The Idiot also been well received. 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."
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