Short Fiction · Character

Voskresenski

A student of proud, chaste convictions who finds his revolutionary certainties melting under a woman's fixed, shameless gaze on a hot afternoon.

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Also known as Voskresenski

First appearance: the river of life

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Gives the narrator his lines and explains the scene-painter's situation.

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Voskresenski arrives at the seaside household as a young man of clean ideals and political seriousness, but Kate's sudden, stifled urgency — 'Sacha, my own one' — catches him in a burning, arid whirl that cripples his will and judgment. The open door, the suffocating air, the memory of warm insatiable waves: everything conspires to drown the man he thought he was. His surrender matters because it stages the story's central collision between ideology and desire, the moment a revolutionary discovers he is only human.

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Character groups

Doctors and Revolutionaries
Biblical and Romantic Figures
Officers and Society Women
Spies, Priests, and Performers

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Aftermath
Closing

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VII
Gives the narrator his lines and explains the scene-painter's situation.
I
A student who dislikes the southern landscape and people; he becomes agitated when the doctor jokes about Anna Georgievna.
II
The student tutor who passionately argues against Zavalishine's nationalism, feeling both righteous and humiliated after the confrontation.
III
The student experiences a whirlwind of passion, disgust, and self-hatred after his first intimate encounter with Anna Georgievna, then is drawn back to her.
IV
Flees the Zavalishines in shame, boards the Xenia, and reflects on his encounter with Anna Georgievna.

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