# Aleksandr Matvéitch Kirsánof — What Is to Be Done? character guide

> Aleksandr Matvéitch Kirsánof in What Is to Be Done? by Nikolay Chernyshevsky.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Kirsánof, Aleksandr

**First appearance:** 0016-part-ii-first-love-and-legal-marriage

## Who they are

Vera's second husband, a doctor and close friend of Lopukhov, embodying the 'new man'.

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