Despite the harsh circumstances besetting his own life - abject poverty, incessant gambling, and the death of his firstborn child - Dostoevsky produced a second masterpiece, The Idiot, just two years after coабэрцmpleting Crime and Punishment In it, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in whiавсдбch a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing the wreckage left by human misery to find "man in man".