Pyotr Sakhvadze
Names: Pyotr SakhvadzePyotr SergeyevichPapaDedushkaGrandfatherPyotrDr. Sakhvadze
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 27 (5)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 27Old Georgian psychiatrist, recently released from nearly ten years of exile in Ulan-Ude, now living in Alma-Ata with his daughter's family.
- Ch 27Has felt headaches and strange auras just before earthquakes in 1966 (Tashkent), 1983 (Baikal region) and 1984, and believes he has an earthquake-sensing extrasense.
- Ch 27Championed the rights of psychically gifted youths against military and GRU exploitation, publicized dubious psychic research abroad, and was silenced and exiled for it.
- Ch 27Feels like a burden to his family and fears and struggles to love his alien-minded telepathic grandchildren.
- Ch 56Pyotr is Tamara's father, an elderly Georgian psychiatrist celebrating his 83rd birthday; as a non-operant he cannot use telepathy and was honored as aksakal.
- Ch 75Pyotr is a ninety-nine-year-old psychiatrist from the Caucasus, living in Oxford with his grandson Ilya, and sensitive to psychodynamic currents in the geosphere.
- Ch 75During a morning walk he saw Mount Washington shimmer with green, violet and golden light, a hallucination that vanished at sunrise.
- Ch 75Pyotr worries about his dear Tamara and other operants struggling for power in Moscow.
Connections
- family ofTamarafather and daughter
- family ofYuri Gawrysfather-in-law
- family ofTamara Gawrys-Sakhvadzefather and daughter
- family ofIlyagrandfather
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 27Pyotr senses the earthquake
At Medeo skating rink, Pyotr's headache and auras vanish at a minor tremor. He concludes he has an earthquake extrasense, though his grandchildren doubt him.
- Book 1 · Ch 27Yuri explains the political situation
Over brandy, Yuri tells Pyotr that Andropov is dying, the Institute has been purged, and the KGB's grip will end. Tamara confirms the tremor via the Geophysical Observatory.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Pyotr's birthday feast
Pyotr's family and guests celebrate with a lamb's head feast; Denis rescues it by coercion. Tamara privately explains Kremlin politics and organizes nine minds to protect the General Secretary.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Pyotr's vision on the mountain
On a dawn walk Pyotr sees Mount Washington shimmer and feels near a discovery; Rogi finds him, and Pyotr learns earthquakes are rare locally. Rogi explains Superman and kryptonite.