I imagined the prince a little differently while I was reading the novel: I had a mixed impression of him. Now you're just amazed at such a Mouse. As he says: impetuously, vividly, vividly, colorfully, he paints a picture right in front of his eyes. You sit there and you're afraid to breathe once again, but you keep listening, listening.
@crystalchoke: but I would add, perhaps, that Hippolytus is completely undisclosed in the series. But he is, one might say, the second main character after Myshkin. And Dostoevsky wrote that Hippolytus is the main axis of the novel.
but everything is kind of cardboard, theatrical, and filmed on potatoes