# Ernst Andreievich Ryazanov — Yama character guide

> Ernst Andreievich Ryazanov in Yama by Aleksandr Kuprin.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Ernst Andreievich

**First appearance:** 0005-yama

## Snapshot

A listless gentleman with an enchanting voice, he answers Rovinskaya's contempt for the evening with a weary plea that mirth has vanished and people deserve patience.

## Who they are

Ryazanov sits among the brothel's guests as the one who refuses to sneer, sipping his goblet and answering the baroness's boredom with the melancholy claim that youth and laughter have left human life for good. His soft, disarming voice and his willingness to imagine that the present evening might be a holiday for those below mark him as the party's reluctant conscience. He matters because his defense of patience—half genuine, half exhausted—frames the moral question the novel keeps asking about the women of the Yamkas.

## In the story

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/yama_se/chapters/part-ii-vi)

A famous lawyer with a velvety voice, he engages in philosophical banter about cruelty and the nature of spectacle.

### [Chapter VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/yama_se/chapters/part-ii-vii)

Part of the visiting group, he bribes Simeon to let them into Anna Markovna's establishment.

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