# Nan — The Power of Darkness character guide

> Nan in The Power of Darkness by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Nan Daddy, Nan What bogey, Nan Sees Nikíta, Nan Mother, Nan Blest, Nan Germans

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

## Snapshot

A child who tugs at Nikíta's hand and begs him to come bless the wedding, unknowingly pulling him toward the very rite his guilt cannot face.

## Who they are

Nan moves through the feast as a small, insistent messenger, sent to fetch her father when the guests grow impatient and the blessings are overdue. She is too young to read the terror in his silence, and her innocent persistence—threatening to fetch her mother when he refuses—only tightens the trap closing around him. Her presence turns an ordinary wedding custom into a quiet ordeal, showing how the smallest witness can make a guilty man's hiding place unbearable.

## Relationships

### [Akoulína](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_power_of_darkness_se/characters/akoulina)

_family_

Nan is Akoulína's younger half-sister (Anísya's daughter), and Akoulína cares for her despite the family tension.

### [Anísya](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_power_of_darkness_se/characters/anisya)

_family_

Nan is Anísya's young daughter, and Anísya is a neglectful mother, more focused on her affair with Nikíta.

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