# Semyonov-Pishtchik — The Cherry Orchard character guide

> Semyonov-Pishtchik in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Pishtchik, Mr. Pishtchik, Seyonov - Pishtchik, Kisses Pishtchik

**First appearance:** 0002-act-i

## Snapshot

A round, breathless landowner who borrows money from everyone, worries about his health, and bursts into rooms like he owns them.

## Who they are

Pishtchik is perpetually on the verge of ruin yet somehow always afloat, cadging loans from Lyubov Andreyevna while cheerfully diagnosing his own ailments. His appetite for life—and for other people's purses—makes him both absurd and oddly sympathetic. He represents the neighboring gentry sinking alongside the orchard, and his refusal to panic gives the play one of its few notes of uncomplicated vitality.

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