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 Knyazev members of the party, he first trusted the regime, but later realized that he – as millions of his fellow countrymen – was deceived by the propaganda. Throughout the years Lev Knyazev developed friendship with dozens of people – and not only in Russia. He became close friends with American author, historian and activist Jay Higginbotham, who politically advocated a doctrine of American reconciliation between countries such as the USSR and Cuba. In 1986, Knyazev and Higginbotham took a trip through Russia and helped create sister-city relationship between Mobile and the Russian city of Rostov. In 1989 Lev Knyazev visited