Meet the Cast
Aksenty Ivanovich Poprishchin
Madman, Sure, but What Else?Poprishchin is the eponymous "madman," and he delivers by going from relatively sane to completely insane during the course of the story, and very believably so. In fact...
The Minor Characters
Poprishchin mentions quite a few other characters in his diary, real or imagined, but we decided to call them "minor" because Poprishchin rarely lets them take the stage. We don't get to know that...