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Sergei Borisych Belavin
Dr. Belavin
Yulia Sergeyevna's father, a touchy, self-pitying provincial doctor perpetually humming "ru-ru-ru" to himself while pacing his study, convinced the world underrates and exploits him; he speculates unsuccessfully in mortgaged houses, treats Nina Fyodorovna in her final illness, and is left alone in the provincial town when Yulia marries and moves to Moscow.