Short Fiction · Character
Thomas Brutus
A cheerful seminary philosopher who endures thrashings with calm, smokes his pipe through any crisis, and believes a man cannot escape his destiny.
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Also known as the philosopher, Mr. Philosopher Thomas, Thomas, Brutus
First appearance: The Viy
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The protagonist, a philosopher from the seminary who is haunted by a witch and ultimately killed by the Viy.
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Thomas Brutus is the philosopher of a wandering trio of seminary students, distinguished from the brooding theologian Khalava and the boyish rhetorician Gorobetz by his appetite for lying still, smoking, and dancing the…
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- St. Petersburg tales characters
- Minor Cossack warriors
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