# Fedia — The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories character guide

> Fedia in The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0093-the-forged-coupon

## Snapshot

A young man whose small act of forgery sets off a chain of consequences that ripples through everyone around him.

## Who they are

Fedia is a student or clerk whose desire for money and standing leads him to alter a document, an act he thinks will be quickly forgotten. Instead, the forgery passes from hand to hand, drawing in people who never knew him and turning small compromises into larger crimes. His moment of weakness is the pebble that starts the avalanche in 'The Forged Coupon.'

## In the story

### [Kornéy Vasílyef](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leo_tolstoy_short_fiction_se/chapters/korn-y-vas-lyef)

Kornéy and Martha's son. Seen first as a child receiving a picture-book, later as a grown man with an axe, reproaching his mother for her lack of pity towards the old pilgrim (his father).

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