Russian literature has given us a cavalcade of both positive and negative characters. We decided to remember the second group. Beware, spoilers.
20. Alexey Molchalin (Alexander Griboedov, “Woe from Wit”)
Molchalin is the hero “about nothing”, Famusov’s secretary. He is faithful to his father’s behest: “to please all people without exception - the owner, the boss, his servant, the janitor’s dog.”
In a conversation with Chatsky, he sets out his life principles, consisting in the fact that “at my age I should not dare to have my own judgment.”
Molchalin is sure that you need to think and act as is customary in “Famus” society, otherwise they will gossip about you, and, as you know, “ evil tongues worse than pistols."
He despises Sophia, but in order to please Famusov, he is ready to sit with her all night long, playing the role of a lover.
19. Grushnitsky (Mikhail Lermontov, “Hero of Our Time”)
Grushnitsky has no name in Lermontov's story. He is the “double” of the main character - Pechorin. According to Lermontov’s description, Grushnitsky is “... one of those people who have ready-made pompous phrases for all occasions, who are not touched by simply beautiful things and who are importantly draped in extraordinary feelings, sublime passions and exceptional suffering. Producing an effect is their pleasure...”
Grushnitsky loves pathos very much. There is not an ounce of sincerity in him. Grushnitsky is in love with Princess Mary, and she initially answers him special attention, but then falls in love with Pechorin.
The matter ends in a duel. Grushnitsky is so low that he conspires with his friends and they do not load Pechorin’s pistol. The hero cannot forgive such outright meanness. He reloads the pistol and kills Grushnitsky.
18. Afanasy Totsky (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Idiot”)
Afanasy Totsky, having taken Nastya Barashkova, the daughter of a deceased neighbor, as his upbringing and dependent, eventually “became close to her,” developing a suicidal complex in the girl and indirectly becoming one of the culprits of her death.
Extremely averse to the female sex, at the age of 55 Totsky decided to connect his life with the daughter of General Epanchin Alexandra, deciding to marry Nastasya to Ganya Ivolgin. However, neither one nor the other case burned out. As a result, Totsky “was captivated by a visiting Frenchwoman, a marquise and a legitimist.”
17. Alena Ivanovna (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”)
The old pawnbroker is a character who has become a household name. Even those who have not read Dostoevsky’s novel have heard about it. Alena Ivanovna, by today’s standards, is not that old, she is “about 60 years old,” but the author describes her like this: “... a dry old woman with sharp and angry eyes with a small pointed nose... Her blond, slightly gray hair was greasy with oil. Around her thin and long neck, similar to a chicken leg, there was some kind of flannel rag tied ... "
The old woman pawnbroker is engaged in usury and makes money from people's grief. She takes valuable things at huge interest rates, bullies her younger sister Lizaveta, and beats her.
16. Arkady Svidrigailov (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”)
Svidrigailov is one of Raskolnikov’s doubles in Dostoevsky’s novel, a widower, at one time he was bought out of prison by his wife, he lived in the village for 7 years. A cynical and depraved person. On his conscience is the suicide of a servant, a 14-year-old girl, and possibly the poisoning of his wife.
Due to Svidrigailov's harassment, Raskolnikov's sister lost her job. Having learned that Raskolnikov is a murderer, Luzhin blackmails Dunya. The girl shoots at Svidrigailov and misses.
Svidrigailov is an ideological scoundrel, he does not experience moral torment and experiences “world boredom,” eternity seems to him like a “bathhouse with spiders.” As a result, he commits suicide with a revolver shot.
15. Kabanikha (Alexander Ostrovsky, “The Thunderstorm”)
In the image of Kabanikha, one of central characters Ostrovsky's play "The Thunderstorm" reflected the outgoing patriarchal, strict archaism. Kabanova Marfa Ignatievna, “a rich merchant’s wife, widow,” mother-in-law of Katerina, mother of Tikhon and Varvara.
Kabanikha is very domineering and strong, she is religious, but more outwardly, since she does not believe in forgiveness or mercy. She is as practical as possible and lives by earthly interests.
Kabanikha is sure that family life can survive only on fear and orders: “After all, out of love your parents are strict with you, out of love they scold you, everyone thinks to teach you good.” She perceives the departure of the old order as a personal tragedy: “This is how the old times come to be... What will happen, how the elders will die... I don’t know.”
14. Lady (Ivan Turgenev, “Mumu”)
We all know sad story about the fact that Gerasim drowned Mumu, but not everyone remembers why he did it, but he did it because the despotic lady ordered him to do so.
The same landowner had previously given the washerwoman Tatyana, with whom Gerasim was in love, to the drunken shoemaker Capiton, which ruined both of them.
The lady, at her own discretion, decides the fate of her serfs, without regard at all to their wishes, and sometimes even to common sense.
13. Footman Yasha (Anton Chekhov, “The Cherry Orchard”)
Footman Yasha in Anton Chekhov's play " Cherry Orchard" - an unpleasant character. He openly worships everything foreign, while he is extremely ignorant, rude and even boorish. When his mother comes to him from the village and waits for him in the people’s room all day, Yasha dismissively declares: “It’s really necessary, she could come tomorrow.”
Yasha tries to behave decently in public, tries to seem educated and well-mannered, but at the same time alone with Firs he says to the old man: “I'm tired of you, grandfather. I wish you would die soon.”
Yasha is very proud that he lived abroad. With his foreign polish, he wins the heart of the maid Dunyasha, but uses her location for his own benefit. After the sale of the estate, the footman persuades Ranevskaya to take him with her to Paris again. It is impossible for him to stay in Russia: “the country is uneducated, the people are immoral, and, moreover, boredom...”.
12. Pavel Smerdyakov (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”)
Smerdyakov is a character with a telling surname, rumored to be the illegitimate son of Fyodor Karrmazov from the city holy fool Lizaveta Smerdyashchaya. The surname Smerdyakov was given to him by Fyodor Pavlovich in honor of his mother.
Smerdyakov serves as a cook in Karamazov’s house, and he cooks, apparently, quite well. However, this is a “foulbrood man.” This is evidenced at least by Smerdyakov’s reasoning about history: “In the twelfth year there was a great invasion of Russia by Emperor Napoleon of France the First, and it would be good if these same French had conquered us then, a smart nation would have conquered a very stupid one and annexed it to itself. There would even be completely different orders.”
Smerdyakov is the killer of Karamazov's father.
