person
Elena Petrovna Pyavkina
Elena Petrovna
also: Пьявкина
A newspaper subscriber in Rostov-on-Don whose address S. M. recognizes as that of a former lover who fled with a thousand of his rubles five years earlier; her surname puns on *pyavka*, "leech."
Reading notes
- A Poisonous Affair §3 Elena Petrovna Pyavkina
A former lover of S. M.'s who, per his account, fled with a thousand rubles of his money five years earlier; her surname Pyavkina derives from *pyavka*, "leech," a small dig built into the name itself.