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 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