# Lieutenant-Colonel Liech — The Duel character guide

> Lieutenant-Colonel Liech in The Duel by Aleksandr Kuprin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Liech, Only Liech, Colonel Liech, Old Liech, Lieutenant-Colonel Liekh, Liekh

**First appearance:** 0000-i

## Who they are

An eccentric, reclusive senior officer with a mysterious past.

## In the story

### [Chapter VIII: The Officers' Mess Ball and the Duel Debate](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_duel_2_se/chapters/viii)

Liech attempts to tell a long-winded story about an American duel but is repeatedly interrupted. He eventually drags Romashov aside to listen, but fails to finish the tale.

### [Chapter IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_duel_2_se/chapters/ix)

Drunk, wobbling, and claiming to be an archbishop.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_duel_2_se/chapters/x)

Mentioned as having intervened when Romashov was being berated by Artschakovski.

### [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_duel_2_se/chapters/xix)

Old Liech, initially asleep, wakes up sober and severe, ordering all officers to leave the mess and report to the regimental commander.

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