Arbat · Character

Вадим Марасевич

Also known as Вадик, Вадим, Vadim Marasevich

• Supporting
• First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 10

A stout, heavy-set man with an unexpectedly graceful presence, moving with the ponderous elegance of an elephant. He wears a thick deer-fur half-coat and a distinctive Yakut hat whose long fur ears hang down to his waist, giving him a striking, almost theatrical silhouette against the winter street.