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Kleopatra Petrovna

also: Клеопатра Петровна

Peplov's wife, tasked with snatching the icon off the wall for the ambush blessing of her daughter's suitor; in her haste she grabs a portrait of the novelist Lazhechnikov instead, undoing the whole scheme, in "A Setback" (1885).

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