The Naked Year (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Boris Andreyevich Vogau
- First Published: 1922
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Early twentieth century
- Setting: Russia
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Twentieth century, Revolutions, Oppression, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Disasters, Natural disasters, Russia or Russian people, Merchants, Russian Revolution, Famines
- Locales: Russia
Characters Discussed
Donat Ratchin (doh-NAHT RAHT-chihn), a young Russian during the Bolshevik Revolution. Although he has planned to follow his father as a merchant, he returns from the war to become the head of a revolutionary commune in Ordynin Town.
Ivan Ratchin (ih-VAHN), Donat’s autocratic father; he breaks up Donat’s brief affair with a pretty maid but sends the housekeeper to his son’s bed.
Nastia (NAHS-tyuh), a pretty young maid, briefly Donat’s mistress.
Olly Kuntz (OHL-lih kewnts), a young woman who prints blank orders for arrest and...
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