Short Fiction · Character
The Czarina
The Empress who gives Vakoola the slippers for Oxana.
minor
Also known as Catherine, Kitty, our late Empress Catherine the Second
First appearance: the night of christmas eve
The Czarina first appears in 0010 the night of christmas eve.
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Relationship types
- Other
Character groups
- Viy story characters
- Comic and domestic characters
- St. Petersburg tales characters
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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