# Dmitriy — A Confession character guide

> Dmitriy in A Confession by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** himself

**First appearance:** 0012-xiii

## Who they are

A peasant or acquaintance who offers simple faith as a counterpoint to the narrator's doubt.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_confession_se/chapters/i)

The narrator's elder brother who devoted himself to religion and was ridiculed by the family.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_confession_se/chapters/iii)

Tolstoy's brother, whose painful death raised unanswerable questions about life's meaning.

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