Dostoevsky and World Culture Dostoevsky and World Culture 2619-0311 2712-8512 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2018-3-92-103 Articles The Image of a Tree in F.M. Dostoyevsky’s Novel “The Idiot” Smyslova Olga N. fedor@dostmirkult.ru 2021 1 3 92 103 F.M. Dostoevsky “The Idiot” image symbol tree garden Golden Age Ippolit Terentyev Prince Myshkin Switzerland Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 The article is devoted to the analysis of the image of a tree in Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot”. The author reflects on the evolution of this image from an artistic detail in the description of the Pavlovsk Park to the philosophical symbol of the Golden Age lost by mankind and the ideal future expected and dreamed of by all the characters of the novel. The author examines the manifestation of the image of a tree in the monologues of Prince Myshkin, Ippolit Terentyev, in the descriptions of the Pavlovsk Park, Switzerland, Lebedev’s mansion and dacha.