Prince Myshkin Prince Myshkin Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot". Dostoevsky wanted to create a character that was "entirely positive... with an absolutely beautiful nature", someone who is truly 'Christian'. According to Joseph Frank, the character of Prince Myshkin approaches "the extremest incarnation of the Christian ideal of love that humanity can reach in its present form, but he is torn apart by the conflict between the contradictory imperatives of his apocalyptic aspirations and his earthly limitations." Prince Myshkin has been in Switzerland for the last four years, at a
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