# Simon Yakovlevich Horizon — Yama character guide

> Simon Yakovlevich Horizon in Yama by Aleksandr Kuprin.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Simon Yakovlevich, Horizon

**First appearance:** 0005-yama

## Who they are

A polished, calculating patron of the brothel whose grand theories about rescuing fallen women mask a colder appetite for control and self-regard.

## In the story

### [Yama The Pit Part I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/yama_se/chapters/yama)

A pimp who arrives in the city to trade women, influencing the brothel's operations.

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

Traveling salesman and pimp who networks with a landowner and corrupts a young sublieutenant with pornographic cards and promises of women.

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

Revealed as a ruthless trafficker of women, having sold his first mistress into a brothel and built a career on exploitation.

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

Arrives in the city and engages in the trade of women, bargaining with Madame Barsukova and offering his own wife as part of the deal.

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

Arrives and orchestrates the demotion of women between brothels, using cynical persuasion and biblical citation.

## Links

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