloftsoff", "the captain" ], "description": "A young officer and Evgenie Pavlovitch’s friend who tries to engage Aglaya in conversation at the Vauxhall. After Nastasia strikes him with a cane, he is expected to challenge Muishkin because the prince restrained him; Keller offers to act as Muishkin’s second." }, { "name": "Evgenie Pavlovitch’s uncle", "aliases": [ "the head of a civil service department" ], "description": "An unnamed, wealthy man who heads a civil service department and is Evgenie Pavlovitch’s uncle. He shoots himself at age seventy, and a substantial sum of government money is reported missing; Nastasia publicly announces the news." }, { "name": "Nastasia’s two other companions", "aliases": [ "the two other ladies" ], "description": "Two unnamed women among the three ladies leading Nastasia’s party at the Vauxhall. They are described as remarkably lovely." }, { "name": "Lebedeff’s daughters", "aliases": [ "his daughters" ], "description": "Lebedeff’s unnamed daughters, who join the birthday gathering at Muishkin’s villa. One of them is preparing supper." }, { "name": "Muishkin’s new acquaintances at the Vauxhall", "aliases": [ "the young officer and other young men" ], "description": "Several unnamed young men who appear to be close acquaintances of Evgenie Pavlovitch at the Vauxhall. One is a handsome, good-natured, talkative officer who tries to attract Aglaya’s attention; another, Lieutenant Moloftsoff, later insults Nastasia." }, { "name": "Pouschkin", "aliases": [ "Pouschkin", "Pushkin" ], "description": "The poet whom Aglaya cites as having died in a duel. Mrs. Epanchin earlier asked for a copy of his work." }, { "name": "Lermontoff", "aliases": [ "Lermontoff" ], "description": "A writer whose work Bal Masque is cited by Colia as being based on the notion that a man must avenge an insult with blood or demand an apology." }, { "name": "Marfa Borisovna", "aliases": [ "Madame Terentieff" ], "description": "A widow of about forty and mother of four children, including Hippolyte. She is now living in poverty at Pskoff; Hippolyte fears she will corrupt his younger siblings." }, { "name": "Luboff", "aliases": [ "Lubotchka", "Lebedeff’s little one" ], "description": "Lebedeff’s infant daughter, born shortly before her mother Helena died. She is delicate and prone to convulsions, and Vera brings her on visits to Muishkin." }, { "name": "Agatha", "aliases": [ "Keller’s Agatha" ], "description": "A person Keller says he would like to give a present to, though he adds that she does not deserve one. The passage gives no further identification." }, { "name": "The companion in Nastasia’s carriage", "aliases": [ "the other lady in the carriage" ], "description": "An unnamed woman seated with Nastasia Philipovna in the carriage when Nastasia calls to Evgenie Pavlovitch. Her identity is not established." }, { "name": "Girl accompanying Nastasia", "aliases": [ "the girl of sixteen", "the distant relative of Daria Alexeyevna" ], "description": "An unnamed sixteen-year-old girl, a distant relative of Daria Alexeyevna, who sometimes rides with Nastasia. She sings well, bringing attention to the household." }, { "name": "Gentleman who broke off his engagement", "aliases": [ "the gentleman on holiday" ], "description": "An unnamed man on holiday who broke off his engagement because of Nastasia Philipovna." }, { "name": "Old general who quarrelled with his son", "aliases": [ "the old general" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly general who quarrelled with his only son over Nastasia Philipovna." }, { "name": "Kupferof", "aliases": [ "Kupferof" ], "description": "A person whose IOUs Nastasia says Rogojin has bought up on Evgenie Pavlovitch’s behalf. The passage gives no further information about Kupferof." }, { "name": "Biscup", "aliases": [ "Biscup" ], "description": "A person whose IOUs Nastasia says may also be settled. The passage gives no further information about Biscup." }, { "name": "Pavel?", "aliases": [], "description": "A person whose IOUs Nastasia says may also be settled. The passage gives no further information about this person." }, { "name": "Bourdaloue", "aliases": [ "the French archbishop Bourdaloue" ], "description": "A French archbishop whom Keller admires and discussed with Lebedeff late into the night." }, { "name": "Russian liberal", "aliases": [ "the Russian liberal" ], "description": "A generalized figure in Evgenie Pavlovitch’s argument, described as rejecting Russia itself while claiming to be liberal. No individual Russian liberal is identified." }, { "name": "Lomonosoff", "aliases": [ "Lomonosoff" ], "description": "A writer whom Evgenie Pavlovitch names as one of only three Russian authors he considers genuinely national." }, { "name": "Mrs. Grundy", "aliases": [ "Mrs. Grundy" ], "description": "A personified symbol of conventional social