A House of Gentlefolk

A House of Gentlefolk

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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The novel's protagonist is Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobleman who shares many traits with Turgenev. The child of a distant, Anglophile father and a serf mother who dies when he is very young, Lavretsky is brought up at his family's country estate home by a severe maiden aunt, often thought to be based on Turgenev's own mother, who was known for her cruelty.

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Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin, a widow.

Marfa Timofyevna Pestov, her aunt.

Sergei Petrovitch Gedeonovsky, a state councillor.

Fedor Ivanitch Lavretsky, kinsman of Marya.

Elisaveta Mihalovna (Lisa), Lenotchka, daughters of Marya.

Shurotchka, an orphan girl, ward of Marfa.

Nastasya Karpovna Ogarkoff, dependent of Marfa.

Vladimir Nikolaitch Panshin, of the Ministry of the Interior.

Christopher Fedoritch Lemm, a German musician.

Piotr Andreitch Lavretsky, grandfather of Fedor.

Anna Pavlovna, grandmother of Fedor.

Ivan Petrovitch, father of Fedor.

Glafira Petrovna, aunt of Fedor.

Malanya Sergyevna, mother of Fedor.

Mihalevitch, a student friend of Fedor.

Pavel Petrovitch Korobyin, father of Varvara.

Kalliopa Karlovna, mother of Varvara.

Varvara Pavlovna, wife of Fedor.

Anton, Apraxya, old servants of Fedor.

Agafya Vlasyevna, nurse of Lisa.

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