# Kasimir Stanislavovitch — Short Fiction character guide

> Kasimir Stanislavovitch in Short Fiction by Ivan Bunin.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** April Kasimir Stanislavovitch

**First appearance:** 0029-kasimir-stanislavovitch

## Snapshot

A restless intellectual adrift in Moscow's nightlife, drinking vodka and weeping at gramophone songs before racing through the city's lit streets.

## Who they are

Kasimir Stanislavovitch is a man of complex identity—possibly an artist or intellectual—who drinks vodka in an empty hall, his eyes reddening at a gramophone's sweet, snuffling drone. He wanders from hot restaurant to cold corridor, orders wine, and after midnight races by hansom to a brothel, where he nearly fights a stout gentleman and lies dressed on a satin quilt. His intoxicated, dislocated night captures the story's early-middle mood of spiritual drift and sensory overload.

## In the story

### [Kasimir Stanislavovitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_30_se/chapters/kasimir-stanislavovitch)

The protagonist, a poor and drunken man who travels to Moscow for a wedding, haunted by his past and unrequited love.

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