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Marya Timofeevna
also: Мария Тимофеевна, Марья Тимофеевна
Bishop Pyotr's elderly mother, a former village deacon's wife, who visits her son after nine years apart but cannot shed her deference to his rank even alone with him -- until his final illness, when she forgets he is a bishop and simply mourns her son.
Reading notes
- The Bishop §4 Marya Timofeevna
Bishop Pyotr's elderly mother, a former village deacon's wife, come to visit her son after nine years apart; she cannot shake her deference to his rank even alone with him.