person
Dasha
also: Даша, Dasha
The princess's lady's maid, mentioned first for the insolent look on her face that irritated the princess and later as the 'advance guard' whose bustling arrival at the monastery the doctor mocks; she helps the princess dress the next morning.
Reading notes
- The Princess §14 her maid Dasha, who this morning had had such an insolent look on her face
The princess's fantasy of monastic renunciation is immediately undercut by this petty domestic irritation -- her indictment of Dasha's "insolent look" is the first hint that her professed spiritual detachment does not survive contact with an actual servant's face.