Parfen Rogozhin

... One of them was short, twenty-seven years old, curly and almost black-haired, with gray, small, but fiery eyes. His nose was wide and flattened; his face was bony; thin lips continually folded into some kind of arrogant, mocking and even evil smile; but his forehead was high and well formed and brightened the ignoblely developed lower part of the face. His dead pallor was especially conspicuous in this face, giving the whole physiognomy of a young man emaciated appearance, despite his rather strong build, and at the same time something passionate, to suffering, not in harmony with a cheeky and rude smile and his sharp, self-satisfied look . He was warmly dressed in a wide, merluchey, black, covered sheepskin coat, and during the night he was not cold ...

In the novel, Parfion Rogozhin is described as a passionate, flammable, unbridled man ^[1] . A typical representative of the Russian people with a broad, wild, unrestrained character. In the novel, his character and qualities are completely opposed to the qualities of Prince Myshkin , which is expressed even in appearance. Passionately, madly in love with Nastasya Filippovna, and having received a large inheritance, she is outgoing with her. But when she wants to marry Prince Myshkin, an unrestrained person brings Rogozhin to the point that he stabs Nastasya Filippovna with a knife after running away with her before the wedding took place. In the novel, Parfion symbolically represents the image of the Antichrist, the devil , in contrast to Prince Myshkin, who symbolizes the image of Christ. But at the same time, he symbolizes a sinful man with all his vices, transgressions. However, Prince Myshkin, as a true redeemer of human sins, forgiving Jesus Christ, forgives Rogozhin the greatest sin - the murder of Nastasia Filippovna - and soothes the distraught Parthen, as the mother soothes the crying child. His image is symbolic and is one of the main characters in the work of Dostoevsky, and one of the key in his understanding of the universe in his work. It represents an image of darkness, the next world, and carries with it a charge of negative energy, perhaps even unaware of it. The life of those who intersected with him at least once, breaks down forever without the ability to recover the lost.

• "Idiot" (novel) .
• Prince Myshkin

• Nakamura Kennoske. Rogozhin (Parfyon Semenovich Rogozhin) // Dictionary of characters in the works of F. M. Dostoevsky. - St. Petersburg: Hyperion, 2011. - p. 239-246. - 400 s. - 1000 copies - ISBN 978-5-89332-178-4 .