Ippolit (EE-paul-eet) is an embittered intellectual who will soon die. (*) He has feelings for Aglaya Yepanchin, a beautiful young woman and member of the Petersburg aristocracy, as does the novel's protagonist. Her father, General Yepanchin is a wea
Ippolit (EE-paul-eet) is an embittered intellectual who will soon die. (*) He has feelings for Aglaya Yepanchin, a beautiful young woman and member of the Petersburg aristocracy, as does the novel's protagonist. Her father, General Yepanchin is a wealthy society man who is an early patron of the protagonist but begins the novel infatuated with Nastasya Fillipovna, a "fallen woman" who is loved and pitied by the protagonist but who is the object of Parfyon Rogozhin's obsession. Rogozhin meets the Christ-like protagonist, Prince Myshkin, in the beginning of this novel, the second of Dostoevsky's later masterpieces.
Ippolit (EE-paul-eet) is an embittered intellectual who will soon die.
The {Idiot}