# XVI explained — The Created Legend > Chapter companion for The Created Legend by Fyodor Sologub. ## What happens Elisaveta and Trirodov visit Voronok to find the family of a murdered worker, attend the funeral which becomes a tense political demonstration, and later observe a provocative detective in a tavern. ## Themes in this chapter ### Revolution and Social Upheaval The funeral of the murdered workers becomes a site of political demonstration, with police surveillance, Cossacks, and a forbidden speech. ### Death and Resurrection The chapter centers on the death of workers and the funeral rites, with the crowd's revolutionary song suggesting a symbolic resurrection of spirit. ### Class Conflict and Culture The stark contrast between the poor, the police, and the revolutionary activists highlights class tensions. ## Character check-ins ### Elisaveta Accompanies Trirodov to Voronok's house, visits the dead worker's family, attends the funeral, and goes to a tavern afterward. ### Trirodov Meets Elisaveta at the gates, informs her about the authorities' actions, visits Voronok, attends the funeral, and goes to the tavern with Elisaveta. ### Voronok A Social Democratic Party worker who provides information about the dead worker's family and accompanies Elisaveta and Trirodov. ### Bodeyev The instructor who attempts to give a speech at the funeral but is stopped by the colonel of the gendarmes. ### Borodulin A drunkard in a red shirt who boasts of being a detective and harasses people in the street. ### Stchemilov Mentioned as having been arrested after a search of his house. ## Key lines > The whole picture of the life of the poor was here in all its sordidness; dirty, malicious children played here, and abused each other, and wrangled; a drunkard reeled; grey buckets swung on a grey wooden yoke across the shoulders of a grey woman in a worn grey dress. The scene vividly depicts the grim poverty of the neighborhood: grimy, quarrelsome children, a staggering drunk, and a woman in gray carrying buckets. _Illustrates the oppressive environment of the poor._ > The colonel of the gendarmes went up to him, and said sternly: 'It is forbidden. I must ask you to do without speeches or demonstrations.' The gendarme colonel forbids Bodeyev from making a speech at the funeral. _Shows state suppression of political expression._ > Then suddenly a voice was heard. And in an instant the whole crowd began to sing words of a proud, melancholy, revolutionary song. The crowd spontaneously breaks into a revolutionary song after the funeral. _Demonstrates defiance and collective spirit._ > I am Borodulin! ... I'm a detective, that's what I am! Borodulin drunkenly declares himself a detective in the tavern. _Reveals the presence of provocateurs and informants._ ## Links - HTML: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters/xvi - Book: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_created_legend_se - All chapters: https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_created_legend_se/chapters