# Sanine — Character guide

> Key figures in Sanine by Mikhail Artsybashev.

- [Yourii Sanine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/sanine_yourii.md): A calm, mocking wanderer who returns home with no illusions, no ambitions, and a quiet contempt for the moral codes everyone else obeys.
- [Vladimir Sanine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/vladimir_sanine.md): Yourii's sister, a romantic girl who has mythologized her absent brother — and must now reckon with the indifferent stranger who actually arrives.
- [Victor Sergejevitsch Sarudine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/sarudine.md): A self-important officer whose wounded vanity turns a trivial insult into a duel — and whose desires quietly destabilize the whole social circle.
- [Sina Karsavina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/karsavina.md): A gentle, clear-eyed young woman who becomes the still center of several men's desires, bearing secrets she never asked to keep.
- [Sascha Novikoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/novikoff.md): A student idealist in love with Lida, whose high-mindedness collapses the moment Sanine tests it with a brutal truth.
- [Yourii Svarogitsch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/yourii_svarogitsch.md): A restless young man from a military family, torn between inherited duty and a private hunger for something he cannot name.
- [Ivanoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/ivanoff.md): A drunken, cynical character who provides comic relief and harsh commentary.
- [Yourii Nicolaijevitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/yourii_nicolaijevitch.md): Yourii is the impressionable young man who sits on a pumpkin by a peasant's fire, blushing as he offers away his entire hunt and fumbling for small talk while Sanine and Riasantzeff converse with easy frankness. His emba
- [Lialia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/lialia.md): A lively young woman, part of the social group, known for her cheerful demeanor.
- [Semenoff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/semenoff.md): A minor character who interacts with the main cast in social settings.
- [Soloveitchik](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/soloveitchik.md): An orderly who serves as a foil to the main characters' intellectualism.
- [Anatole Pavlovitch Riasantzeff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/anatole_pavlovitch_riasantzeff.md): A landowner and acquaintance, often involved in social gatherings.
- [Lieutenant Tanaroff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/lieutenant_tanaroff.md): A military officer who appears in the social milieu.
- [Schafroff](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/schafroff.md): A minor character mentioned in passing during social interactions.
- [Maria Ivanovna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/maria_ivanovna.md): A maternal figure, often providing advice and stability to younger characters.
- [Pavel Lvovitsch Volochine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/pavel_lvovitsch_volochine.md): A landowner and father figure, involved in family dynamics.
- [Von Deitz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/von_deitz.md): A German officer known for his temper and physical presence.
- [Dubova](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/dubova.md): A female character who appears in the social circle.
- [Colonel Nicolai Yegorovitch Svarogitsch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/colonel_nicolai_yegorovitch_svarogitsch.md): A military colonel and father figure, representing traditional authority.
- [Kousma Prokorovitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/kousma_prokorovitch.md): An older servant or peasant character.
- [Uncle Peter Ilitsch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/uncle_peter_ilitsch.md): An uncle figure who appears in family scenes.
- [Sinotschka Karsavina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/characters/sinotschka_karsavina.md): A relative or variant of Sina Karsavina.

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