11. Pyotr Luzhin (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Crime and Punishment”)
Luzhin is another one of Rodion Raskolnikov’s doubles, a business man of 45 years old, “with a cautious and grumpy physiognomy.”
Having made it “from rags to riches,” Luzhin is proud of his pseudo-education and behaves arrogantly and primly. Having proposed to Dunya, he anticipates that she will be grateful to him all her life for the fact that he “brought her into the public eye.”
He also wooes Duna out of convenience, believing that she will be useful to him for his career. Luzhin hates Raskolnikov because he opposes his alliance with Dunya. Luzhin puts one hundred rubles in Sonya Marmeladova's pocket at her father's funeral, accusing her of theft.
10. Kirila Troekurov (Alexander Pushkin, “Dubrovsky”)
Troekurov is an example of a Russian master spoiled by his power and environment. He spends his time in idleness, drunkenness, and voluptuousness. Troekurov sincerely believes in his impunity and limitless possibilities(“This is the power to take away property without any right”).
The master loves his daughter Masha, but marries her to an old man she doesn’t love. Troekurov's serfs are similar to their master - Troekurov's hound is insolent to Dubrovsky Sr. - and thereby quarrels old friends.
9. Sergei Talberg (Mikhail Bulgakov, “The White Guard”)
Sergei Talberg is the husband of Elena Turbina, a traitor and an opportunist. He easily changes his principles and beliefs, without much effort or remorse. Talberg is always where it is easier to live, so he runs abroad. He leaves his family and friends. Even Talberg’s eyes (which, as you know, are the “mirror of the soul”) are “two-story”; he is the complete opposite of Turbin.
Thalberg was the first to wear the red bandage at the military school in March 1917 and, as a member of the military committee, arrested the famous General Petrov.
8. Alexey Shvabrin (Alexander Pushkin, “The Captain's Daughter”)
Shvabrin is the antipode of the main character of Pushkin’s story “ Captain's daughter» Petra Grinev. He was exiled to the Belogorsk fortress for murder in a duel. Shvabrin is undoubtedly smart, but at the same time he is cunning, impudent, cynical, and mocking. Having received Masha Mironova’s refusal, he spreads dirty rumors about her, wounds him in the back in a duel with Grinev, goes over to Pugachev’s side, and, having been captured by government troops, spreads rumors that Grinev is a traitor. In general, he is a rubbish person.
7. Vasilisa Kostyleva (Maxim Gorky, “At the Depths”)
In Gorky's play "At the Bottom" everything is sad and sad. This atmosphere is diligently maintained by the owners of the shelter where the action takes place - the Kostylevs. The husband is a nasty, cowardly and greedy old man, his wife Vasilisa is a calculating, resourceful opportunist who forces her lover Vaska Pepel to steal for her sake. When she finds out that he himself is in love with her sister, he promises to give her up in exchange for killing her husband.
6. Mazepa (Alexander Pushkin, “Poltava”)
Mazepa is a historical character, but if in history Mazepa’s role is ambiguous, then in Pushkin’s poem Mazepa is definitely a negative character. Mazepa appears in the poem as an absolutely immoral, dishonest, vindictive, evil person, as a treacherous hypocrite for whom nothing is sacred (he “does not know the sacred,” “does not remember charity”), a person accustomed to achieving his goal at any cost.
The seducer of his young goddaughter Maria, he puts her father Kochubey to public execution and - already sentenced to death - subjects her to cruel torture in order to find out where he hid his treasures. Without equivocation, Pushkin also denounces Mazepa’s political activity, which is determined only by the lust for power and the thirst for revenge on Peter.
5. Foma Opiskin (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Village of Stepanchikovo and its Inhabitants”)
Foma Opiskin is an extremely negative character. A hanger-on, a hypocrite, a liar. He diligently pretends to be pious and educated, tells everyone about his supposedly ascetic experience and sparkles with quotes from books...
When he gets power into his hands, he shows his true essence. “A low soul, having come out from under oppression, oppresses itself. Thomas was oppressed - and he immediately felt the need to oppress himself; They broke down over him - and he himself began to break down over others. He was a jester and immediately felt the need to have his own jesters. He boasted to the point of absurdity, broke down to the point of impossibility, demanded bird's milk, tyrannized beyond measure, and it got to the point where good people, not having yet witnessed all these tricks, but listening only to tales, they considered it all a miracle, an obsession, crossed themselves and spat on it...”
4. Viktor Komarovsky (Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago)
Lawyer Komarovsky is a negative character in Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago. In the destinies of the main characters - Zhivago and Lara, Komarovsky is " evil genius" and "gray eminence". He is guilty of the ruin of the Zhivago family and the death of the protagonist's father; he cohabits with Lara's mother and Lara herself. Finally, Komarovsky tricks Zhivago into separating him from his wife. Komarovsky is smart, calculating, greedy, cynical. In general, bad person. He understands this himself, but this suits him quite well.
3. Judushka Golovlev (Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, “The Golovlev Lords”)
Porfiry Vladimirovich Golovlev, nicknamed Judas and Blood Drinker, is “the last representative of an escapist family.” He is hypocritical, greedy, cowardly, calculating. He spends his life in endless slander and litigation, drives his son to suicide, and at the same time imitates extreme religiosity, reading prayers “without the participation of the heart.”
Toward the end of his dark life, Golovlev gets drunk and runs wild, and goes into the March snowstorm. In the morning, his frozen corpse is found.
2. Andriy (Nikolai Gogol, “Taras Bulba”)
Andriy - youngest son Taras Bulba, the hero of the story of the same name by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Andriy, as Gogol writes, from early youth began to feel the “need for love.” This need fails him. He falls in love with the lady, betrays his homeland, his friends, and his father. Andriy admits: “Who said that my homeland is Ukraine? Who gave it to me in my homeland? The Fatherland is what our soul is looking for, what is dearer to it than anything else. My fatherland is you!... and I will sell, give away, and destroy everything that I have for such a fatherland!”
Andriy is a traitor. He is killed by his own father.
1. Fyodor Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov”)
He is voluptuous, greedy, envious, stupid. By maturity he became flabby, began to drink a lot, opened several taverns, made many fellow countrymen his debtors... He began to compete with his eldest son Dmitry for the heart of Grushenka Svetlova, which paved the way for the crime - Karamazov was killed by his illegitimate son Pyotr Smerdyakov.
I continue the series “Literary Heroes” that I once started...