disapproval, whom Hippolyte says would not be angry with a dying man for speaking freely." }, { "name": "The perfected human being", "aliases": [ "the only human being recognized as perfect" ], "description": "An unnamed figure whom Hippolyte says nature presented to humanity as perfect, giving him a mission whose words caused much bloodshed. The passage does not name this person." }, { "name": "Lebedeff’s sister-in-law", "aliases": [ "his sister-in-law" ], "description": "An unnamed woman with whom Nastasia is staying in Petersburg after fleeing Rogojin. She is related to Lebedeff by marriage." }, { "name": "Schneider", "aliases": [ "Professor Schneider" ], "description": "A Swiss professor who treated Muishkin for epilepsy and supported him after Pavlicheff died. The article falsely portrays him as a charlatan who sent Muishkin home for lack of payment; Muishkin says Schneider was paid six hundred roubles a year for the first three years." }, { "name": "Pavlicheff’s former beloved", "aliases": [ "the serf-girl" ], "description": "An unnamed serf-girl whom Pavlicheff loved in his youth and would have married, according to Gania’s account. She died suddenly; her sister was Burdovsky’s mother, whom Pavlicheff later took under his care." }, { "name": "Burdovsky’s mother", "aliases": [ "Burdovsky’s mother", "the invalid mother" ], "description": "An unnamed woman from Pskoff, sister of the serf-girl Pavlicheff loved. Pavlicheff cared for her from childhood and later supported her after her marriage; she is now ill and poor, and Gania says she spoke gratefully of her son’s support." }, { "name": "Burdovsky’s father", "aliases": [ "Mr. Burdovsky", "the land-surveyor" ], "description": "An unnamed land-surveyor who married Burdovsky’s mother when she was twenty. He left his occupation for unsuccessful commercial speculation, took to drink, and died eight years after their marriage." }, { "name": "Madame Zoubkoff", "aliases": [ "Madame Zoubkoff" ], "description": "An intimate friend of Gania’s sister, Varvara Alexandrovna Ptitsin. She provides Gania with an old letter from Pavlicheff that helps disprove Burdovsky’s claimed parentage." }, { "name": "Timofei Fedorovitch Viazovkin", "aliases": [ "Timofei Fedorovitch Viazovkin" ], "description": "A retired colonel and one of Pavlicheff’s oldest friends. He gives Gania two letters from Pavlicheff that help establish when Pavlicheff was abroad." }, { "name": "Tchebaroff", "aliases": [ "Tchebaroff" ], "description": "A lawyer who acted as Burdovsky’s agent in the claim against Muishkin. He obtained a 250-rouble payment, of which 150 roubles were said to cover travel expenses; Gania concludes that he saw the case as a way to profit from Muishkin’s generosity." }, { "name": "Ivan Fedorovitch Epanchin", "aliases": [ "Ivan Fedorovitch", "General Epanchin" ], "description": "General Epanchin, husband of Lizabetha Prokofievna. He is angered by the visitors and tries to justify his wife’s decision to stay with the ailing Hippolyte." }, { "name": "The prince’s father", "aliases": [ "Nicolai Lvovitch Muishkin", "Muishkin’s father" ], "description": "Prince Muishkin’s deceased father, an army officer. Keller’s article falsely accuses him of gambling away company funds and excessively flogging a subordinate; Muishkin firmly denies both charges." }, { "name": "The rich merchant who left the inheritance", "aliases": [ "the elder brother of Paparchin" ], "description": "A wealthy merchant and Old Believer, a maternal relation of Muishkin, who died childless and left a fortune of several million roubles to the prince." }, { "name": "Kryloff", "aliases": [ "Kryloff" ], "description": "A fable writer whose “Cloud” is invoked in Keller’s article as an image for Fortune showering wealth upon Muishkin." }, { "name": "Governesses hired by Pavlicheff", "aliases": [ "the pretty governesses" ], "description": "Unnamed governesses whom Keller’s article claims Pavlicheff recruited in Paris to educate Muishkin. Muishkin says they did not exist and that this part of the article is false." }, { "name": "Pavlicheff’s son’s mother’s husband", "aliases": [ "the generous husband" ], "description": "An unnamed man of noble character who married the poor, educated serf-girl whom Pavlicheff had seduced. He raised Burdovsky as his own son and refused Pavlicheff’s financial help." }, { "name": "Young man who murdered six people", "aliases": [ "the murderer" ], "description": "An unnamed man defended by a lawyer who argued that his poverty made murdering six people to rob them understandable. Evgenie Pavlovitch cites the case to mock excuses based on need." }, { "name": "Prudhon", "aliases": [ "Prudhon" ], "description": "A thinker whom Evgenie Pavlovitch cites as having upheld the principle that might is right." }, { "name": "Botkine", "aliases": [ "Botkine" ], "description": "A