# The Created Legend — Character guide

> Key figures in The Created Legend by Fyodor Sologub.

- [Trirodov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/trirodov.md): A reclusive poet of strange, exquisite verses who can call sleeping children from their beds and graves, and who now finds himself drawn into revolution and forbidden love.
- [Elisaveta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/elisaveta.md): A barefoot revolutionary comrade who walks the river paths with her sister, defends Trirodov against slander, and discovers her own heart betraying her to him.
- [Kirsha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/kirsha.md): Trirodov's young son, who moves between the ordinary world and the quiet white children, carrying messages about sleepers in graves who are not quite dead.
- [Ostrov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/ostrov.md): A shabby, insinuating man who claims old acquaintance with Trirodov, prowls his walls for information, and trades in suspicious rumors for unclear purposes.
- [Matov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/matov.md): A government official with dark rumors trailing him, whose quarrels, disappearances, and mysterious death leave his two sons in Rameyev's care.
- [Egorka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/egorka.md): An eleven-year-old commoner's son in a torn red shirt who follows the white boy Grisha into a fabulous land, and whose grave-sleep becomes the center of Trirodov's strange power.
- [Elena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/elena.md): Elena moves through the Rameyev household as one of the marriageable daughters, openly admired by Piotr yet unbothered by his possessive sulking. When Piotr rails against Trirodov as a charlatan and magician, she deflate
- [Doulebov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/doulebov.md): Doulebov glides through the provincial bureaucracy with pleasant manners and a slender, squealing voice, never drunk, always accompanied by the shrewd wife who manages his affairs. He engineers the Vice-Governor's visit 
- [Rameyev](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/rameyev.md): Rameyev presides over a household where Piotr's hostility to Trirodov keeps erupting into open rudeness, and he spends his authority trying to smooth it over—'it isn't hospitable,' he chides, 'you shouldn't have done tha
- [Alkina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/alkina.md): A female character with connections to the revolutionary circle.
- [Stchemilov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/stchemilov.md): A landowner or official who interacts with the main characters.
- [Zinaida](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/zinaida.md): Doulebov's wife, a society lady with her own concerns.
- [Dmitry Matov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/dmitry_matov.md): A relative or associate of Piotr Matov, possibly a student.
- [Misha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/misha.md): A young boy, possibly a friend or relative of Kirsha.
- [Zherbenev](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/zherbenev.md): A character involved in the local administration or police.
- [Kiril](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/kiril.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or worker.
- [Sergey Svetilovitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/sergey_svetilovitch.md): A doctor who treats various characters in the story.
- [Shabalov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/shabalov.md): A police inspector investigating revolutionary activities.
- [Grisha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/grisha.md): A minor character, possibly a servant or peasant.
- [Voronok](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/voronok.md): A minor character, possibly a nickname for a spy or informant.
- [Kerbakh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/kerbakh.md): A government or police official.
- [Prince Davidov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/prince_davidov.md): A prince who appears in society scenes.
- [Borodulin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/borodulin.md): A minor character, possibly a merchant or official.
- [Nadezhda Vestchezerova](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/nadezhda_vestchezerova.md): A young woman with a poetic and melancholic nature.
- [Poterin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/poterin.md): Another police inspector involved in the investigation.
- [Bodeyev](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/bodeyev.md): A school instructor or tutor.
- [Krovlin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/krovlin.md): A minor character, possibly a revolutionary or criminal.
- [Ksenofont Polupavlov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/ksenofont_polupavlov.md): A minor character with a distinctive name.

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