Heroes of Russian literature
Almost every literary character has its own prototype - a real person. Sometimes it is the author himself (Ostrovsky and Pavka Korchagin, Bulgakov and the Master), sometimes it is a historical figure, sometimes it is an acquaintance or relative of the author.
This story is about the prototypes of Chatsky and Taras Bulba, Ostap Bender, Timur and other heroes of the books...
1.Chatsky "Woe from Wit"
The main character of Griboyedov's comedy - Chatsky- most often associated with a name Chaadaeva(in the first version of the comedy Griboyedov wrote “Chadsky”), although the image of Chatsky is in many ways social type era, "hero of the time."
Petr Yakovlevich Chaadaev(1796-1856) - participant Patriotic War 1812, was on a trip abroad. In 1814 he joined the Masonic lodge, and in 1821 he agreed to join a secret society.
From 1823 to 1826, Chaadaev traveled around Europe, comprehending the latest philosophical teachings. After returning to Russia in 1828-1830, he wrote and published a historical and philosophical treatise: “Philosophical Letters.” The views, ideas, and judgments of the thirty-six-year-old philosopher turned out to be so unacceptable for Nicholas Russia that the author of “Philosophical Letters” suffered an unprecedented punishment: by the highest decree he was declared crazy. It so happened that the literary character did not repeat the fate of his prototype, but predicted it...
2.Taras Bulba
Taras Bulba is written so organically and vividly that the reader cannot leave the feeling of his reality.
But there was a man whose fate was similar to the fate of Gogol’s hero. And this man also had the surname Gogol!
Ostap Gogol born in early XVII century. On the eve of 1648, he was the captain of the “panzer” Cossacks in the Polish army stationed in Uman under the command of S. Kalinovsky. With the outbreak of the uprising, Gogol, along with his heavy cavalry, went over to the side of the Cossacks. 
In October 1657, Hetman Vygovsky with the general foreman, of which Ostap Gogol was a member, concluded the Korsun Treaty of Ukraine with Sweden.
In the summer of 1660, Ostap's regiment took part in the Chudnivsky campaign, after which the Slobodishchensky Treaty was signed. Gogol took the side of autonomy within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he was made a gentry.
In 1664, an uprising broke out against the Poles and the hetman in Right Bank Ukraine Teteri. Gogol initially supported the rebels. However, he again went over to the enemy's side. The reason for this was his sons, whom Hetman Potocki held hostage in Lvov. When Doroshenko became hetman, Gogol came under his mace and helped him a lot. When he fought with the Turks near Ochakov, Doroshenko at the Rada proposed recognizing the supremacy Turkish Sultan, and it was accepted.
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At the end of 1671, Crown Hetman Sobieski took Mogilev, Gogol's residence. One of Ostap’s sons died during the defense of the fortress. The colonel himself fled to Moldova and from there sent Sobieski a letter of his desire to submit.
As a reward for this, Ostap received the village of Vilkhovets. The certificate of the estate's salary served the grandfather of the writer Nikolai Gogol as evidence of his nobility.
Colonel Gogol became Hetman of Right Bank Ukraine on behalf of King John III Sobieski. He died in 1679 at his residence in Dymer and was buried in the Kiev-Mezhigorsky Monastery near Kyiv.
Analogy with the story is obvious: both heroes are Zaporozhye colonels, both had sons, one of whom died at the hands of the Poles, the other went over to the side of the enemy. Thus, a distant ancestor of the writer and was the prototype of Taras Bulba.
3.Plyushkin
Oryol landowner Spiridon Matsnev he was extremely stingy, walked around in a greasy robe and dirty clothes, so that few could recognize him as a rich gentleman.
The landowner had 8,000 peasant souls, but starved not only them, but also himself. 
N.V. Gogol brought this stingy landowner to “ Dead souls"in the image of Plyushkin. “If Chichikov had met him, so dressed up, somewhere at the church door, he would probably have given him a copper penny”...
“This landowner had more than a thousand souls, and anyone else would try to find so much bread in grain, flour and simply in storerooms, whose storerooms, barns and drying rooms were cluttered with so many linens, cloth, dressed and rawhide sheepskins...” .
The image of Plyushkin became a household name.
4. Silvio
“Shot” A.S. Pushkin
Silvio's prototype is Ivan Petrovich Liprandi.
Pushkin's friend, the prototype of Silvio in "The Shot".
Author of the best memoirs about Pushkin's southern exile.
The son of a Russified Spanish grandee. Participant in the Napoleonic wars since 1807 (from the age of 17). Colleague and friend of the Decembrist Raevsky, member of the Union of Welfare. Arrested in the Decembrist case in January 1826, he was in a cell with Griboedov. 
“...His personality was of undoubted interest due to his talents, fate and original way of life. He was gloomy and gloomy, but he loved to gather officers at his place and entertain them widely. The sources of his income were shrouded in mystery to everyone. A book reader and a book lover, he was famous for his brawling, and a rare duel took place without his participation."
Pushkin "Shot" 
At the same time, Liprandi turned out to be an employee of military intelligence and the secret police.
Since 1813, the head of the secret political police under Vorontsov’s army in France. He communicated closely with the famous Vidocq. Together with the French gendarmerie, he participated in the disclosure of the anti-government “Pin Society”. Since 1820, the chief military intelligence officer at the headquarters of Russian troops in Bessarabia. At the same time, he became the main theorist and practitioner of military and political espionage.
Since 1828 - head of the Higher Secret Foreign Police. Since 1820 - directly subordinate to Benckendorf. Organizer of provocation in the Butashevich-Petrashevsky circle. Organizer of Ogarev's arrest in 1850. Author of a project to establish a spy school at universities...
5.Andrey Bolkonsky
Prototypes Andrey Bolkonsky there were several. His tragic death was “copied” by Leo Tolstoy from the biography of a real prince Dmitry Golitsyn.
Prince Dmitry Golitsyn was registered for service in the Moscow archive of the Ministry of Justice. Soon Emperor Alexander I granted him the rank of chamberlain cadet, and then actual chamberlain, which was equivalent to the rank of general. 
In 1805, Prince Golitsyn entered the military service and together with the army went through the campaigns of 1805-1807.
In 1812, he submitted a report with a request to enlist in the army, became an Akhtyrsky hussar; Denis Davydov also served in the same regiment. Golitsin took part in border battles as part of the 2nd Russian army of General Bagration, fought at the Shevardinsky redoubt, and then found himself on the left flank of the Russian formations on the Borodino field.
