# Nina Alexandrovna Ivolgina — The Idiot character guide

> Nina Alexandrovna Ivolgina in The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Nina Alexandrovna, Nina, Nina Alexandrovna—seeing

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-iii

## Who they are

Ganya's mother, a long-suffering woman.

## In the story

### [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_idiot_se/chapters/part-i-viii)

Nina Alexandrovna is the mother, trying to maintain peace but showing firmness and sorrow over the family's strained circumstances.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_idiot_se/chapters/part-i-ix)

Attempts to manage the situation and protect her husband from further embarrassment.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_idiot_se/chapters/part-i-x)

Present during the scandal, appears pale and trembling, nearly faints.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_idiot_se/chapters/part-i-xii)

Praised by Colia for helping Hippolyte with money and clothes.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_idiot_se/chapters/part-iv-i)

Follows General Ivolgin into the room, distressed.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_idiot_se/chapters/part-iv-ii)

Trembles and cries quietly during the general's outburst.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_idiot_se/chapters/part-iv-iii)

Mentioned as the general's long-suffering wife who cares for him during his episodes of illness and repentance.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_idiot_se/chapters/part-iv-iv)

Mentioned as the person the general went to after writing to Myshkin, which set the prince's mind at ease.

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