doctor who Hippolyte says predicted he would die within a fortnight." }, { "name": "Diogenes", "aliases": [ "Diogenes" ], "description": "An ancient figure invoked in Keller’s article as a comparison for searching unsuccessfully for Muishkin’s equal." }, { "name": "Countess du Barry", "aliases": [ "Comtesse du Barry" ], "description": "A historical countess whom Lebedeff says rose from a disreputable life to become a powerful royal favourite and was later guillotined. Her name recurs in Muishkin’s thoughts as he tries to make sense of Lebedeff." }, { "name": "Feodor", "aliases": [ "the servant sent to buy Pushkin" ], "description": "An unnamed servant of the Epanchin household whom Mrs. Epanchin suggests sending to Petersburg to buy a copy of Pushkin." }, { "name": "Nastasia Philipovna’s landlady", "aliases": [ "Madame Filisoff", "the lady of the house" ], "description": "An unnamed landlady at Nastasia’s Petersburg lodging, about forty, with a cunning face and piercing eyes. She tells Muishkin that Nastasia has gone to stay with Daria Alexeyevna and agrees to pass along his name." }, { "name": "Lihachof", "aliases": [ "Lihachof" ], "description": "A man in debtor’s prison with whom Lebedeff spent time after his father’s death; Lebedeff says he knew Nastasia Philipovna through him." }, { "name": "Gorsky", "aliases": [ "Gorsky" ], "description": "A man Lebedeff’s nephew reportedly cited when describing a radical group; Muishkin calls him an exception to the nephew’s account." }, { "name": "Daniloff", "aliases": [ "Daniloff" ], "description": "A man Lebedeff’s nephew reportedly cited when describing a radical group; Muishkin calls him an exception to the nephew’s account." }, { "name": "The four men claiming an inheritance", "aliases": [ "Burdovsky’s delegation", "the visitors" ], "description": "A group of four young men who arrive at Lebedeff’s villa to press Antip Burdovsky’s claim against Muishkin. The identified members are Burdovsky, Vladimir Doktorenko, Keller, and Hippolyte Terentieff." }, { "name": "Helena", "aliases": [ "Lebedeff’s wife" ], "description": "Lebedeff’s late wife, who died five weeks before the events in this passage while giving birth to Luboff." }, { "name": "Anisia", "aliases": [ "Lebedeff’s sister" ], "description": "Lebedeff’s widowed sister and mother of his nephew. Lebedeff says he cared for her and her newborn son when they were poor." }, { "name": "Katia", "aliases": [ "the maid-servant", "Katia" ], "description": "A maid-servant at Nastasia’s home who was frightened by Rogojin’s disorderly party but let them in at Nastasia’s request. Rogojin says Nastasia gave her an expensive shawl." }, { "name": "Semen Rogojin", "aliases": [ "Semen Rogojin" ], "description": "Parfen Rogojin’s deceased father, a wealthy hereditary honourable citizen. He was harsh with Parfen and opposed his infatuation with Nastasia Philipovna; his portrait hangs in his former study, now Parfen’s." }, { "name": "Companion of Rogojin’s mother", "aliases": [ "the other old woman" ], "description": "An unnamed older woman in mourning who sits beside Rogojin’s mother, silently knitting and apparently serving as her companion." }, { "name": "Zaleshoff", "aliases": [ "Zaleshoff" ], "description": "A fashionable acquaintance who introduced Parfen Rogojin to Nastasia Philipovna and delivered the diamond earrings Rogojin bought for her. He told Muishkin on the train that Rogojin and Nastasia had renewed their marriage plans, and Rogojin says Nastasia called him in during their quarrel." }, { "name": "Zemtuznikoff", "aliases": [ "Zemtuznikoff" ], "description": "An officer whom Rogojin accuses of having an affair with Nastasia in Moscow, shortly before their planned wedding." }, { "name": "Lebedeff’s sister-in-law’s husband", "aliases": [ "the husband of Lebedeff’s sister-in-law" ], "description": "An unnamed man whom Lebedeff says Nastasia once ran away to in Moscow before she returned to Rogojin." }, { "name": "The cook at Lebedeff’s house", "aliases": [ "the cook" ], "description": "An unnamed cook who announces Muishkin to Lebedeff and leaves the room angrily after being called to interrupt his speech." }, { "name": "Former lieutenant and boxing teacher", "aliases": [ "the ex-lieutenant", "Rogojin’s follower" ], "description": "An unnamed former lieutenant, dismissed from service, who teaches boxing and used to follow Rogojin. Lebedeff’s nephew says he cheated him at cards and won his twenty roubles." }, { "name": "Old woman robbed of five hundred roubles", "aliases": [ "the old woman" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly woman who had been robbed of her life savings by a usurer. She asked Lebedeff’s nephew to take her case, but he instead defended the usurer, Zeidler, for a promised fee." }, { "name": "Zeidler", "aliases": [ "the usurer", "the Jew named