The Idiot three prisoners were tied to stakes facing the firing squad: Dostoevsky was among the next in line. Just as the first shots were about to be fired, a message arrived from the Tsar commuting the sentences to hard labor in Siberia. The experience had a profound effect on Dostoevsky, and in Part 1 of "The Idiot" (written twenty years after the event) the character of Prince Myshkin repeatedly speaks in depth on the subject of capital punishment. On one occasion, conversing with the Epanchin women, he recounts an anecdote that exactly mirrors Dostoevsky's own experience. A man of 27, who
Myshkin (singer) moved to Joshua Tree, California to join her. She records and performs under the name Myshkin Warbler, typically with a five piece band, including Damian Lester on upright bass and Jenny Qaqundah on cello . In 2016 she created Myshkin Warbler's Royal Rabble Circus, which quickly became a staple of the twice-annual Joshua Tree Music Festival. In June 2018, DoubleSalt Works released the record Trust and the High Wire, Myshkin Warbler's record about her wife's near death experience and recovery. The record serves as a musical companion to Jenny Q's experimental book Held Together. The couple combined the two works