# Tatiana Ostapenko — The Faraway Bride character guide

> Tatiana Ostapenko in The Faraway Bride by Stella Benson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Miss Ostapenko, Tatiana Pavlovna Ostapenko, Tatiana, IV Tatiana Pavlovna Ostapenko

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Snapshot

A beautiful, shy, much-betrothed young woman whom Alexander Petrovitch Weber calls dead, and who whistles like a boy while she irons.

## Who they are

Tatiana is Miss Ostapenko of Mi-san, near Seoul, a fortune and a beauty who has been betrothed seven times and married, some say, to a devil. Wilfred Chew finds her pure and icelike, a little like the late Queen Alexandra; Seryozha would rather be alive with Sonia Matvievna than dead with Tatiana Pavlovna. In her mother's studied Japanese garden, her whistling runs like a rill of coolness through the September heat, and in Pavel's parlour her stare with Seryozha builds a thin glass globe no one else can enter.

## Relationships

### [Seryozha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/characters/seryozha)

_romantic_

Seryozha and Tatiana Ostapenko are involved in a romantic relationship, with frequent interactions suggesting deep affection.

### [Pavel Ostapenko](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/characters/pavel_ostapenko)

_family_

Pavel Ostapenko and Tatiana Ostapenko are father and daughter, with a familial relationship.

### [Anna Semionovna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/characters/anna_semionovna)

_family_

Anna Semionovna and Tatiana Ostapenko are likely mother and daughter or close female relatives.

### [Seryozha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/characters/seryozha)

_romantic_

Seryozha and Tatiana Ostapenko are involved in a romantic relationship, with frequent interactions suggesting deep affection.

### [Anna Semionovna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/characters/anna_semionovna)

_family_

Anna Semionovna and Tatiana Ostapenko are likely mother and daughter or close female relatives.

### [Anna Semionovna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/characters/anna_semionovna)

_family_

Anna Semionovna and Tatiana Ostapenko are likely mother and daughter or close female relatives.

### [Seryozha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/characters/seryozha)

_romantic_

Seryozha and Tatiana Ostapenko are involved in a romantic relationship, with frequent interactions suggesting deep affection.

### [Pavel Ostapenko](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/characters/pavel_ostapenko)

_family_

Pavel Ostapenko and Tatiana Ostapenko are father and daughter, with a familial relationship.

### [Pavel Ostapenko](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/characters/pavel_ostapenko)

_family_

Pavel Ostapenko and Tatiana Ostapenko are father and daughter, with a familial relationship.

## In the story

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

Tatiana is washing clothes with Katya, feeling disconnected and alienated. She struggles with social interaction, experiences existential despair, and nearly collapses.

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

Referenced as the heiress of Mi-san with seven failed marriage attempts, whom Wilfred considers as a match for Seryozha.

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

Tatiana is physically and verbally attacked by her father, Pavel, who blames her for Sasha Weber's suicide. She reflects on pain, death, and the separateness of individuals, feeling both anger and pride toward her father.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/chapters/viii)

Sits quietly, lost in thought; her betrothed Alexander Weber's suicide is discussed; she shows little emotion, instead musing on matchbox pictures and the nature of flesh.

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

Referred to as 'death' by Alexander; Seryozha has married her; Anna blames her for drawing Seryozha away.

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

Shares a wordless, intimate bond with Seryozha during dinner, broken when her mother leads her away.

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

Walks with Seryozha after their night together; a new 'taking-for-granted' bond forms between them.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/chapters/xii)

Referenced as the woman Saggay Saggayitch married, causing anger in the Isaev family.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/chapters/xiii)

Passively resists her father's authority, lives in the present, and values the dog's dignity over her own comfort.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_faraway_bride_se/chapters/xiv)

Sits in the new temple, speaks kindly but warily to Anna, and strokes her arm in a tentative gesture.

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