Myshkin (album) Myshkin (album) Myshkin (2008) is the debut full-length album by Michou. As was their first EP, "Myshkin" was recorded in the attic of friend Joel Bruyere, mastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel and released on June 5, 2008. The album is named after the protagonist, Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, in the novel 'The Idiot' by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The band said they named it Myshkin because they "felt the character really reflected who [we] are as a band." It is also stated by former member Ryan Ard in the album's liner notes that "Myshkin represents the simplicity and honesty conveyed
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