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* ByronicHero: Pechorin is {{deconstructed}}.
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* {{Foil}}: Grushnitsky to Pechorin. Where Pechorin is [[IdleRich rich, idle]], and stylish, Grushnitsky is a desperate and pretentious social climber. On the other hand, both compete to be the most brooding ByronicHero in town, except that Grushnitsky only plays the part to attract the ladies, while Pechorin actually is one, with [[RealityEnsues depressingly realistic consequences]] to anyone involved with him.

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* {{Foil}}: Grushnitsky to Pechorin. Where Pechorin is [[IdleRich rich, idle]], and stylish, Grushnitsky is a desperate and pretentious social climber. On the other hand, both compete to be the most brooding ByronicHero in town, except that Grushnitsky only plays the part to attract the ladies, while Pechorin actually is one, with [[RealityEnsues depressingly realistic consequences]] consequences to anyone involved with him.
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* SarcasticTitle: Pechorin is one of the great [[VillainProtagonist villain-protagonists]] of literature and highlights what the author saw as the problems of Russian society at the time.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Pechorin. In ''Bela'', he emotionally manipulates the titular heroine to make her love him. In ''Princess Mary'', he gets Mary to fall in love with him ''just to create the smokescreen for his romance with Vera''.

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* ManipulativeBastard: Pechorin. In ''Bela'', he emotionally manipulates the titular title heroine to make her love him. In ''Princess Mary'', he gets Mary to fall in love with him ''just to create the smokescreen for his romance with Vera''.
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* IdleRich: More or less every aristocrat in the book.

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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Pechorin has Bela kidnapped for him and holds her captive until she falls in love with him.
* ManipulativeBastard: Pechorin. In ''Bela'', where he emotionally manipulates the titular heroine to make her love him. In ''Princess Mary'', he gets Mary to fall in love with him ''just to create the smoke screen for his romance with Vera''.

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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Pechorin has Bela kidnapped for him and holds her captive until she falls in love with him.
him. Then, he gets bored of her.
* ManipulativeBastard: Pechorin. In ''Bela'', where he emotionally manipulates the titular heroine to make her love him. In ''Princess Mary'', he gets Mary to fall in love with him ''just to create the smoke screen smokescreen for his romance with Vera''.

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