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Pyotr Shiryaev
Pyotr
also: Петр, Петя, Petya, the student
Evgraf Shiryaev's university-student son, home on a visit and needing money for his return to Moscow; ordinarily passive under his father's outbursts, he breaks the family's pattern of silent endurance to confront his father directly about the household's cruelty, provoking a second, uglier scene before leaving for the station the next morning with the conflict unresolved.