# Vasil — Short Fiction character guide

> Vasil in Short Fiction by Aleksandr Kuprin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Vasil

**First appearance:** 0016-the-witch

## Who they are

A young peasant man, a character in a story.

## Relationships

### [Buzyga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_se/characters/buzyga)

_friendship_

Buzyga and Vasil are loyal friends and drinking companions, sharing a rough but affectionate bond.

### [Onisim Kozel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_se/characters/onisim_kozel)

_rivalry_

Onisim Kozel and Vasil are enemies, feuding over property and personal grievances in their village.

### [Onisim Kozel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_se/characters/onisim_kozel)

_rivalry_

Onisim Kozel and Vasil are enemies, feuding over property and personal grievances in their village.

### [Buzyga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_se/characters/buzyga)

_friendship_

Buzyga and Vasil are loyal friends and drinking companions, sharing a rough but affectionate bond.

### [Onisim Kozel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_se/characters/onisim_kozel)

_rivalry_

Onisim Kozel and Vasil are enemies, feuding over property and personal grievances in their village.

## In the story

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

Kozel's thirteen-year-old grandson, who listens to tales of Buzyga and declares he wants to become a horse-thief.

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

Kozel's grandson, a boy who admires Buzyga and is given whiskey; he feels a strange warmth and detachment as he listens to the familiar tale.

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

The young boy recruited to guide Buzyga; cold, sleepy, and torn between pride and fear, he feels gratitude for Buzyga's kindness.

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

Kozel's grandson, pale and trembling, unable to look away from Buzyga's mutilated face, feeling hatred for his grandfather.

## Links

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