# Tatiana Nikolayevna — Short Fiction character guide

> Tatiana Nikolayevna in Short Fiction by Leonid Andreyev.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Tatiana, Tatiana Nikolayevna

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

## Who they are

A woman of some social position, involved in personal relationships.

## In the story

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

Wife of Alexis, once beautiful but now aged and grieving; rejected the narrator's marriage proposal five years ago.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/ii)

Wife of Alexis; the narrator believes she never trusted his love and thinks he killed her husband out of jealousy.

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

Expresses loquacious but insincere sympathy; the narrator fears she might see through his act.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/v)

Alexis's wife; she senses Kerzhentseff's murderous intent and tries to intervene but fails.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/vii)

Mentioned as the woman whose laughter wounded Kerzhentseff, possibly a motive for the crime.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/chapters/viii)

Mentioned as unhappy over the loss of her husband, but Kerzhentseff dismisses her suffering.

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