# Pavel Ivanitch — Short Fiction character guide

> Pavel Ivanitch in Short Fiction by Anton Chekhov.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Ivanitch, Pavel Ivanitch Vyhodtsev, Vyhodtsev, Pavel Ivanitch Bezsonnitsin, Pavel Ivanitch

**First appearance:** 0000-a-living-chattel

## Who they are

A man who appears in the stories.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/i)

Psyekov, the steward of the estate, who is a suspect and is arrested by the end of the chapter.

### [Sorrow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/sorrow)

The doctor at the hospital; the turner imagines pleading with him and later sees him after his amputation.

### [At a Summer Villa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/at-a-summer-villa)

A practical married man who receives an anonymous love letter, becomes intrigued despite his disdain, and goes to the arbour only to find his brother-in-law.

### [Not Wanted](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/not-wanted)

Pavel Matveyitch Zaikin, a circuit court member, is the protagonist who feels exhausted and displaced by his wife's social activities.

### [Mire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/mire)

A character caught in the stagnant environment, reflecting the themes of isolation and moral failure.

### [Shrove Tuesday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/shrove-tuesday)

The father, roused from sleep to help his son with arithmetic; he reminisces about his school days and participates in the pre-Lenten rituals.

### [A Play](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/a-play)

The reluctant listener who is forced to endure Mme. Murashkin's play reading; he becomes increasingly agitated and ultimately attacks her with a paperweight.

### [Gusev](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/gusev)

A political exile on the ship who engages in philosophical arguments and contrasts with Gusev's simplicity.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/i)

A nondescript individual in the ship's hospital, subject to seasickness and irritable when the sea is rough.

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/ii)

A consumptive passenger, bitter and critical of the authorities.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/iii)

Boasts about his reputation as a protester and describes his deception to travel third-class.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/iv)

Lies down instead of sitting up, grows weaker, and dies. He speaks of his illness and compares himself to Gusev.

### [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/iv)

The narrator and husband, who asserts control over his wife's famine relief work.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/v)

The narrator, exhausted and conflicted, reviews his wife's papers and decides to leave for town.

### [In Exile](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/in-exile)

An old, toothless ferryman who has embraced a philosophy of wanting nothing, claiming to be free and happy in his exile.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/vi)

Sergey Nikanoritch, the waiter who receives money from Yakov and is later arrested and sentenced to ten years.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/iv)

Not present in this chapter.

## Links

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