In one of the skirmishes, Major Golitsyn was seriously wounded by a grenade fragment., he was carried from the battlefield. After the operation in the field hospital, it was decided to take the wounded man further east.
"Bolkonsky House" in Vladimir. 
They made a stop in Vladimir, Major Golitsyn was placed in one of the merchant houses on a steep hill on Klyazma. But, almost a month after the Battle of Borodino, Dmitry Golitsyn died in Vladimir...
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Soviet literature
6. Assol
The gentle dreamer Assol had more than one prototype.
First prototype - Maria Sergeevna Alonkina, secretary of the House of Arts, almost everyone living and visiting this House was in love with her.
One day, while climbing the stairs to his office, Green saw a short, dark-skinned girl talking with Korney Chukovsky.
There was something unearthly in her appearance: flying gait, radiant look, ringing happy laugh. It seemed to him that she looked like Assol from the story “ Scarlet Sails", which he was working on at the time.
The image of 17-year-old Masha Alonkina occupied Green's imagination and was reflected in the extravaganza story. 
“I don’t know how many years will pass, but in Kaperna one fairy tale will bloom, memorable for a long time. You will be big, Assol. One morning, in the sea distance, a scarlet sail will sparkle under the sun. The shining bulk of the scarlet sails of the white ship will move, cutting through the waves, straight towards you..."
And in 1921 Green met with Nina Nikolaevna Mironova, who worked for the Petrograd Echo newspaper. He, gloomy and lonely, was at ease with her, he was amused by her coquetry, he admired her love of life. Soon they got married.
The door is closed, the lamp is lit.
She will come to me in the evening
There are no more aimless, dull days -
I sit and think about her...
On this day she will give me her hand,
I trust quietly and completely.
A terrible world is raging around,
Come, beautiful, dear friend.
Come, I've been waiting for you for a long time.
It was so sad and dark
But the winter spring has come,
Light knock...My wife came.
Green dedicated the extravaganza “Scarlet Sails” and the novel “The Shining World” to her, his “winter spring.”
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7. Ostap Bender and the Children of Lieutenant Schmidt
The person who became the prototype of Ostap Bender is known.
This - Osip (Ostap) Veniaminovich Shor(1899 -1979). Shor was born in Odessa, was an employee of the UGRO, a football player, a traveler... Was a friend E. Bagritsky, Y. Olesha, Ilf and Petrov. His brother was the futurist poet Nathan Fioletov.
The appearance, character and speech of Ostap Bender are taken from Osip Shor.
Almost all the famous “Bendery” phrases - “The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury!”, “I will command the parade!”, “My dad was a Turkish subject...” and many others - were gleaned by the authors from Shor’s vocabulary.
In 1917, Shor entered the first year of the Petrograd Technological Institute, and in 1919 he left for his homeland. He got home almost two years, with many adventures, which I talked about the authors of "The Twelve Chairs".
The stories they told about how he, unable to draw, got a job as an artist on a propaganda ship, or about how he gave a simultaneous game in some remote town, introducing himself as an international grandmaster, were reflected in “12 Chairs” practically unchanged.
By the way, the famous leader of the Odessa bandits, Teddy Bear, which UGRO employee Shor fought, became the prototype Benny Krika, from " Odessa stories" by I. Babel.
And here is the episode that gave rise to the creation of the image "children of Lieutenant Schmidt."
In August 1925, a man with an oriental appearance, decently dressed, wearing American glasses, appeared at the Gomel Provincial Executive Committee and introduced himself Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Uzbek SSR Fayzula Khojaev. He told the chairman of the provincial executive committee, Egorov, that he was traveling from Crimea to Moscow, but his money and documents were stolen on the train. Instead of a passport, he presented a certificate that he was really Khodzhaev, signed by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Crimean Republic, Ibragimov.
He was received warmly, given money, and began to be taken to theaters and banquets. But one of the police chiefs decided to compare the Uzbek’s personality with the portraits of the chairmen of the Central Election Commission, which he found in an old magazine. Thus, the false Khojaev was exposed, who turned out to be a native of Kokand, traveling from Tbilisi, where he was serving his sentence...
In the same way, posing as a high-ranking official, the former prisoner had fun in Yalta, Simferopol, Novorossiysk, Kharkov, Poltava, Minsk...
It was a fun time - the time of the NEP and such desperate people, adventurers as Shor and the false Khojaev.
Later I will write separately about Bender...
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8.Timur
TIMUR is the hero of the film script and A. Gaidar’s story “Timur and His Team.” One of the most famous and popular heroes Soviet children's literature of the 30s - 40s.
Under the influence of the story by A.P. Gaidar “Timur and his team” in the USSR arose among pioneers and schoolchildren in the early years. 1940s "Timurov movement". Timurovites provided assistance to military families, the elderly...
It is believed that the “prototype” of Timurov’s team for A. Gaidar was a group of scouts that operated back in the 10s in a dacha suburb of St. Petersburg. The “Timurovites” and the “scouts” really have a lot in common (especially in the ideology and practice of children’s “knightly” care for the people around them, the idea of committing good deeds"in secret")
The story Gaidar told turned out to be surprisingly in tune with the mood of a whole generation of guys: the fight for justice, an underground headquarters, a specific alarm system, the ability to quickly gather “in a chain,” etc. 
It is interesting that in the early edition the story was called "Duncan and his team" or “Duncan to the rescue” - the hero of the story was - Vovka Duncan. The influence of the work is obvious Jules Verne: yacht "Duncan""At the first alarm signal I went to the aid of Captain Grant.
In the spring of 1940, while working on a film based on an unfinished story, the name "Duncan" was rejected. The Cinematography Committee expressed bewilderment: “A good Soviet boy. A pioneer. He came up with such a useful game and suddenly - “Duncan”. We consulted with our comrades here - you need to change your name.”
And then Gaidar gave the hero the name of his own son, whom he called “little commander” in life. According to another version - Timur- the name of the neighbor boy. Here's a girl Zhenya received the name from Gaidar’s adopted daughter from his second marriage.
The image of Timur embodies the ideal type of a teenage leader with his desire for noble deeds, secrets, and pure ideals.
Concept "Timurovets" firmly entered into everyday life. Until the end of the 80s, Timurovites were children who provided selfless help those in need.
