Dr. Aleksandr Astrovsky

**This article is about the character played by Isabella Roland from Coffin Run, Dr. Aleksandr Astrovsky**.

For the article about the chief of police from Mentopolis, see Chief Alexander Tightass.

## Dr. Aleksandr Astrovsky

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### Alias(es)

Aleks
Sasha
Darling  (Granny Dalca)
Dr Aleks  (Wetzel)
Grandfather  (Florina)
Grandfather Sasha  (Florina)
Grandpa  (Florina)
Grandpapa Sasha  (Florina)
Kittens  (Count Dracula)
Zayde  (Florina)

## Ability Scores

### CON

8 (-1)
13 (+1)
13 (+1)

### CHA

20 (+5)
16 (+3)
12 (+1)

### Languages

> *“What Have You Done?? I Studied For Decades To Learn What I Know, Do You Understand? And You Put A Little Bit Of Magic Liquid Into My Toy And Turn It Into Something Incomprehensible By Man!!!! Everything I Know Has Been Destroyed!!!! It's The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Ever Seen In My Life!!!!”*
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**Dr. Aleksandr "Sasha" Astrovsky** is a mad scientist in the employ of Count Dracula. He is played by Isabella Roland.

## Description

### Appearance

Sasha is a frazzled looking "old man of 41". He has many stress lines, and a "crazed expression". His eyebrows are constantly high up in the middle and low down at the front, and he has a "very stringy, electrocuted, white, curly jewfro" - his hair, over which he wears big goggles, stands up on its own. He also constantly wears a lab coat and his wedding ring. Later in the season he also wears a bracelet with an elephant on it gifted to him by Daciana, although this later turns out to have been a tracking device. Sasha also has a very strange laugh.

### Personality

Sasha is very intense, as he is almost constantly yelling, although he gets incredibly quiet when angry. He is caring, and as Granny Dalca describes, "you get excited about the most mundane things, and it makes me excited, and it’s like living vicariously through you”. He particularly becomes excited when Florina tries to dupe them, as he respects the hustle. He worries that he wasted his youth studying, since the people around him can do such amazing things very easily with magic. He wishes he could have "such power" as Mikhail has to sing. Due to his history with being subjected to antisemitism, he is agoraphobic and didn't leave Castle Dracula for the full seven years between Marina leaving and the Fang Gang going to pick up Dracula from the train station after his trip to New York.

Like Squing and May, he has trouble telling European Culture from Vampire Magic.

## Background

Sasha spent a large majority of his youth studying, which he now feels might have been wasted since the people around him can perform amazing things very easily with magic.

Marina and Sasha got together and got married in the old country, where they had 15 sons together. The two of them were both later forced to leave their home country due to antisemitism, as they are both Jewish.

Sasha was invited to live in Castle Dracula, which Dracula described as a home for outcasts, where they both stayed for a short while, until Dracula forced Marina to leave for unknown reasons. Sasha wrote Marina a letter every day for the seven years they were apart, giving them to Dracula's messenger, Dimitri, who, as the messenger ONLY for Dracula, gave them to Squing instead, who ate every single one, leaving both Marina and Sasha to have no clue as to the fate of their beloved spouse.

Due to his history with being subjected to antisemitism, he is agoraphobic and didn't leave Castle Dracula for the full seven years between Marina leaving and the Fang Gang going to pick up Dracula from the train station after his trip to New York.

He stopped believing in God years ago.

## Relationships

### Daciana Lee

Daciana befriended Sasha over their mutual love of inventing, and Daciana gave him a bracelet as a gift, which later turned out to have been a trap, tracking his location.

### Dimitri

Dimitri and Sasha had an entirely regular relationship, in which Sasha would give letters to Dimitri every day to send to his estranged wife, Marina, and would sometimes act in a disapproving fatherly way to Dimitri when he acted out. Partway through Coffin Run however, Dimitri admitted that he had never sent any of the letters to Marina, as he is only Dracula's messenger, and was in fact giving them to Squing, who was eating every single one. After this revelation, Sasha became incredibly angry and began to view Dimitri as his enemy, even trying to kill him at least once. Dimitri harbours no negative feelings towards Sasha.

### Granny Dalca

Granny Dalca loves **Sasha** - She loves having him around, he makes her feel like she's 17 again, and she's willing to give him anything he wants. In the first episode, she makes a toy he made out of a Moscow mule cup come to life, which causes him to freak out and call it "the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life" even though "everything I know has been destroyed". She loves the way he gets excited over things that seem so mundane to her. Dalca wants to eat him up, literally. In turn, he makes her feel like he's 49. Neither of them know if that's an insult or not.

### Count Dracula

Dracula took in Sasha, as he saw his castle as a place for societal outcasts, and Sasha had recently left his home country due to antisemitism. Dracula loves the work that Sasha does, and finds joy in his laughter, but Dracula was the one who kicked Sasha's wife out of the castle. Despite this, there seems to be no love lost between Sasha and Dracula.

### Florina

When arguing with Wetzel, Florina pretends to be Sasha's estranged granddaughter to get him on her side. Sasha does not immediately realise that she is lying, and becomes emotional, thinking that one of his 15 sons had had a child in the years since he saw them. Sasha does later realise the lie, but is not upset, finding Florina's attempts to con them hilarious and adorable. Sasha adopts her as his granddaughter, and proclaims that she is Jewish now. Florina is very happy to go along with this, calling Sasha "Zayde". Later, Sasha introduces Florina to Marina as their new daughter.

### Marina Astrovsky

Marina and Sasha got together and got married in the old country, where they had 15 sons together. The two of them later were forced to leave their home country, and Sasha was invited to live in Castle Dracula where they both stayed for a short while, until Dracula forced Marina to leave for unknown reasons. Sasha wrote Marina a letter every day for the seven years they were apart, giving them to Dracula's messenger, Dimitri, who, as the messenger ONLY for Dracula, gave them to Squing instead, who ate every single one, leaving both Marina and Sasha to have no clue as to the fate of their beloved spouse.

At some point in these seven years, Marina allowed herself to be turned into a werewolf in order to avenge Sasha, who she believed at this point to be dead. Despite their estrangement, Sasha never even entertained the idea of entering a relationship with another person, being incredibly devoted to his wife.

Marina and Sasha later reunited during the events of Coffin Run and continued their relationship as if no time had passed, although Sasha informed her that he had adopted Florina in the meanwhile, to which Marina replied that she had always wanted a daughter,

### May Wong

Sasha and May are friends, and Sasha loves listening to May's soliloquys.

### Squing

Sasha is fascinated by Squing's anatomy and deeply wants to study it, but Squing won't let him take samples. Their relationship later turns sour when Sasha discovers that Squing has been eating his letters to his estranged wife, and Sasha threatens to cut open his stomach. They move later into a slightly less aggressive tolerance of each other, but Sasha is still very angry.

### Wetzel

Wetzel admires Sasha deeply, and thinks that he is "phenomenal". He refers to him as "Dr Aleks" when talking to Drago. Wetzel considers Sasha, May, and Squing to be his best friends, although this is not audibly reciprocated.