Characters
- Arkadi Sergeyevich Islayev, a rich landowner, 36
- Natalya Petrovna, his wife, 29
- Kolya, their son, 10
- Vera Aleksandrovna (Verochka), Natalya's ward, 17
- Anna Semyonovna Islayeva, Arkadi's mother, 58
- Lizaveta Bogdanovna, a companion, 37
- Adam Ivanovich Schaff, a German tutor, 45
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rakitin, a family friend, 30
- Aleksei Nikolayevich Belyaev, a student, Kolya's tutor, 21
- Afanasi Ivanovich Bolshintsov, a neighbour, 48
- Ignati Ilyich Shpigelsky, a doctor, 40
- Matvei, a servant, 40
- Katya, a servant, 20
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