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Marya Petrovna
also: Марья Петровна
Sasha's late mother, a small, sickly, impoverished widow of the gentry and a distant relation of Marfa Mikhailovna who used to come to her for alms; on her death the grandmother sent the orphaned Sasha to Moscow to be schooled.
Reading notes
- The Bride §6 Marya Petrovna
Sasha's late mother, a small, sickly, impoverished widow of the gentry and a distant relation of the grandmother who once came to her for alms; on her death the grandmother sent the orphaned Sasha to Moscow to be schooled.