# Marína — The Power of Darkness character guide

> Marína in The Power of Darkness by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** little Marína, Marína Alone

**First appearance:** 0002-act-i

## Snapshot

Nikíta's former sweetheart, now married to another man, who meets him by the barn and hears a despair she has already wept her own way past.

## Who they are

Marína once loved Nikíta during their nights at the railway, and now she is a settled wife who has confessed her past and been forgiven by a kind, quiet husband. When Nikíta pours out his misery, she answers with hard-won calm, refusing to reopen old wounds even as he calls her the only person he ever truly lived with. Her steadiness throws his unraveling into relief, and her refusal to be drawn back makes his isolation complete.

## Relationships

### [Nikíta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_power_of_darkness_se/characters/nikita)

_romantic_

Marína was Nikíta's former lover, and he abandoned her and their child, leaving her heartbroken and bitter.

### [Peter Ignátitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_power_of_darkness_se/characters/peter_ignatitch)

_social_

Marína is a former servant of Peter Ignátitch, and their interactions are brief and formal, tinged with her past connection to Nikíta.

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