Zeidler" ], "description": "A usurer who had taken five hundred roubles from an elderly woman. Lebedeff’s nephew defended him in court in exchange for a promised fee." }, { "name": "His Excellency Nil Alexeyovitch", "aliases": [ "Nil Alexeyovitch" ], "description": "A former superior of Lebedeff who asked him to explain prophecies about the Antichrist. He died eight days after their meeting, and Lebedeff’s acquaintance Peter Zakkaritch said Lebedeff had foretold his death." }, { "name": "Peter Zakkaritch", "aliases": [ "Peter Zakkaritch" ], "description": "An unnamed subordinate who conveyed Nil Alexeyovitch’s invitation to Lebedeff and later recalled the meeting, saying Lebedeff had foretold his death." }, { "name": "Two elderly peasant friends", "aliases": [ "the peasants" ], "description": "Two unnamed elderly men who had tea together at a provincial hotel. One, ordinarily not a thief, murdered the other for his silver watch while praying for forgiveness; the other was his victim." }, { "name": "The peasant who murdered his friend", "aliases": [ "the murderer" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly peasant who killed his old friend with a knife to steal a silver watch, crossing himself and praying as he did so." }, { "name": "The peasant murdered for his watch", "aliases": [ "the murdered friend" ], "description": "An unnamed elderly peasant, reportedly wealthy by local standards, who was killed by his friend for his silver watch." }, { "name": "Drunken soldier who sold Muishkin a cross", "aliases": [ "the soldier" ], "description": "An unnamed drunken-looking soldier whom Muishkin met in a provincial town. He sold the prince a tin cross, which Muishkin and Rogojin later exchanged for Rogojin’s gold cross." }, { "name": "Young mother with a baby", "aliases": [ "the poor woman", "the country-woman" ], "description": "An unnamed young woman carrying her six-week-old baby, whom Muishkin met near his hotel. When her baby smiled at her for the first time, she crossed herself and described God’s joy when a person first turns to Him in prayer." }, { "name": "Baby carried by the young mother", "aliases": [ "the baby" ], "description": "An unnamed six-week-old infant who smiles at its mother for the first time, prompting her reflection about God’s joy in a person’s first sincere prayer." }, { "name": "Nastasia Philipovna’s maid", "aliases": [ "the maid" ], "description": "An unnamed female servant at Nastasia’s home who opens the door and announces Muishkin to her mistress." }, { "name": "Lebedeff’s eldest son’s card-playing opponent", "aliases": [ "the rogue", "the card-sharper" ], "description": "An unnamed former lieutenant and boxing teacher, formerly one of Rogojin’s followers. He wins twenty roubles from Lebedeff’s nephew at cards." }, { "name": "General Sokolovitch", "aliases": [ "General Sokolovitch" ], "description": "An old comrade-in-arms of General Ivolgin who is said to live with his family in Petersburg. Ivolgin had taken Muishkin to the wrong household while trying to visit Sokolovitch’s family." }, { "name": "Paparchin", "aliases": [ "the Moscow merchant" ], "description": "The prince’s maternal grandfather, a Moscow merchant who died bankrupt. His elder brother was a wealthy merchant whose fortune eventually passed through the prince’s aunt to Muishkin." }, { "name": "Captain’s widow who enforced Ivolgin’s IOUs", "aliases": [ "the captain’s widow" ], "description": "An unnamed widow whose demands for payment on General Ivolgin’s IOUs led to his imprisonment for debt." }, { "name": "The old Pope’s adversary", "aliases": [ "the Emperor" ], "description": "An unnamed emperor in the historical account Nastasia read to Rogojin, who fasted and knelt outside a pope’s palace while vowing vengeance." }, { "name": "Roman Pope", "aliases": [ "the Pope of Rome", "the Pope" ], "description": "An unnamed pope in the historical account Nastasia read to Rogojin. He was angry with an emperor who came to his palace and knelt there." }, { "name": "The learned atheist Muishkin met on the train", "aliases": [ "the atheist" ], "description": "An unnamed, eminent and learned man whom Muishkin met on a train in the account he tells Rogojin. He did not believe in God and discussed atheism, though Muishkin felt he was not truly addressing the subject." }, { "name": "Samson", "aliases": [ "the butcher" ], "description": "The executioner said by Lebedeff to have guillotined Countess du Barry." }, { "name": "Young woman accused by the prince in his railway anecdote", "aliases": [ "the English girl" ], "description": "An unnamed English girl in a newspaper account of a railway quarrel resembling General Ivolgin’s story about Miss Smith and a poodle." }, { "name": "The Frenchman in the newspaper story", "aliases": [ "the Frenchman" ], "description": "An unnamed man in a newspaper anecdote