The Deluge · Character

Pan Kharlamp

A colonel with a soldier's eye and a storyteller's tongue, forever embellishing the disasters he has just lived through.

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Also known as Kharlamp, poor Kharlamp

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Brings news of Prince Radzivill's preparations and the arrest of Gosyevski and Yudytski.

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Pan Kharlamp arrives from Sapyeha's camp to report a catastrophe, and cannot resist dressing it up—bucket-sized cannonballs, feasts, and all—until Charnyetski cuts him off. He is a witness whose honesty is real but whose vanity keeps inflating the tale, and the older officers tease him for it even as they press him for facts. He matters as the novel's channel for the war's grim news, delivered in a voice that is half report and half performance.

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

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Aftermath
Closing

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XIII
Brings news of Prince Radzivill's preparations and the arrest of Gosyevski and Yudytski.
Chapter XV
An old, worn-out soldier mentioned as one of the few Polish adherents who responded to Radzivill, but of limited influence.
XVI
Mentioned as wounded during the fighting; his dragoons are involved in the mutiny.
XXII
Meets Kmita in the corridor, discusses the prince's health and the growing discontent among the nobles, and informs Kmita about the sword-bearer and Olenka's arrival.
XXV
Joins the farewell drinking, recounts his own past love and advice about forgetting, and mentions Volodyovski and Bogun.
XXVI
Briefly referenced in Kmita's thoughts about the road being a cure for cares.
XXXIV
Mentioned as leading dragoons in the prince's forces.
LVI
The loyal officer who stayed with Radzivill until the end, surrenders his sabre and confesses his love for the prince.
LIX
Provides key information about Olenka's location in Taurogi and Boguslav's likely movements.
LXXVII
Arrives exhausted with news from Sapyeha, recounts the failed siege and Sapyeha's feasting.

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