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9. Captain Vrungel
From the story Andrey Nekrasov "The Adventures of Captain Vrungel"".
A book about the incredible sea adventures of the resourceful and resilient captain Vrungel, his senior mate Lom and sailor Fuchs. 
Christopher Bonifatievich Vrungel- main character and the narrator on whose behalf the story is told. An experienced old sailor, with a solid and prudent character, not lacking in ingenuity.
The first part of the surname uses the word "liar". Vrungel, whose name has become a household name, is a naval analogue Baron Munchausen,
telling tall tales about his sailing adventures.
According to Nekrasov himself, the prototype of Vrungel was his acquaintance with the surname Vronsky, lover of telling maritime fables with his own participation. His last name was so suitable for the main character that the book was originally supposed to be called " The Adventures of Captain Vronsky", however, for fear of offending a friend, the author chose a different surname for the main character.
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1. What and how did the heroes of Russian classics read? Review of works and their heroes
A book is a source of knowledge - this widespread belief is familiar to, perhaps, everyone. Since ancient times, educated people who understood books have been respected and revered. In the information that has survived and survived to this day about Metropolitan Hilarion, who made a huge contribution to the development of Russian spiritual and political thought in his treatise “The Word on Law and Grace”, it is noted: “Larion is a good man, a faster and a scribe.” It is “bookish” - the most apt and most capacious word, which, probably, in the best possible way describes all the advantages and benefits educated person in front of the others. It is the book that reveals the difficult and thorny path from the Cave of Ignorance, symbolized by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato in his work "The Republic", to Wisdom. All the great Heroes and Villains of mankind drew the thick and fragrant jelly of knowledge from books. The book helps answer any question, if, of course, there is an answer to it at all. The book allows you to do the impossible, if only it is possible.
Of course, many writers and poets of the “golden age,” when characterizing their heroes, mentioned certain literary works, the names and surnames of great authors whom they either raved about, admired, or lazily read from time to time. artistic characters. Depending on certain characteristics and qualities of the hero, his book preferences and attitude towards the process of reading and education in general were also covered. Going a little beyond the time frame of the given topic, the author considers it appropriate to make a short excursion into history in order to use some examples of earlier literature to understand what and how the heroes of Russian classics read.
For example, take the comedy by D.I. Fonvizin's "Minor", in which the author ridiculed the narrow-mindedness of the landowner class, the simplicity of its life attitudes and ideals. Central theme The work was formulated by its main character, the ignorant Mitrofan Prostakov: “I don’t want to study, I want to get married!” And while Mitrofan painfully and unsuccessfully tries, at the insistence of teacher Tsyfirkin, to divide 300 rubles between three, his chosen one Sophia is engaged in self-education through reading:
Sophia: I was waiting for you, uncle. I was reading a book now.
Starodum: Which one?
Sophia: French, Fenelon, about raising girls.
Starodum: Fenelon? The author of “Telemacus”? Okay. I don’t know your book, but read it, read it. Whoever wrote “Telemacus” will not corrupt morals with his pen. I fear for you the sages of today. I happened to read everything from them that was translated into Russian. They, however, strongly eradicate prejudices and uproot virtue.
The attitude towards reading and books can be traced throughout the comedy “Woe from Wit” by A.S. Griboedova. “The most famous Muscovite of all Russian literature,” Pavel Afanasyevich Famusov, is quite critical in his assessments. Having learned that his daughter Sophia “reads everything in French, aloud, while locked,” he says:
Tell me that it’s not good to spoil her eyes,
And reading is of little use:
She can't sleep from French books,
And the Russians make it hard for me to sleep.
And he considers the reason for Chatsky’s madness solely to be teaching and books:
Once evil is stopped:
Take all the books and burn them!
Alexander Andreevich Chatsky himself reads only progressive Western literature and categorically denies authors respected in Moscow society:
I don't read nonsense
And even more exemplary.
Let's move on to more recent works of literature. In the "encyclopedia of Russian life" - the novel "Eugene Onegin" - A.S. Pushkin, characterizing his heroes as they get to know the reader, pays special attention to their literary preferences. The main character “had his hair cut in the latest fashion, like a London dandy,” “could speak and write in French perfectly,” that is, he received a brilliant education by European standards:
He knew quite a bit of Latin,
To parse epigrams,
Talk about Juvenal,
At the end of the letter put vale,
Yes, I remembered, although not without sin,
Two verses from the Aeneid.
Scolded Homer, Theocritus;
But I read Adam Smith
And he was a deep economist.
Onegin’s village neighbor, the young landowner Vladimir Lensky, “with a soul straight from Göttingen,” brought “the fruits of learning” from Germany, where he was brought up on the works of German philosophers. Particularly worried the mind young man reflections on Duty and Justice, as well as Immanuel Kant's theory of the Categorical Imperative.
Pushkin’s favorite heroine, “dear Tatyana,” was brought up in the spirit characteristic of her time and in accordance with her own romantic nature:
She liked novels early on;
They replaced everything for her;
She fell in love with deceptions
Both Richardson and Russo.
Her father was a kind fellow,
Belated in the past century;
But I saw no harm in the books;
He never reads
I considered them an empty toy
And didn't care
What is my daughter's secret volume?
I dozed under my pillow until morning.
His wife was herself
Richardson is crazy.
N.V. Gogol in the poem "Dead Souls", when introducing us to the main character, does not say anything about his literary preferences. Apparently, the collegiate adviser Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov did not have those at all, for he was “not handsome, but not of bad appearance, not too fat, not too thin; one cannot say that he is old, but not that he is too young”: mediocre gentleman. However, about the first one to whom I went for dead souls Chichikov, the landowner Manilov, knows that “in his office there was always some kind of book, bookmarked on page fourteen, which he had been constantly reading for two years.”
The triumph and death of “Oblomovism” as the limited and cozy world of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, against the backdrop of the metamorphoses of which the active life of Andrei Stolts surges with an irrepressible spring, was illuminated in his novel by I.A. Goncharov. Undoubtedly, the difference in the revaluation of the values of the two heroes casts its shadow on their attitude towards reading and books. Stolz, with his characteristic German tenacity, showed a special desire to read and study even in his childhood: “From the age of eight, he sat with his father at the geographical map, sorted through the warehouses of Herder, Wieland, biblical verses and summed up the illiterate accounts of peasants, townspeople and factory workers, and I read the Sacred History with my mother, studied Krylov’s fables and sorted through the warehouses of Telemak.”