whose reported railway quarrel with an English girl closely matches General Ivolgin’s story about himself, Miss Smith, and a poodle." }, { "name": "Afanasy Ivanovitch Totski", "aliases": [ "Totski", "Afanasy Ivanovitch" ], "description": "A wealthy, well-connected company director who took in the orphaned Nastasia Philipovna and arranged her education and comfortable living, while exploiting her when she was young. At her birthday gathering, she rejects his 75,000 roubles and publicly recounts his treatment of her. He later marries a French marquise." }, { "name": "German lady at Nastasia’s gathering", "aliases": [ "the German lady", "the silent German beauty" ], "description": "An unnamed, very pretty, well-dressed German woman at Nastasia’s gathering who does not understand Russian and hardly speaks. She disappears during the disturbance." }, { "name": "Old schoolmaster at Nastasia’s gathering", "aliases": [ "the old tutor", "the old toothless schoolmaster", "the old professor" ], "description": "An unnamed, toothless older tutor or schoolmaster invited to Nastasia’s gathering, whom she seems to love like a grandfather. He does not understand the unfolding events and trembles with fright, but stays beside her." }, { "name": "Rogojin’s companions", "aliases": [ "Rogojin’s troop", "Rogojin’s party", "Rogojin gang" ], "description": "A shifting group of individually unnamed men who accompany Rogojin, including merchants, a medical student, Lebedeff, an athlete proud of his enormous fist, a dissolute old man, and a retired sub-lieutenant who had been begging on the Nevsky. They bring Rogojin’s 100,000 roubles to Nastasia’s gathering and depart with him and Nastasia." }, { "name": "Athlete in Rogojin’s party", "aliases": [ "the athlete", "the boxer", "the gentleman proud of his fists" ], "description": "An individually identifiable, unnamed, very strong member of Rogojin’s party who boasts an enormous fist. He regards the newly joined beggar as a rival and retreats from Nastasia’s salon when he sees General Epanchin." }, { "name": "Beggar in Rogojin’s party", "aliases": [ "the beggar", "the retired sub-lieutenant" ], "description": "An individually identifiable, unnamed retired sub-lieutenant who joins Rogojin’s party while begging on the Nevsky. He tries to ingratiate himself with the athlete and leaves the salon with him when General Epanchin’s presence unsettles the group." }, { "name": "Dissolute old man in Rogojin’s party", "aliases": [ "the dissolute old man", "the hero of an ancient scandal" ], "description": "An unnamed old man who joins Rogojin’s party before the visit to Nastasia. A story is told that he once pawned his false teeth to fund a drinking binge and could never reclaim them." }, { "name": "Pasha", "aliases": [ "Pasha" ], "description": "An unnamed servant at Nastasia’s home. She is crying with Katia when Nastasia leaves, and Nastasia says she has set aside belongings for the two servants." }, { "name": "Martha", "aliases": [ "the cook" ], "description": "An unnamed cook in Nastasia’s household who runs in from the kitchen as Nastasia is leaving and is kissed goodbye." }, { "name": "Nastasia’s four young servants", "aliases": [ "the four girls" ], "description": "Four individually unnamed young female servants in Nastasia’s household who cry and kiss her hands as she leaves. Nastasia tells them not to think badly of her." }, { "name": "Platon Ordintzeff", "aliases": [ "Platon" ], "description": "A country gentleman who had recently been elected marshal of the nobility and was married to Anfisa Alexeyevna. Totski recounts that Platon desperately sought red camellias for her birthday ball and wept on Totski’s shoulder after Totski obtained them." }, { "name": "Anfisa Alexeyevna", "aliases": [ "Anfisa" ], "description": "Platon Ordintzeff’s young wife, whose birthday was celebrated with two balls. She wanted red camellias for effect; Totski’s bouquet won her gratitude and thwarted Peter Volhofskoi’s romantic hopes." }, { "name": "Peter Volhofskoi", "aliases": [ "Peter Volhofskoi", "Peter" ], "description": "A man who was desperately in love with Anfisa Alexeyevna and hoped to win her gratitude with a bouquet of red camellias. Totski secretly obtained the flowers first; Peter fainted, suffered brain fever and convulsions, later recovered, and went to the Crimea, where he was shot." }, { "name": "Countess Sotski", "aliases": [ "Countess Sotski" ], "description": "A countess who was expected at Anfisa Alexeyevna’s birthday ball with a bouquet of white camellias." }, { "name": "Sophia Bespalova", "aliases": [ "Sophia Bespalova" ], "description": "A woman who was expected at Anfisa Alexeyevna’s birthday ball with a bouquet of white camellias." }, { "name": "Merchant Trepalaf", "aliases": [ "Trepalaf", "the old merchant" ], "description": "A wealthy, grey-haired merchant