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The Idiot completed as a serial novel, 1868–1869

Idiot was written in European hotels and printed 1868–69. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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Idiot was written in European hotels and printed 1868–69. It is not Demons and not a unique epilepsy medical paper, though the hero’s falling sickness uses the author’s disease. Gambling debts of those years are a separate fiscal row.

Context

Anna was with him; pawned belongings are context. Cohesion path: imagining a gentle person among predators. Mixed: the book ends in wreck. Later holy-fool cult is reception.

Why it matters

The Idiot is a cohesion path of high confidence and modest-to-moderate weight. It is not a unique kindness series. Mixed catastrophe ending is why the weight is not a hymn.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Named author of The Idiot. Foreign hotels and Russkiy Vestnik shared the production. Direct on the book.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe Idiot completed as a serial novel, 1868–1869
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1869 · verified

    A novel of a ‘positively good’ man in a greedy salon is a cohesion path of failed gentleness, not a charity statute.

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.14 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Project Gutenberg — Fyodor Dostoyevsky author pageProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Fyodor DostoyevskyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Gutenberg author page at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/314 (opens in a new tab) locates English Idiot neighbourhood. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab) independently dates the novel. Kuznechny museum at https://eng.md.spb.ru/ (opens in a new tab) is a later house locator, not the 1869 act.

Established: The Idiot completed 1868–69. Distinct from Demons. Geneva-to-Italy writing, 1868–69 serial, Myshkin, not the roulette ledger. Official https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/314 (opens in a new tab) is not independent https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fyodor-Dostoyevsky (opens in a new tab).

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. The Idiot is not Demons and not the Pushkin speech. Mixed effects of The Idiot completed as a serial novel, 1868–1869 are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of The Idiot completed as a serial novel, 1868–1869. Naming Fyodor Dostoyevsky does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1869-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFyodor Dostoyevsky
  2. contributed toFactThe Idiot completed as a serial novel, 1868–1869
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). The Idiot completed as a serial novel, 1868–1869. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-idiot-1869

https://factrail.ai/facts/dost-idiot-1869

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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