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Marya Ivanovna Langer
Marya Ivanovna
also: Марья Ивановна Лангер
A state councillor's wife who owns the dacha where the story opens; Nadya's mother, present only by rank and never appearing on stage.
Reading notes
- Which of the Three? §2 Marya Ivanovna Langer
Nadya's mother, a "state councillor's wife" -- the story's genteel provincial-gentry backdrop, glimpsed only through her rank and never appearing directly.