Canon Divergence - Twelve Years in Advance for Karamazov Setting
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From Water to Wine (преложение) by m1ssin9ction
Fandoms: Dostoevsky Verse, The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Brat'ya Karamazovy | Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Бесы - Фёдор Достоевский | Demons - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Prestuplenie i nakazanie | Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Sep 2025
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1881: After Alexander II's assassination, while Leo XIII implements social reform within the Roman Catholic Church, Pyotr Alexandrovich Miusov incidentally receives while in Paris a request from one of those pesky "Christian socialists" of whose company he's avoided -- a long-forgotten prince, one Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, belonging to a dubiously reputable group of esotericists -- for the personal contributions of any devotee of the late Elder Zosima of Skotoprigonyevsk, and for so simple a task the prince introduces the Liberal to certain European aristocrats.
"Helena Petrovna won't return from her rounds in India," adds Myshkin by way of explanation, "and so, we seek dialogue with a Russian mystic of equal dynamism, albeit one less prone to scandal."
Miusov thinks to the youngest of the famous brothers of Skotoprigonyevsk, now a schoolmaster. The young man had inherited his father's house, and with the devoted aid of Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva cares for his brother Ivan, still unstable after nearly three years since their eldest brother Dmitri's trial for parricide and subsequent sentence to Siberia.
This Prince Myshkin, after all, reminds Miusov of Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, that holy fool.