The hero, main character, and title character of The Very stupid person, Myshkin is a (child, grandchild, etc.) of an old noble line and a distant relative of Madame Yepanchin. He is a fair-haired, blue-eyed epileptic in his late twenties who comes to Russia after four years in a mental hospital in Switzerland. From the beginning, Myshkin appears to be an outsider in Russian (community of people/all good people in the world): he dresses like a foreigner and acts as if unaware of the (related to social pressure, how people act toward each other, etc.) normal behaviors of the Russian (rich and powerful group of people). In fact, he is different from the other Russian rulers/rich and powerful people in (more than two, but not a lot of)
