# Uncle Egor — Red Dusk and the Morrow character guide

> Uncle Egor in Red Dusk and the Morrow by Paul Dukes.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0004-i-one-of-the-crowd

## Who they are

An older voice of hard-won experience, offering the kind of plainspoken counsel that keeps a man alive when the city itself has turned informant.

## In the story

### [VIII: A Village “Bourgeois-Capitalist”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_dusk_and_the_morrow_se/chapters/viii-a-village-bourgeois-capitalist)

A hardworking peasant who has been labeled a 'grabber' and disenfranchised by the Bolsheviks. He expresses a desire for a 'Master' to restore order and helps the narrator travel back to Petrograd.

### [IX: Metamorphosis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_dusk_and_the_morrow_se/chapters/ix-metamorphosis)

The narrator never sees him again; reflects on the peasant's ultimate victory.

### [XIV: Conclusion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/red_dusk_and_the_morrow_se/chapters/xiv-conclusion)

Referenced indirectly through the discussion of the peasantry's love for the soil and their primitive aspirations under Bolshevism.

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