# Andrei Petrovitch — Short Fiction character guide

> Andrei Petrovitch in Short Fiction by Nikolai Gogol.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Petrovitch

**First appearance:** 0039-memoirs-of-a-madman

## Snapshot

A diarist whose orderly entries slowly crack apart, letting madness seep through the seams of an ordinary life.

## Who they are

He is the voice of a diary that begins in calm observation and ends somewhere far stranger, tracking his own unraveling with unnerving composure. What begins as routine record-keeping becomes a struggle to hold self and world together, and the reader watches the ground give way beneath him. His pages matter because they make insanity feel gradual, logical, almost reasonable — until it isn't.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_40_se/chapters/i)

Referred to in newspaper clippings as 'our most respected Andrei Petrovitch,' indicating Tchartkoff's acquired social status.

### [The Mantle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_40_se/chapters/the-mantle)

The one-eyed tailor who makes Akaki's new mantle.

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