Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov

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Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov is the fictional nobleman and convict whose prison experiences form the central perspective of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s semi-autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn The House of the Dead NERFINISHED
associatedAuthor Fyodor Dostoevsky NERFINISHED
basedOn Fyodor Dostoevsky NERFINISHED
centralWork The House of the Dead NERFINISHED
characterOrigin Russian literature
characterType semi-autobiographical persona
convictionContext Siberian prison camp NERFINISHED
countryOfFictionalOrigin Russian Empire NERFINISHED
familyName Goryanchikov NERFINISHED
fictionalStatus non-historical
gender male
genreOfWork prison literature
semi-autobiographical novel
givenName Aleksandr NERFINISHED
languageOfWork Russian
literaryFunction vehicle for Dostoevsky’s reflections on morality
vehicle for social critique of penal institutions
literaryPeriod 19th-century Russian literature
literaryTradition Russian realist novel
medium novel
narrativePerspective first-person narrator
narrativeRole narrator
protagonist
nobleStatus nobleman
occupation convict
patronymicName Petrovich
primaryThemeInArc moral and spiritual transformation GENERATED
observation of human nature under extreme conditions GENERATED
roleInWork chronicler of prison experiences
observer of fellow convicts
setting Siberia NERFINISHED
tsarist-era prison camp
socialClass Russian nobility
themeAssociation Russian penal system
prison life
punishment and exile
redemption
suffering
workAuthor Fyodor Dostoevsky NERFINISHED

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The House of the Dead narrator Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov
The House of the Dead protagonist Aleksandr Petrovich Goryanchikov