Once Andrei disappeared for a week, then he was found sleeping peacefully in his bed. Under the bed is someone's gun and a pound of gunpowder and shot. When asked where he got it, he answered: “Yes!” The father asks his son if he has a translation ready from Cornelius Nepos into German. Finding out that he was not, his father dragged him by the collar into the yard, gave him a kick and said: “Go where you came from. And come again with a translation, instead of one, two chapters, and teach your mother the role from the French comedy that she asked: without this don't show yourself!" Andrey returned a week later with a translation and a learned role.
The process of reading Oblomov as the main character I.A. Goncharov pays a special place in the novel:
What was he doing at home? Read? Did you write? Did you study?
Yes: if he comes across a book or a newspaper, he will read it.
If he hears about some wonderful work, he will have an urge to get to know it; he searches, asks for books, and if they bring them soon, he will begin to work on them, an idea about the subject begins to form in him; one more step - and he would have mastered it, but look, he is already lying, looking apathetically at the ceiling, and the book lies next to him, unread, incomprehensible.
If he somehow managed to overcome the book called statistics, history, political economy, he was completely satisfied. When Stolz brought him books that he still needed to read beyond what he had learned, Oblomov looked at him silently for a long time.
No matter how interesting the place where he stopped was, if the hour of lunch or sleep found him at this place, he put the book down with the binding up and went to dinner or put out the candle and went to bed.
If they gave him the first volume, after reading it he did not ask for the second, but when they brought it, he read it slowly.
Ilyusha, like others, studied at a boarding school until he was fifteen. “Of necessity, he sat upright in class, listened to what the teachers said, because there was nothing else he could do, and with difficulty, with sweat, with sighs, he learned the lessons assigned to him. Serious reading tired him.” Oblomov does not perceive thinkers; only poets managed to stir his soul. Stolz gives him books. “Both were worried, cried, made solemn promises to each other to follow a reasonable and bright path.” But nevertheless, while reading, “no matter how interesting the place where he (Oblomov) stopped, if the hour of lunch or sleep found him at this place, he put the book down with the binding up and went to dinner or put out the candle and went to bed.” . As a result, “his head represented a complex archive of dead affairs, persons, eras, figures, religions, unrelated political-economic, mathematical or other truths, tasks, provisions, etc. It was as if a library consisting of only scattered volumes on different parts of knowledge." “It also happens that he will be filled with contempt for human vice, for lies, for slander, for the evil spilled in the world and is inflamed with the desire to point out to a person his ulcers, and suddenly thoughts light up in him, walk and walk in his head like waves in the sea , then they grow into intentions, ignite all the blood in him. But, look, the morning flashes by, the day is already approaching evening, and with it Oblomov’s tired forces tend to rest.”
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The apogee of the heroes' erudition literary work is, without a doubt, the novel by I.S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons". The pages are simply replete with names, surnames, titles. There are Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang Goethe, whom Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov respects. Instead of Pushkin, the “children” give Nikolai Petrovich “Stoff und Kraft” by Ludwig Buchner. Matvey Ilyich Kolyazin, “preparing to go to the evening with Mrs. Svechina, who then lived in St. Petersburg, read a page from Candillac in the morning.” And Evdoksiya Kukshina truly shines with her erudition and erudition in her conversation with Bazarov:
They say you started praising George Sand again. A retarded woman, and nothing more! How is it possible to compare her with Emerson? She has no ideas about education, physiology, or anything. She, I am sure, has never heard of embryology, but in our time - how do you want without it? Oh, what an amazing article Elisevich wrote on this subject.
Having reviewed the works and their characters regarding the literary preferences of the latter, the author would like to dwell in more detail on the characters of Turgenev and Pushkin. About them as the most bright spokesmen literary preferences will be discussed in the following parts of the work.
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Literary heroes, as a rule, are the fiction of the author. But some of them still have real prototypes that lived at the time of the author, or known historical figures. We will tell you who these strangers were to a wide circle readers figures.
1. Sherlock Holmes
Even the author himself admitted that Sherlock Holmes has a lot common features with his mentor Joe Bell. On the pages of his autobiography one could read that the writer often recalled his teacher, spoke about his eagle profile, inquisitive mind and amazing intuition. According to him, the doctor could turn any matter into a precise, systematized scientific discipline.
Often Dr. Bell used deductive methods of inquiry. Just by looking at a person he could tell about his habits, his biography, and sometimes even make a diagnosis. After the novel was published, Conan Doyle corresponded with the “prototype” of Holmes, and he told him that perhaps this is exactly what his career would have turned out like if he had chosen a different path.
2. James Bond
Literary history James Bond began with a series of books that were written by intelligence officer Ian Fleming. The first book in the series, Casino Royale, was published in 1953, a few years after Fleming was assigned to monitor Prince Bernard, who had defected from German service to English intelligence. After much mutual suspicion, the scouts became good friends. Bond took over from Prince Bernard to order a Vodka Martini, adding the legendary “Shaken, not stirred.”
3. Ostap Bender
The man who became the prototype of the great schemer from the “12 chairs” of Ilf and Petrov, at the age of 80, still worked as a conductor on railway on the train from Moscow to Tashkent. Born in Odessa, Ostap Shor was from a young age prone to adventure. He presented himself either as an artist or as a chess grandmaster, and even acted as a member of one of the anti-Soviet parties.
Only thanks to his remarkable imagination, Ostap Shor managed to return from Moscow to Odessa, where he served in the criminal investigation department and fought against local banditry. This is probably where Ostap Bender’s respectful attitude towards the Criminal Code comes from.
4. Professor Preobrazhensky
Professor Preobrazhensky from the famous Bulgakov novel “ Heart of a Dog“There was also a real prototype - a French surgeon of Russian origin Samuil Abramovich Voronov. At the beginning of the 20th century, this man made a real splash in Europe by transplanting monkey glands into humans to rejuvenate the body. The first operations demonstrated a simply amazing effect: elderly patients experienced a resumption of sexual activity, improved memory and vision, ease of movement, and children who were lagging behind in mental development gained mental alertness.
Thousands of people were treated in Voronova, and the doctor himself opened his own monkey nursery on the French Riviera. But very little time passed and the miracle doctor’s patients began to feel worse. Rumors arose that the result of the treatment was just self-hypnosis, and Voronov was called a charlatan.
