# Yura — Short Fiction character guide

> Yura in Short Fiction by Leonid Andreyev.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Yura Mikhailovich, Yura Mikhailovich Pushkarev, little Yura, the unreal Yura Mikhailovich, the real Yura Mikhailovich, The right Yura

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

## Snapshot

A schoolteacher who impersonates a spy on a railway platform and finds the disguise thrilling, Yura discovers in a frightened girl's terror a life more vivid than his own.

## Who they are

Yura Mikhailovich Pushkarev, a meagre, sour-faced teacher in blue spectacles and a worn coat, amuses himself by posing as a spy and watching passengers recoil. The disguise exhilarates him even as it exposes the shabbiness he despises in himself, and his pursuit of a terrified student girl blurs cruelty with a strange, envious longing. His game of false identity unsettles everyone around him and sets the psychological drama in motion.

## Relationships

### [Mamma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/characters/mamma)

_family_

Mamma and Yura are mother and son, with a loving but sometimes strained bond.

### [Father Vassily](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/characters/father_vassily)

_family_

Father Vassily and Yura are father and son, with a relationship marked by guidance and occasional conflict.

### [Mamma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/characters/mamma)

_family_

Mamma and Yura are mother and son, with a loving but sometimes strained bond.

### [Father Vassily](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/characters/father_vassily)

_family_

Father Vassily and Yura are father and son, with a relationship marked by guidance and occasional conflict.

### [Mamma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_34_se/characters/mamma)

_family_

Mamma and Yura are mother and son, with a loving but sometimes strained bond.

## In the story

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

The six-year-old protagonist who sees the world as vast and magical, and who secretly observes his parents' hidden sorrow.

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

The protagonist, a young boy experiencing his mother's birthday with wonder, jealousy, and melancholy.

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

Yura experiences a second madness of invisibility, spies on his mother and the officer, and later defends his father from a scolding guest.

## Links

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