Prince Myshkin dramatic convergence of multiple independent voices and perspectives rather than simply being a monological recounting of the event by a narrator. Dostoevsky makes Prince Myshkin a character whose voice is capable of "actively and confidently interfering in the interior dialogue of the other person." He is thus significant not merely to the plot, but to the very consciousness of the individual characters. His insight, compassion, sincerity, candour, disinclination to judge and lack of normal social egoism awaken a responsive consciousness in most of the people with whom he engages, and serve to disrupt the habitual flow of their self-centred thoughts
Lev Gassovsky Lev Gassovsky Lev Nikolaevich Gassovsky (1894 – 1989) was a Russian professor (1935), Candidate of Science (1938), and Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1940). He authored "The Eye and effectiveness of its work" and he also worked on chapters in the reference book for opto-mechanical engineers, several manuals on military optics and more than 90 scientific works. In 1918, Gassovsky graduated from the Leningrad (Petrograd) State University, and then, in 1927, he graduated from the German Higher School of Optics in Jena. He worked as a teacher of physics at the Leningrad Labor School (1918–19) and the Military Engineering