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Liza Lyalikova
Liza
also: Лиза, Лизавета, Лизанька, Lizanka, Lizaveta
The twenty-year-old only daughter and heiress of the Lyalikov textile mills, whose recurring attacks of palpitations turn out, in the story's telling, to be less a medical complaint than the strain of owning a fortune she cannot justify to herself.
Reading notes
- A Case from Practice §8 the patient was Liza
The Lyalikovs' only daughter and heiress, twenty years old, whose recurring night-time attacks of palpitations bring the doctor out from Moscow; the story gradually reveals her trouble as something closer to a moral illness than a medical one.