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
Nikolay Nikolaevich Andreev president of the Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation. Author of a large number of scientific papers and publications, almost all of which are not subject to open publication. He was awarded orders and medals of the USSR and the Russian Federation. Laureate of the Lenin Prize. Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR. Nikolay Nikolaevich Andreev Nikolay Nikolaevich Andreev (; 31 January 1929 - 26 December 2006) was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of cryptography. He was born in 1929 in the Moscow. In 1951 he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. immediately