Stepan Alexeevich Tabanin

Born in a village in Yakutia (now named as Mirnyj city), 5 July 1912. Sixth minor character I made.

He was born from middle-class teacher family who tasked to teaching in Yakutia area. The father is Russian, and the mother is native of Yakutia. He also have younger sister, and all of them are quite harmonious. The family also safe during the Revolution, so the father and mother can continue teaching at Soviet-state school after 1924.

Stepan managed to study formally, entering music school, and graduated. At first he worked at local philharmonic as bassist, then at 1934, he applied to Alexandrov Ensemble and accepted.

His life is quite normal, but he is secretly always homesick. Because he is alone at Moscow as half Russian-Yakutian, looking somewhat different (light blond hair, blue eyes but his eye shape is a bit... Far Eastern?). All he can do is to do mail correspondence that of course can took months because Moscow-Mirnyj is too far.

He also had bad habit to skip breakfast, thinking he can just eat a lot during lunch just like he did at hometown... which unfortunately, the rehearsal often tedious and long until evening. so yeah, he developed dyspepsia and possibly GERD. Usually Alexei/Vitaly will always shoving him some apple if they found out Stepan skipped breakfast again. His relationship with the chorists, orchestra players and ballerinas are neutral, doesn't know and/or thinking further. He is the type to get along normally with everyone in any sections since he is a bassist.

It may seemed too normal among traumatised characters... but yeah, for Stepan, his unconscious isolation due to being mixed identity kinda showing. And he stayed in the ensemble because everytime he wants to resign, Alexandrov kept convincing in many ways... as The Founder doesn't want to lost a talented bassist who can adapt the composition fast.