in Ekshaisk who kept canaries and loved flowers. He gives Totski red camellias for Anfisa after Totski begs, and accepts a donation for the village hospital instead of payment." }, { "name": "French marquise", "aliases": [ "the marquise" ], "description": "An unnamed French noblewoman who marries Totski and takes him to Paris and Brittany." }, { "name": "Salaskin", "aliases": [ "Mr. Salaskin" ], "description": "A prominent solicitor who writes to Prince Muishkin in Switzerland about a substantial inheritance and helps locate the prince’s aunt so she can make her will. Ptitsin confirms the authenticity of his letter, though the estate is smaller than first believed and burdened with debts." }, { "name": "Prince Muishkin’s aunt", "aliases": [ "the prince’s aunt", "his mother’s sister" ], "description": "The prince’s maternal aunt, a poor woman living on charity who died of dropsy five months before the inheritance was discussed. Before her death, she engaged Salaskin to find her nephew and left him her newly acquired share of a large family fortune." }, { "name": "Sons of the rich merchant", "aliases": [ "the merchant’s two sons" ], "description": "Two unnamed sons and the only children of Paparchin’s wealthy elder brother. They died within the same month, shortly before their father." }, { "name": "General Epanchin’s secretary", "aliases": [ "the general’s secretary" ], "description": "An unnamed secretary whom Totski suspects may have a secret understanding with General Epanchin." }, { "name": "Captain Terentieff", "aliases": [ "Captain Terentieff" ], "description": "A deceased captain who served under General Ivolgin and was Marfa Borisovna’s husband. His widow’s IOUs eventually lead to Ivolgin’s imprisonment for debt." }, { "name": "Lenotchka", "aliases": [ "Lenotchka" ], "description": "Marfa Borisovna’s eight-year-old daughter and eldest child. She brings a cushion for the drunken General Ivolgin when he collapses asleep on the sofa." }, { "name": "Marfa Borisovna’s younger children", "aliases": [ "the orphans", "her children" ], "description": "Two unnamed younger children, a girl and a boy, who live with their widowed mother, Marfa Borisovna. Colia’s family helps provide for them." }, { "name": "Gania’s family maid", "aliases": [ "the maid", "the servant" ], "description": "An unnamed maid in Gania’s household who helps provide for the lodgers. She answers the drawing-room bell when summoned." }, { "name": "Parfen Rogojin’s companions", "aliases": [ "Rogojin’s troop", "Rogojin’s party" ], "description": "A group of individually unnamed men accompanying Rogojin, including a couple of young merchants, a man in a great-coat, a medical student, a little Pole, a continuously laughing small fat man, and a very tall stout man who trusts his strength. They back Rogojin during his confrontation at Gania’s home." }, { "name": "Two women at Gania’s front door", "aliases": [ "the “ladies”" ], "description": "Two unnamed women who put their heads in at the front door with Rogojin’s party but do not enter; Colia shuts and locks the door on them." }, { "name": "Timid young guest at Nastasia’s gathering", "aliases": [ "the timid and silent young man" ], "description": "An unnamed, shy and silent young man at Nastasia’s gathering. He asks whether the confession game might require someone to speak of something unsuitable in front of ladies." }, { "name": "Actress at Nastasia’s gathering", "aliases": [ "the loud woman", "the actress" ], "description": "An unnamed, lively actress of about forty at Nastasia’s gathering. She questions the proposed confession game and is identified by Nastasia as Daria Alexeyevna." }, { "name": "Anna Fedorovna", "aliases": [ "Anna Fedorovna" ], "description": "A person General Ivolgin says is associated with General Sokolovitch’s household. He says he has not called on or seen her lately." }, { "name": "Marie Alexandrovna", "aliases": [ "Marie Alexandrovna" ], "description": "A woman whom General Ivolgin mistakes for a member of General Sokolovitch’s household. A housekeeper says she has gone to her mother’s with Alexandra Michailovna." }, { "name": "Alexandra Michailovna", "aliases": [ "Alexandra Michailovna" ], "description": "A woman whom General Ivolgin expects to find at the Sokolovitch household. A housekeeper says she has gone with Marie Alexandrovna to her mother’s." }, { "name": "Koulakoff", "aliases": [ "Koulakoff" ], "description": "The name on the door of the household General Ivolgin mistakenly visits while claiming to be taking Muishkin to General Sokolovitch’s family." }, { "name": "Housekeeper or governess at the Koulakoff household", "aliases": [ "the woman of some forty years" ], "description": "An unnamed woman of about forty, dressed in sombre colours, who appears to keep house or work as a governess at the Koulakoff household. She corrects