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Anna Lvovna Kuvaldina
Anna
also: Анна Львовна Кувалдина, Аннушка, Анночка, Anyuta, Annochka, Annushka
The estranged wife of the titular councillor Kuvaldin, wrongly reported dead in a rumor Colonel Piskarev cannot bring himself to correct or retract cleanly -- the absent center around whom the whole sketch's comic misunderstanding turns.