![]() ![]() Ganya asks Myshkin to help him express his love for Aglaya one last time, but Aglaya coldly rejects him. After this conversation, Myshkin speaks with the four Epanchin women and greatly charms them. ![]() Ganya seems a little hesitant about the engagement. Ganya may be about to marry Nastasya Totsky, Nastasya’s wealthy guardian who sexually abused her as a teenager, has offered an enormous sum for her dowry. At first Epanchin is suspicious of Myshkin, but then comes to like him, offering him a job, some money, and a place to stay with his associate, Ganya. Myshkin and General Epanchin meet in Epanchin’s office. They have three unmarried daughters in their early 20s: Alexandra, Adelaida, and Aglaya. Lizaveta and her husband, General Epanchin, are wealthy and well-respected. Myshkin goes to the house of his distant relative, Mrs. Rogozhin has been trying to seduce the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna, and is going to see her that night. Myshkin has been receiving treatment for epilepsy in Switzerland for almost five years, and has no money Rogozhin, on the other hand, has just inherited an enormous fortune. ![]() ![]() He is sitting next to Rogozhin, a young man with a “malicious smile,” and Lebedev, a foolish clerk. Prince Myshkin is on a train pulling into St. ![]()
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