General Ivolgin’s assumption that the women he names are at home and agrees to deliver his message." }, { "name": "Footman at the Koulakoff household", "aliases": [ "the footman" ], "description": "An unnamed footman who tells General Ivolgin and Muishkin that the household is away." }, { "name": "Widow of Captain Terentieff", "aliases": [ "the widow of Captain Terentieff" ], "description": "An unnamed widow whom General Ivolgin claims is his friend and visits for comfort; her name is Marfa Borisovna. She expects money from him and angrily accuses him of exploiting her household." }, { "name": "Nikita", "aliases": [ "Nikifor" ], "description": "A faithful servant who attended General Ivolgin when he was a young ensign, managing his quarters and sometimes taking other people’s belongings to augment their household goods. Ivolgin recounts that Nikifor reminded him they had left a tureen at an old woman’s house." }, { "name": "Old lieutenant’s widow", "aliases": [ "the old lady", "the old woman" ], "description": "An unnamed eighty-year-old widow who once lodged the young General Ivolgin. He recalls accusing her of keeping his tureen, then realizing she was dying as he berated her; she had also been suspected of taking one of his fowls." }, { "name": "Niece of the old lieutenant’s widow", "aliases": [ "the niece" ], "description": "An unnamed niece who lived with the old lieutenant’s widow and bullied her before dying three years before the events General Ivolgin recounts." }, { "name": "Merchant who lodged the young Ivolgin", "aliases": [ "the merchant" ], "description": "An unnamed bearded merchant with a large family who lodged the young General Ivolgin after he left the old widow’s house." }, { "name": "Semeon Ivanovitch Ishenka", "aliases": [ "Semeon Ivanovitch Ishenka" ], "description": "A person whose country house hosted a dinner where Ferdishenko stole a three-rouble note from a writing table. The passage does not otherwise describe Ishenka." }, { "name": "Maria Ivanovna", "aliases": [ "Maria Ivanovna" ], "description": "The owner of the writing table from which Ferdishenko stole a three-rouble note at a country-house dinner. The passage does not otherwise identify her." }, { "name": "Daria", "aliases": [ "the housemaid" ], "description": "A housemaid suspected of stealing a three-rouble note after Ferdishenko took it from Maria Ivanovna’s writing table. She was dismissed despite being innocent; the passage does not establish whether she is the actress Daria Alexeyevna." }, { "name": "Ferdishenko’s servant Nikifor", "aliases": [ "Nikifor" ], "description": "A servant in General Ivolgin’s story about his youth. He faithfully managed Ivolgin’s quarters and took other people’s property to increase their household goods." }, { "name": "Nelaton", "aliases": [ "Nelaton" ], "description": "A surgeon whom General Ivolgin says sought safe conduct into besieged Sebastopol to treat his wounds." }, { "name": "Village children", "aliases": [ "the children", "Muishkin’s little companions" ], "description": "The children at the Swiss village school befriended Muishkin, who loved their company. They cared for the ostracized Marie and tearfully saw Muishkin off when he left for Russia." }, { "name": "Muishkin’s mother", "aliases": [ "the prince’s mother" ], "description": "Prince Muishkin’s unnamed mother, who died a few months after his father. General Ivolgin claims she died of grief, while the prince says he was told she died of a cold." }, { "name": "Miss Smith", "aliases": [ "the English governess", "the governess at Princess Bielokonski’s" ], "description": "An English governess employed by Princess Bielokonski. General Ivolgin claims she threw his cigar from a train window and slapped him after he threw her poodle out; Nastasia points out that the same story appeared in a newspaper as an incident involving a Frenchman." }, { "name": "Poodle", "aliases": [ "the little poodle" ], "description": "A poodle with a silver collar belonging to the women in General Ivolgin’s railway anecdote. Ivolgin claims he threw it from the train after its owner tossed his cigar out." }, { "name": "Captain Larionoff", "aliases": [ "Captain Larionoff" ], "description": "The commander of a company in General Ivolgin’s account of Prince Muishkin’s father’s court-martial. He had died before the command was temporarily handed to Muishkin’s father." }, { "name": "Kolpakoff", "aliases": [ "the soldier Kolpakoff" ], "description": "A soldier whom General Ivolgin says was accused of stealing leather and died after being reprimanded by Muishkin’s father, only to be found alive months later in another company. Nina Alexandrovna disputes the story." }, { "name": "Sergeant-major in the Kolpakoff inquiry", "aliases": [ "the sergeant-major" ], "description": "An unnamed sergeant-major whom General Ivolgin says witnessed