person
Count Kuldarov
Kuldarov
also: графа Кулдарова
A landowning count whose house stands behind the church visible from the garden bench where the proposal scene takes place; mentioned only to place the clerk Bolnitsyn, who lives in his household, within the local social hierarchy.
Reading notes
- How I Entered into Lawful Wedlock §13 His Excellency Count Kuldarov
"His Excellency" (Ваше сиятельство/превосходительство) was the honorific due a count under the imperial Table of Ranks; Chekhov drops in the title to sketch, in a phrase, the social gulf between the landowning count's household and the young couple being married off by their parents.