# Pavel Petrovich Pospeloff — Short Fiction character guide

> Pavel Petrovich Pospeloff in Short Fiction by Leonid Andreyev.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Pavel Petrovich, Pavel, Poor Pavel

**First appearance:** 0001-short-fiction

## Who they are

A character facing misfortune or poverty.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/i)

Ivan Savvich, Sashka's father, is a former tutor and statistician now suffering from consumption, who secretly supports Sashka and uses craft to persuade him to go to the Svetchnikovs.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/iii)

The fat pig at whom the narrator directs his trick; he is disgusted by his eating and makes him the target.

### [The Confessions of a Little Man During Great Days](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/the-confessions-of-a-little-man-during-great-days)

The narrator's brother-in-law, who is at the war and later dies.

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