Muishkin’s father reprimand Kolpakoff." }, { "name": "Corporal in the Kolpakoff inquiry", "aliases": [ "the corporal" ], "description": "An unnamed corporal whom General Ivolgin says witnessed Muishkin’s father reprimand Kolpakoff." }, { "name": "Barashkoff", "aliases": [ "Barashkoff" ], "description": "Nastasia Philipovna’s impoverished father, a gentleman of good descent whose estate was mortgaged. After his house burned and his wife died in the fire, he went mad and died in a town hospital." }, { "name": "Nastasia Philipovna’s mother", "aliases": [ "Barashkoff’s wife" ], "description": "An unnamed woman who died in a fire at the family home when Nastasia was a child. Her daughters survived." }, { "name": "Nastasia Philipovna’s younger sister", "aliases": [ "Barashkoff’s younger daughter" ], "description": "One of the two little girls adopted by Totski after their father’s ruin; she died of whooping cough, leaving Nastasia as the only surviving child." }, { "name": "Swiss governess", "aliases": [ "Nastasia Philipovna’s governess" ], "description": "An experienced, cultured Swiss woman hired by Totski to educate Nastasia. She lived with Nastasia for four years and later accompanied her to another of Totski’s estates." }, { "name": "Totski’s bailiff", "aliases": [ "the German bailiff" ], "description": "Totski’s German estate bailiff, whose children were brought up alongside Nastasia during her early years in Totski’s care." }, { "name": "Aleksey", "aliases": [ "Epanchin family footman", "liveried servant", "door-keeper", "study servant" ], "description": "A greyish, red-faced man-servant at the Epanchin home. Prince Muishkin spoke to him about the execution he had witnessed while waiting to see the general." }, { "name": "Abbot Pafnute", "aliases": [ "Pafnute" ], "description": "A fourteenth-century abbot who oversaw a monastery on the Volga and signed an edict at Oreol. Muishkin copied the abbot’s signature as a sample of his calligraphy." }, { "name": "Donkey", "aliases": [ "the donkey" ], "description": "A donkey Muishkin saw in the market at Basle after emerging from a period of mental torpor. The sight delighted him and helped lift his melancholy." }, { "name": "Man reprieved from execution", "aliases": [ "Muishkin’s friend" ], "description": "An unnamed man Muishkin met while he was under treatment with Professor Schneider. Sentenced to death by shooting for a political crime, he spent about fifteen to twenty minutes believing he would die before being reprieved; he later recalled that he failed to make good use of the life he regained." }, { "name": "Prisoner under treatment", "aliases": [ "the man in prison" ], "description": "An unnamed man treated alongside Muishkin by his professor who had lived twelve years in prison, suffered fits and melancholy, and once attempted suicide. His only companions there were spiders and a tree outside his grating." }, { "name": "Marie", "aliases": [ "Marie" ], "description": "A poor, consumptive village woman, daughter of an old tradeswoman, who was betrayed and abandoned by a traveling salesman. The villagers shunned and mistreated her, but Muishkin and the village children befriended her and cared for her before she died." }, { "name": "Marie’s mother", "aliases": [ "the old woman" ], "description": "An elderly, ill tradeswoman who sold small goods from her window. She rejected and shamed Marie after the young woman returned home, and died a couple of months later." }, { "name": "Traveling salesman", "aliases": [ "commercial traveller" ], "description": "An unnamed salesman who seduced and abandoned Marie, leaving her to walk home sick and destitute." }, { "name": "Marie’s village pastor", "aliases": [ "the parson", "the clergyman" ], "description": "An unnamed young pastor who publicly blamed and shamed Marie at her mother’s funeral. The village children protested his sermon by breaking his windows, and Muishkin stopped them." }, { "name": "Jules Thibaut", "aliases": [ "Thibaut", "the schoolmaster" ], "description": "The village schoolmaster who taught the children among whom Muishkin spent four years in Switzerland. He became jealous of Muishkin’s influence over the children and spread scandalous stories about him." }, { "name": "Executioner at Lyons", "aliases": [ "the executioner" ], "description": "An unnamed executioner who carried out the guillotine execution Muishkin witnessed in Lyons." }, { "name": "Priest at the Lyons execution", "aliases": [ "the priest" ], "description": "An unnamed priest who accompanied the condemned man to the scaffold and repeatedly pressed a small silver cross to his lips." }, { "name": "The executed man", "aliases": [ "the criminal" ], "description": "An unnamed, reportedly strong and wicked man whom Muishkin saw executed by guillotine in Lyons. 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