5. Peter Pan
The boy with the beautiful fairy Tinkerbell was given to the world and to James Barry himself, the author of the written work, by the Davis couple (Arthur and Sylvia). The prototype for Peter Pan was Michael, one of their sons. Fairytale hero received from a real boy not only his age and character, but also nightmares. And the novel itself is a dedication to the author’s brother, David, who died a day before his 14th birthday while ice skating.
6. Dorian Gray
It’s a shame, but the main character of the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” significantly spoiled the reputation of his real-life original. John Gray, who in his youth was a protégé and close friend of Oscar Wilde, was handsome, rugged, and had the appearance of a 15-year-old boy. But their happy union came to an end when journalists became aware of their relationship. An angry Gray went to court and obtained an apology from the newspaper's editors, but after that his friendship with Wilde ended. Soon John Gray met Andre Raffalovich, a poet and native of Russia. They converted to Catholicism, and after some time Gray became a priest at St. Patrick's Church in Edinburgh.
7. Alice
The story of Alice in Wonderland began on the day Lewis Carroll walked with the daughters of the rector of Oxford University, Henry Lidell, among whom was Alice Lidell. Carroll came up with the story on the fly at the request of the children, but the next time he did not forget about it, he began to compose a sequel. Two years later, the author presented Alice with a manuscript consisting of four chapters, to which was attached a photograph of Alice herself at the age of seven. It was entitled “A Christmas gift to a dear girl in memory of a summer day.”
8. Karabas-Barabas
As you know, Alexey Tolstoy only planned to present Carlo Collodio’s “Pinocchio” in Russian, but it turned out that he wrote an independent story, in which analogies were clearly drawn with cultural figures of that time. Since Tolstoy had no weakness for Meyerhold’s theater and its biomechanics, it was the director of this theater who got the role of Karabas-Barabas. You can even guess the parody in the name: Karabas is the Marquis of Karabas from Perrault’s fairy tale, and Barabas is from the Italian word for swindler - baraba. But the no less telling role of the leech seller Duremar went to Meyerhold’s assistant, who worked under the pseudonym Voldemar Luscinius.
9. Lolita
According to the memoirs of Brian Boyd, biographer of Vladimir Nabokov, when the writer was working on his scandalous romance"Lolita", he regularly looked through newspaper sections in which reports of murder and violence were published. His attention was drawn to the sensational story of Sally Horner and Frank Lasalle, which occurred in 1948: a middle-aged man kidnapped 12-year-old Sally Horner and kept her with him for almost 2 years until the police found her in a California hotel. Lasalle, like Nabokov’s hero, passed off the girl as his daughter. Nabokov even briefly mentions this incident in the book in the words of Humbert: “Did I do to Dolly the same thing that Frank LaSalle, a 50-year-old mechanic, did to eleven-year-old Sally Horner in ’48?”
10. Carlson
The story of Carlson’s creation is mythologized and incredible. Literary scholars claim that Hermann Goering became a possible prototype for this funny character. And although Astrid Lindgren’s relatives deny this version, such rumors still exist today.
Astrid Lindgren met Goering in the 1920s when he organized air shows in Sweden. At that time, Goering was just “in the prime of his life,” a famous ace pilot, a man with charisma and a wonderful appetite. The motor behind Carlson’s back is an interpretation of Goering’s flying experience.
Supporters of this version note that for some time Astrid Lindgren was an ardent fan of the National Socialist Party of Sweden. The book about Carlson was published in 1955, so there could be no talk of a direct analogy. However, it is possible that the charismatic image of the young Goering influenced the appearance of the charming Carlson.
11. One-Legged John Silver
Robert Louis Stevenson in the novel “Treasure Island” portrayed his friend Williams Hansley not at all as a critic and poet, which he essentially was, but as a real villain. During his childhood, William suffered from tuberculosis and his leg was amputated at the knee. Before the book appeared on store shelves, Stevenson told a friend: “I have to confess to you, Evil on the surface, but kind at heart, John Silver was copied from you. You're not offended, are you?
12. Winnie the Pooh Bear
According to one version, the world-famous teddy bear got its name in honor of the favorite toy of the writer Milne's son Christopher Robin. However, like all the other characters in the book. But in fact, this name comes from the nickname Winnipeg - that was the name of the bear who lived in the London Zoo from 1915 to 1934. This bear had many child fans, including Christopher Robin.
13. Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise
Despite the fact that the main characters in the book are named Sal and Dean, Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road is purely autobiographical. One can only guess why Kerouac abandoned his name in the most famous book for the beatniks.
14. Daisy Buchanan
In the novel “The Great Gatsby,” its author Francis Scott Fitzgerald deeply and soulfully described Ginevra King, his first love. Their romance lasted from 1915 to 1917. But due to different social statuses they separated, after which Fitzgerald wrote that "poor boys should not even think of marrying rich girls." This phrase was included not only in the book, but also in the film of the same name. Ginevra King became the prototype for Isabel Borge in Beyond Paradise and Judy Jones in Winter Dreams.
Especially for those who like to sit up and read. If you choose these books, you will definitely not be disappointed.
Hello dears.
So, I decided to present it :-) I’m interested in your opinion - whether it coincides with mine or not :-)
So...
10th place Kirila Petrovich Troekurov("Dubrovsky" by A. S. Pushkin)
Landowner, retired general-in-chief. An idle sensualist and drinker. An absolute tyrant who is ready to sacrifice anything for the sake of boredom and whim. Let's say he loves his daughter Masha, but marries her to an old man she doesn't love. We are suing the estate from our old friend. And in general, an extremely unpleasant person. Although all this is purely out of boredom - which is even more disgusting.
9th place - Sergei Ivanovich Talberg ("White Guard"M.A. Bulgakov)
Traitor, coward, opportunist. He easily changes his principles and beliefs, without much effort or remorse. He is always where it is easier to live. Moreover, it gives not only service, superiors, power, but also friends and even family. He is the husband of Elena Turbina.
Remember what he says to his wife: “I’m sure that within three months, well, at the latest in May, we will arrive in the city. Don’t be afraid of anything.”. He lied because he simply fled abroad. Thalberg was the first to wear the red bandage at the military school in March 1917 and, as a member of the military committee, arrested the famous General Petrov. No wonder.
