Rogojin is the sole heir to a vast fortune; he is the type of uneducated, wild Russian merchant. He acts with a dark and destructive passion for Nastasya Filippovna that borders on insanity. While thinking he can buy her by wrapping her in tens of thousands of rubles, he spirals into a realm of morbid jealousy and madness when he realizes he cannot own even a corner of Nastasya's soul. Although his path crossing with Prince Myshkin on the train gives them a kind of fateful brotherhood, Rogojin's cruel and possessive understanding of love is not enough to stop the catastrophe for both of them.
He is the son of a merchant father who adhered to the traditional, strictly conservative, and greedy Old Russian faith. He grew up under his father's beatings, and as soon as he inherited the fortune, he turned his gloomy family home in Pskov into a hellish feast with the millions at his disposal. He squandered his father's money for the sake of his love for Nastasya Filippovna.
About twenty-seven, short, with jet-black curly hair, a flat nose, and prominent cheekbones. He has small grey eyes that look at you with a reckless and agonizing fire, and thin lips.
Prens Mışkin
Although he feels a kind of subconscious submission toward him, he hates him because of Nastasya and sees him as a mortal rival.
Nastasya Filippovna
The meaning of his life, the source of his madness. He cannot breathe without her, yet he is always humiliated by her.