person
Pavel Konstantinych Alyokhin
Alyokhin
also: Алехин, Павел Константиныч, Pavel Konstantinych
A landowner at Sofyino who set aside a cultivated, city-bred temperament to work off his late father's debts on the family estate; he narrates his own unspoken, years-long love for Anna Alekseyevna Luganovich to his houseguests Burkin and Ivan Ivanych.
Reading notes
- Gooseberries §8 Alyokhin
The landowner at Sofyino in whose house Ivan Ivanych and Burkin take shelter from the rain, and before whom Ivan Ivanych tells the story of his brother; by the story's end it is Alyokhin, as much as Burkin, whom Ivan Ivanych is pleading with directly.
- About Love §3 Alyokhin
The landowner at Sofyino who hosts Burkin and Ivan Ivanych and, over the course of the story, tells them of his own long, unspoken love for Anna Alekseyevna Luganovich.