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Pavel Ivanych
also: Павел Иваныч, Pavel Petrovich, Павел Петрович
The elderly master of the house who interrupts his valet and maid's tryst in the drawing room but notices only that his cigars have been pilfered, never the real cause of their embarrassment; Chekhov gives him the patronymic inconsistently, as both Ivanych and Petrovich.