Rakhmetov

Rakhmetov
What Is to Be Done? character
Created byNikolai Chernyshevsky
In-universe information
GenderMale
NationalityRussian

Rakhmetov (Russian: Рахметов, also romanized as "Rakhmétof") is a fictional character from the 1863 novel What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky. His only action in the story is to give the heroine, Vera Pavlovna, a note from her husband explaining that he has faked his suicide. He also offers his criticisms to Vera Pavlovna for her abandoning of her sewing cooperative.

Although Rakhmetov is only a minor character appearing briefly in the third section of the book, he is the most famous due to Chernyshevsky's description of Rakhmetov's discipline and valor influenced Russian revolutionaries, most notably Lenin (who wrote a pamphlet similarly titled What Is to Be Done?).

According to Andrew Michael Drozd, the likeliest inspiration for Rakhmetov was Chernyshevsky's acquaintance Pavel Aleksandrovich Bakhmetev, an eccentric "repentant nobleman."

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