# Novodvoroff — Resurrection character guide

> Novodvoroff in Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0110-iv

## Who they are

A political exile and revolutionary leader.

## In the story

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

Mentioned as one of Mary Pávlovna's companions who says she devotes herself to philanthropic amusements.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/chapters/xi)

Sitting with Grábetz; he greets Nekhlúdoff with apparent irony, which Nekhlúdoff dislikes.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/chapters/xii)

Referenced as Kondrátieff's ideological mentor; Kondrátieff accepts his arguments as unanswerable truths.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/chapters/xiii)

In love with the pretty, smiling Grábetz.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/chapters/xiv)

Argues that the masses worship power and that revolutionaries should not expect help from them; dismisses Kryltzóff's sentimentality.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/chapters/xv)

A revolutionary leader driven by ambition, self-assured, and disdainful of Nekhlúdoff's independent views.

### [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/resurrection_se/chapters/xviii)

Comments on Nevéroff's nature as a poet and dreamer, contrasting his own systematic approach to solitary confinement.

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