White Nights (Persian Edition) characters

Appears from the start

A solitary young clerk in Saint Petersburg who spends his evenings walking and imagining companionship with people and buildings he barely knows. He has lived for years with almost no close relationships and calls himself a dreamer. His chance meeting with a distressed young woman gives him an opportunity to step outside that inward life.

Appears from the start

A young woman whom the Dreamer finds crying beside a canal at night. After he protects her from an unwanted pursuer, she agrees to meet him again on the condition that he will not fall in love with her. She is candid and warm, though she is not yet ready to explain the grief that brought her out alone.

Appears from the start

The Dreamer's elderly housekeeper, one of the few people in his narrow domestic world. Her presence emphasizes how isolated and unchanging his ordinary life has become.

First appears in chapter 3

Nastenka's blind grandmother and guardian, who watches over her strictly after an earlier act of disobedience. She supports them by renting an upstairs room and tries to protect Nastenka's reputation and future, though her methods make the young woman's life confining.

Also known as The Lodger

First appears in chapter 3

A cultivated young man who rents the room above Nastenka and her grandmother. He lends them books and takes them to the theatre, opening a wider world to Nastenka. She becomes deeply attached to him before he leaves Saint Petersburg for Moscow, promising to return when his circumstances improve.