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Khristina Dmitrievna
also: Христина Дмитриевна
Liza's governess of eleven years, an aging, self-important woman in pince-nez who has made herself comfortably at home in the Lyalikov household and, in Korolyov's private reckoning, is the one person the whole enterprise of the factory actually benefits.
Reading notes
- A Case from Practice §7 Khristina Dmitrievna
Liza's governess of eleven years, an aging, self-satisfied woman who has made the household her own comfortable domain; she does most of the talking on the doctor's visit, rarely to the point.