# Captain Zaikin — Short Fiction character guide

> Captain Zaikin in Short Fiction by Vsevolod Garshin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Zaikin

**First appearance:** 0003-coward

## Who they are

A military officer with a minor role.

## In the story

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_56_se/chapters/ii)

Makes jokes about spelling and offers the narrator a place in his tent.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_56_se/chapters/viii)

Captain Grum-Skjebitski, the landlord of the lodging house, is a retired soldier who bows affectedly and claims to have been in the Polish Rebellion.

### [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_56_se/chapters/xvii)

Implied author of the anonymous letter; accused of being a 'hero of Miekoff and Opatoff' but Bezsonow says he is inventing.

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