# Elena — The Created Legend character guide

> Elena in The Created Legend by Fyodor Sologub.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the charming Elena

**First appearance:** 0007-vi

## Snapshot

The charming Elena, whose frank gaze and gay smile unsettle her cousin Piotr's jealous certainties about love, marriage, and the strange visitor Trirodov.

## Who they are

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 deflates him with a light joke—'it's only just a little as far as I am concerned'—revealing a temperament that refuses to be managed by other people's anxieties. Her easy independence makes her a quiet counterweight to the household's mounting hysteria over the mysterious visitor.

## Relationships

### [Elisaveta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/elisaveta)

_family_

Elena is Elisaveta's sister, and their relationship is marked by deep affection but also tension due to their contrasting personalities.

### [Matov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/matov)

_romantic_

Elena is romantically involved with Matov, though their relationship is complicated by Matov's obsession with Elisaveta.

### [Ostrov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/ostrov)

_social_

Elena and Ostrov have a formal, distant relationship, meeting occasionally in social or political contexts.

### [Ostrov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/ostrov)

_social_

Elena and Ostrov have a formal, distant relationship, meeting occasionally in social or political contexts.

### [Elisaveta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/elisaveta)

_family_

Elena is Elisaveta's sister, and their relationship is marked by deep affection but also tension due to their contrasting personalities.

### [Elisaveta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/elisaveta)

_family_

Elena is Elisaveta's sister, and their relationship is marked by deep affection but also tension due to their contrasting personalities.

### [Matov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/matov)

_romantic_

Elena is romantically involved with Matov, though their relationship is complicated by Matov's obsession with Elisaveta.

### [Ostrov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/characters/ostrov)

_social_

Elena and Ostrov have a formal, distant relationship, meeting occasionally in social or political contexts.

## In the story

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

The younger sister, plump and cheerful, also bathing and curious about Trirodov; enjoys dressing and adornment.

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

The other Rameyev sister, she is more approving of the colony's instructresses and curious about Trirodov's estate.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/iii)

The other sister, more excitable and playful; she enjoys the strange objects and is frightened by the mirror but quickly recovers.

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

Elisaveta's sister, participates in the dinner conversation.

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

Present at the riverside, feels sad and wants to cry.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/vi)

Elena is Elisaveta's sister who shares the adjacent bedroom and wakes Elisaveta from her nightmare.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/vii)

Shares Elisaveta's confusion and forgetfulness about the visit; waits with her sister for Trirodov's arrival.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/ix)

Walks with Elisaveta, feels virginal intoxication and love for everything, especially Piotr, and is frightened by Ostrov's sudden appearance.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/xi)

Present at dinner, shows interest in Trirodov, teases Piotr about his jealousy.

### [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/xviii)

Present at supper, blushes and moves closer to Piotr. He begins to feel a new affection for her.

### [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/xxiii)

Elena is also searched and shivers with fear and nausea.

### [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/xxvii)

Rejoices with Elisaveta over her love and is glad for her, while also pitying Piotr.

## Links

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