# Fyodor Lukitch Sysoev — Short Fiction character guide

> Fyodor Lukitch Sysoev in Short Fiction by Anton Chekhov.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Sysoev, Fyodor Lukitch

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

## Who they are

A schoolmaster who appears in the narrative.

## In the story

### [The Bird Market](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/the-bird-market)

The schoolmaster, known as 'Your Scholarship,' is a regular at the market, examining pigeons with grave seriousness and treated with respect by the habitués.

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

Appears as Shchupkin, the writing master caught in a love scene with Natashenka.

### [The Privy Councillor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/the-privy-councillor)

The tutor Pobyedimsky, who becomes jealous of the uncle's attention to Tatyana Ivanovna.

### [The Schoolmaster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/the-schoolmaster)

The schoolmaster, preparing for the annual dinner, struggling with his health and temper, and later devastated by the revelation of his impending death.

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

The sacristan who signs the visitor list as Fedyukov, revealed to be a real person.

### [The Pipe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/the-pipe)

Meliton is the bailiff who converses with the shepherd, lamenting the state of the world and his own hardships.

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

Appears as the soldier with his arm in a sling who speaks to Gusev about Pavel Ivanitch's death and Gusev's own condition.

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

Andrey Ivanov, the house painter known as 'Radish,' who assists the narrator with scenery painting and is afflicted with a chronic illness.

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

Not present in this chapter.

### [The Schoolmistress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/the-schoolmistress)

Referenced as Semyon, the old driver who accompanies Marya on her journey. He is practical and surly, commenting on the road and the news.

### [Gooseberries](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/gooseberries)

Burkin, the high school teacher, who accompanies Ivan Ivanovitch and listens to the story.

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

Father Sisoy, who grumpily interacts with Marya Timofyevna and later urges the mother not to disturb the dying bishop.

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