# Notes from Underground — Character guide

> Key figures in Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

- [The Underground Man](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/notes_from_underground_se/characters/narrator.md): A bitter, reclusive former civil servant who narrates his philosophical rants and past humiliations.
- [Liza](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/notes_from_underground_se/characters/liza.md): A young prostitute whom the Underground Man tries to rescue and then cruelly rejects.
- [Apollon](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/notes_from_underground_se/characters/apollon.md): The Underground Man's arrogant and insolent servant.
- [Zverkov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/notes_from_underground_se/characters/zverkov.md): A former schoolmate of the Underground Man, now a successful and handsome officer.
- [Simonov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/notes_from_underground_se/characters/simonov.md): A former schoolmate of the Underground Man who organizes a farewell dinner for Zverkov.
- [The Officer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/notes_from_underground_se/characters/the_officer.md): A burly officer who physically moves the Underground Man aside in a billiard hall.
- [Ferfitchkin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/notes_from_underground_se/characters/ferfitchkin.md): A spiteful former schoolmate of the Underground Man at the farewell dinner.
- [Trudolyubov](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/notes_from_underground_se/characters/trudolyubov.md): A quiet, strong former schoolmate of the Underground Man at the dinner.
- [Anton Antonitch Syetotchkin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/notes_from_underground_se/characters/anton_antonitch.md): The Underground Man's former office chief, a mild-mannered bureaucrat.

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