# Timofeev — Short Fiction character guide

> Timofeev in Short Fiction by Aleksandr Kuprin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Timofeev - Soumskoi

**First appearance:** 0031-a-slav-soul

## Who they are

A fellow officer in a story.

## In the story

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_se/chapters/ix)

The tragedian playing Nero; described as broad-shouldered, pockmarked, with a hectoring manner and poor memory for lines.

### [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_se/chapters/x)

An actor who lectures on the lost 'classic gesture of exit' and laments the decline of theatrical traditions.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_se/chapters/xi)

Plays Ivan the Terrible in a bumbling, overacted performance, reading his part from the prompter's box.

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