Josephine Iosifovna Milan

Panaurov's second, unmarried household's mistress, a heavily powdered, jewelry-jingling woman of about thirty-five whom Laptev meets once awkwardly at dinner before his own wedding and again, years later, when she comes to his Moscow house in genuine distress, begging him to persuade Panaurov not to abandon her and their two small daughters as he leaves for a new provincial posting.