# Karakhan — The Bolshevik Myth character guide

> Karakhan in The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0007-vi-chicherin-and-karakhan

## Who they are

Soviet diplomat and deputy to Chicherin.

## In the story

### [IV: Moscow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/iv-moscow)

Occupies the former residence of the Sugar King of Russia, where the narrator first goes upon arrival.

### [VI: Chicherin and Karakhan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/vi-chicherin-and-karakhan)

Tall, well-groomed, sits in a sumptuous office with a tiger skin rug, justifies requisitions and capital punishment, dismisses narrator's skepticism about Communist influence abroad.

### [VIII: In the Moskkommune](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/viii-in-the-moskkommune)

Mentioned as a high-placed functionary whose ossobniak receives special food supplies.

### [Sights and Views](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xii-sights-and-views)

The narrator telephones Karakhan to request a physician for Sergei.

### [XVIII: The British Labor Mission](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xviii-the-british-labor-mission)

Arrives late at the Moscow station and offers a ride to Bertrand Russell and the narrator; unfamiliar with Russell's identity.

### [Last Links in the Chain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_bolshevik_myth_se/chapters/xxxix-last-links-in-the-chain)

Karakhan's Rolls-Royce is noted among the automobiles at the Hotel Luxe.

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