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) the New Orleans Picayune. She moved to Portland, Oregon. in 2002, followed by drummer Magee a year later. In Portland she began working with the electronic musician / producer Sailor Banks, with whom she released two albums "Corvidae" and "Sigh Semaphore", concentrating on political and humanist themes. Myshkin's Ruby Warblers continued to tour the US and Europe until 2008 when Myshkin left the city to co-found a permaculture community in Southern Oregon. There she built an earth walled studio, in which she recorded "That Diamond Lust" released in 2012. In 2013 Myshkin met her future wife while on tour, and