# Soloveitchik — Sanine character guide

> Soloveitchik in Sanine by Mikhail Artsybashev.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** orderly Soloveitchik, poor Soloveitchik

**First appearance:** 0010-ix

## Who they are

An orderly who serves as a foil to the main characters' intellectualism.

## In the story

### [Chapter XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/chapters/xxv)

Sits in a corner listening with childish interest, then doubt and distress; Sanine promises to visit him.

### [Chapter XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/chapters/xxvi)

Overwhelmed by existential dread, Soloveitchik tends to his dog Sultan and weeps alone in his room, feeling small and powerless before the chaos of the universe.

### [The Confrontation in the Garden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/chapters/xxx)

Timidly joins Sanine and Ivanoff, then is horrified by the violence.

### [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/chapters/xxxi)

Sarudine's orderly, who tends to him with pity and fear, and later sits on the steps, reflecting on life's sadness.

### [XXXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/chapters/xxxii)

Deeply troubled, questions the purpose of life, hints at suicide, and is left motionless after Sanine's departure.

### [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sanine_se/chapters/xxxiv)

Mentioned as having hanged himself; Yourii reflects on him as a misunderstood saint.

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