8th place Grushnitsky("Hero of Our Time" by M.Yu. Lermontov) 
It’s funny, but in the story Grushnitsky has no name :-)) He was created as a kind of “double of Pecheroin,” but he is negative, empty, insincere and pretentious “... one of those people who have ready-made pompous phrases for all occasions, which the simply beautiful does not touch and which are importantly draped in extraordinary feelings, sublime passions and exceptional suffering. To produce an effect is their pleasure...”
Grushnitsky is in love with Princess Mary, and at first she responds to him with special attention, but then falls in love with Pechorin. The matter ends in a duel. Grushnitsky is so low that he conspires with his friends and they do not load Pechorin’s pistol. The hero cannot forgive such outright meanness. He reloads the pistol and kills Grushnitsky. And that’s not a pity.
7th place Lady("Mumu" by I. S. Turgenev)
One of the most unpleasant minor characters. Without a name, it's hard to say about her appearance. The old woman is a tyrant. She lives in her house in Moscow. She also has several villages where her serfs live and work. Lady - old widow: ". ..there once lived a lady, a widow, surrounded by numerous servants. Her sons served in St. Petersburg, her daughters got married...“The lady lives alone and rarely appears in public, and she has a lot of servants. She keeps her people and peasants “in a black body”, I repeat - a tyrant. 
Remember how she gave the washerwoman Tatyana, with whom Gerasim was in love, to the drunken shoemaker Capiton, which ruined both of them. The lady, at her own discretion, decides the fate of her serfs, without regard at all to their wishes, and sometimes even to common sense. It’s a pity for both Gerasim and Mumu. The lady is disgusting
6th place Alexey Ivanovich Shvabrin("The Captain's Daughter" by A. S. Pushkin)
Traitor, low man and coward 
Shvabrin was exiled to the Belogorsk fortress for a duel in which his opponent was killed. He treated the inhabitants of the fortress with contempt and arrogance. There is no honor and he is able to slander a girl only because she refused to reciprocate his feelings. During the assault and capture of the Belogorsk fortress, Shvabrin realizes that the siege of a poorly fortified fortress cannot be withstood, he goes over to Pugachev’s side. Judas.
He didn’t belong there, and finally lost respect among his circle: “Shvabrin fell to his knees... At that moment, contempt drowned out all feelings of hatred and anger in me. I looked with disgust at the nobleman lying at the feet of the runaway Cossack.”
5th place Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov("The Brothers Karamazov" by F.M. Dostoevsky)
The landowner is the head of the Karamazov family and the father of Dmitry, Ivan and Alexei Karamazov, a sensualist, very stingy, envious, and clueless. He was ready to do anything for money and women. He is absolutely unprincipled and has no understanding of good and evil. There are only his interests and that’s all. By maturity he became flabby, began to drink a lot, opened several taverns, and made many of his fellow countrymen his debtors...
He began to compete with his eldest son Dmitry for the heart of Grushenka Svetlova, which paved the way for the crime - Karamazov was killed by his illegitimate son Pyotr Smerdyakov.
4th place Malchish-Badish("The Tale of the Military Secret, of Malchish-Kibalchish and his firm word." A.P. Gaidar).
This is, of course, not Russian classical literature. But let's make an assumption :-) Let it be "almost a Russian classic." 
Malchish-Bad - became collectively a traitor and generally a scoundrel.
How it happened: It happened after the war, when the Red Army drove out the white troops of the damned bourgeoisie. And everyone lived quietly and calmly. But the bourgeoisie attacked again from behind the Black Mountains. And all the men began to leave to fight, and the time came when only the old men remained. Then Malchish-Kibalchish called on everyone: “Hey, you boys, little boys! Or should we, boys, just play with sticks and jump ropes? And the fathers have left, and the brothers have gone. Or should we, boys, sit and wait so that "The bourgeoisie came and took us into their damned bourgeoisie?" Then they went to help. And only one Bad Boy wanted to outwit everyone and thus get into the bourgeoisie.
How it ended: The bourgeoisie could not defeat Malchish-Kibalchish. And Malchish-Plokhish helped them: he chopped wood, hauled hay, lit boxes with black bombs, white shells and yellow cartridges. There was an explosion and the bourgeoisie captured Malchish-Kibalchish. I was rewarded with a basket of cookies and a barrel of jam.
What is the result: The traitor achieved his cause: Malchish-Kibalchish was tortured and killed, but he did not tell them the Red Army secret. And the Red Army came and defeated the bourgeoisie. “And Malchish-Kibalchish was buried on a green hillock near the Blue River. And they placed a large red flag over the grave.
And no one else remembered about the Bad Boy. Escaped, which means punishment :-)
3rd place Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky("Doctor Zhivago". B.L. Pasternak)
Rich and unscrupulous lawyer
He is guilty of the ruin of the Zhivago family and the death of the protagonist's father; he cohabits with Lara's mother and Lara herself. Finally, Komarovsky tricks Zhivago into separating him from his wife. Komarovsky is smart, calculating, greedy, cynical.
The daughter of Lara and Zhivago, born in the Far East, later said that Komarovsky was “the Russian minister in White Mongolia” and when the Reds attacked, he left, taking Lara with him.
2nd place Porfiry Vladimirovich Golovlev(“Gentlemen Golovlevs” by M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin)
Everyone there is beautiful :-) But the most disgusting one is definitely Porfiry Golovlev, nicknamed Judushka and Blooddrinker, He is the last representative of an ostracized family.” He is hypocritical, greedy, cowardly, calculating. He spends his life in endless slander and litigation, drives his son to commit suicide, and at the same time imitates extreme religiosity by reading prayers. 
Toward the end of his dark life, Golovlev gets drunk and runs wild, and goes into the March snowstorm. In the morning, his frozen corpse is found. A disgusting character who you don't feel sorry for.
1st place Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov("Crime and Punishment" by F.M. Dostoevsky)
Svidrigailov is an active, intelligent and strong character who works exclusively for evil. He is a widower, at one time he was bought out of prison by his wife, and lived in the village for 7 years. A cynical and depraved person. On his conscience is the suicide of a servant, a 14-year-old girl, and possibly the poisoning of his wife. Due to Svidrigailov's harassment, Raskolnikov's sister lost her job.
Having learned that Raskolnikov is a murderer, Luzhin blackmails Dunya. The girl shoots at Svidrigailov and misses. Svidrigailov is an ideological scoundrel; he does not experience moral torment. He's just bored. He does evil for the sake of evil, and to relieve boredom. But she overpowers him and he eventually commits suicide with a revolver shot.
What is your list?
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