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Pyotr Nikanorych Lyalikov
Lyalikov
also: Петр Никанорыч, Ляликов
Liza's late father, founder of the family's fortune, seen only in an unflattering oil portrait on the wall and remembered by Khristina Dmitrievna as having died a year and a half before the story's action.
Reading notes
- A Case from Practice §30 Lyalikov, Liza's father
Liza's late father, seen only in an unflattering oil portrait -- small forehead, self-satisfied face, an ill-fitting uniform -- and named later by the governess as Pyotr Nikanorych, dead a year and a half.
- A Case from Practice §37 Pyotr Nikanorych
Liza's late father, named here for the only time; the governess's flat account of his death a year and a half earlier is the sum of what the story tells us about him beyond his portrait.