Idiot

"One thought has been tormenting me for a long time <…> too difficult <…>. This idea is to depict a positively beautiful person. I think there can be nothing harder than this…", - wrote Dostoevsky to A. Maikov. The type of such a character was embodied in Prince Myshkin - the main character of the novel "Idiot", the greatest work of world literature and - universally recognized - the most mysterious novel of Dostoevsky.
Who is he, Prince Myshkin? A man who imagines himself to be Christ, intending to heal the souls of people with his boundless kindness? Or an idiot, not realizing that such a mission is impossible in our world?
The tangled relationships of the prince with those around him, the heavy internal division, the painful and diverse love for two women dear to his heart, intensified by vivid passions, painful experiences, and the extraordinarily complex characters of both heroines, become the main driving force of the plot and lead it to a fateful tragic conclusion…