The Idiot The Idiot The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal "The Russian Messenger" in 1868–9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man." The novel examines the
Lev Gassovsky the executive editor of the journal “The works of the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics”. – Moscow-Leningrad: Dept of Scientific and Technical Information, People's Commissariat of the Tank Industry of the USSR, the Chief Editorial board of literature on engineering and metal working, the General Board of institutions. Gassovsky made a significant contribution in the development of Soviet ophthalmic and physiological optics. He was awarded with the Order of Lenin (1953), the Order of Honor (1943) and other USSR medals. Виртуальный музей Университет ИТМО Lev Gassovsky Lev Nikolaevich Gassovsky (1894 – 1989) was a Russian professor (1935), Candidate