Vyacheslav Turgenev

**Vyacheslav** Turgenev is a 20-year-old record store employee with a huge interest for music. He has been playing piano for ten years and guitar for three years and is very passionate about music and his instruments. He has a hobby of walking and very much likes nature. Vyacheslav is a quiet and nervous individual but has his sparks of confidence and moments where he is louder, this usually happens when he is more comfortable with the people he is with at the time.

## Background

Vyacheslav grew up with a fairly wealthy father and a loving mother for the most part. The three had a fairly happy life until his father developed a dependence for alcohol. His dad's addiction slowly got worse and worse until his mother noticed that something was wrong. His father had then left with another woman leaving Vyacheslav and his mother on their own and not in the best financial position. She had to sell a lot of Vyacheslav's possessions to help get them by and she would sometimes let out her pain onto him. He was accepting of it but of course was sad. When his mother made the decision to sell Vyacheslav’s beloved piano, he found himself absolutely distraught. His mum progressively let out most of her pain onto Vyacheslav until he started to feel quite a disdain for her. As Vyacheslav grew their relationship worsened. His mother got a new boyfriend and things just worsened for Vyacheslav, he would often feel ignored and lonely, and it didn't help that he was quite mean and threatening towards Vyacheslav. When he turned eighteen his father reached out to him to meet up, talk things through and to give him money and a house. He took up the offer on the house and didn't decide to meet his father after seven years due to everything that had happened since.

When Vyacheslav was around 19, he decided he should look for a job. Due to Vyacheslav's passion for music, he wanted to search for a job that was within this industry, feeling a typical job within the retail scene would be much more taxing on him, especially as he finds it hard to relate to strangers with no common interests. He found a job at a local record store which was looking for a retail assistant. It was quite a humble little store, being rather homely and welcoming, bringing a lot of comfort to Vyacheslav who began to feel like he belonged there rather quickly. To this day he really enjoys working there, and the longer he is employed, the closer he gets with his fellow employees. He had met a life-long friend whilst working there, her name being Masha. They met on his first day and seemed to get along together right from the moment they exchanged names. They got to talking and have since grown a lasting friendship. He had also met the likes of Lyev, a shorter, more outgoing person who loved indie, alternative and pop punk. Another person he met was Andrei, a 6'1 metalhead who, although comes across as threatening to some due to his appearance, is in actuality quite the opposite. Andrei is the general manager and takes great care of the store, mostly dealing with deliveries and helping out on the shop floor when things get busy. Masha, Lyev and Andrei are people Vyacheslav knows well enough to trust, which due to his upbringing can be a difficult task for Vyacheslav.

During one of Vyacheslav's therapy sessions, he was recommended to take walks to move his mind away from his problems and to help with his mental health, Vyacheslav took walks to and from the zones almost everyday taking notes of what he found out there and sketching such things as  trees or animals, it was something used as a coping mechanism that later became a hobby. On one of these walks Vyacheslav had not been focusing, in a mind of his own and not aware of his surroundings, he had taken a fall from a moderate height and had badly hurt his leg, whilst being left momentarily unconscious. When Vyacheslav had regained consciousness, he was welcomed by a familiar face. Tending to his injuries, the short, masked merchant known to most as Sascha, the two quickly becoming friends, sparked by this event.