Oktiabr’ Shestnadtsatogo (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: August through early November of 1918
- Setting: Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Byelorussian and Ukrainian countryside, and Zurich
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Politics, Music or musicians, Revolutions, Antiheroes, 1910’s, World War I, Russia or Russian people, Moscow, Switzerland or Swiss people, Russian Revolution
- Locales: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, Zurich, Switzerland, St. Petersburg, Russia, Byelorussia
Characters Discussed
Georgij Mikhailych Vorotyntsev (geh- OHR-gee mih-KHAH-lihch voh-roh- TIHN-tsehv), a dedicated army career officer. A stout, clean-shaven, stoic, and trustworthy man of action, he is educated and perceptive but not one of the intelligentsia. He is a patriot and a good commander, admired by his soldiers, but his understanding of the people’s wartime desperation leads him to call for a truce. He leaves the front to visit his family and friends in the rear. The decadence and chaos of life in Moscow and St. Petersburg lead him to a growing skepticism about the...
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