The Idiot
The IdiotFyodor Dostoyevsky
Characters in The Idiot
7 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
Returns to Russia after four years in a Swiss clinic treated for severe epilepsy; his radical innocence and incapacity for deceit collide with St Petersburg society.
Antagonists
Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin
A merchant's son consumed by an obsessive passion for Nastasya Filippovna, and Myshkin's rival and dark double.
Supporting characters
Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova
Orphaned at seven and manipulated into sexual servitude by her guardian Totsky; proud, beautiful and self-destructive, pursued by both Myshkin and Rogozhin.
Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina
The youngest and most spirited of General Yepanchin's three daughters, and the other woman Myshkin is drawn to.
General Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin
A wealthy general, head of the Yepanchin household and Aglaya's father.
Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin
Ganya, the Yepanchins' ambitious secretary, caught between money and his feelings for Nastasya Filippovna.
Rogozhin