Pyotr Sergeyevich Sakhvadze
Names: Pyotr Sergeyevich SakhvadzePyotrPetyaDr. Pyotr SakhvadzeComrade Doctorgrandson
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 9 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 9Rationalist physician and head of the Sochi Institute of Mental Health; flame-red-haired, of Georgian and Cherkess descent with a Rom ancestor.
- Ch 9Though he first resolved to disregard the promise as comfort for a dying woman, a compulsion drove him to take Tamara to Verkhnyaya Bzyb.
- Ch 9Seliac says Pyotr shares the blood and soul of the old ones without knowing it.
- Ch 9Pyotr is skeptical of psychic research and doubts that telepathy or psychokinesis, even if real, has any pragmatic value.
- Ch 9Pyotr refuses at first to face the village elder, and responds to Seliac's arguments with bitterness and sarcasm.
Connections
- family ofVerahusband
- family ofTamaradaughter
- leadsSochi Institute of Mental Health
- family ofSeliac EshbaSeliac addresses Pyotr as 'grandson', possibly figuratively
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 9Vera's deathbed promise
Dying in a car crash, Vera makes Pyotr promise to take Tamara to the old ones in Upper Bzyb for four years. Tamara senses her mother's death and has packed her bags.
- Book 1 · Ch 9Journey to Verkhnyaya Bzyb
Pyotr drives Tamara south and into the mountains. Despite his doubts, the car restarts and Tamara guides them to the hidden village, where Seliac Eshba welcomes them.
- Book 1 · Ch 9Welcome feast and Seliac's revelations
The villagers toast Tamara as destined to announce their secret and bring peace. Seliac tells Pyotr about Vera's flight and his own ancestry, while Pyotr plans to leave that night.
- Book 1 · Ch 9Seliac recruits Pyotr
By a brook near the walnut grove, Seliac uses a walnut analogy and talk of humanity's mental evolution to persuade a skeptical Pyotr to help prepare Tamara. He holds out his hand and waits.