character
Gruzdev
also: Груздев, Груздева, Груздевым
A student who also loves Nadya Zelenina; recalled for an evening spent playing with the poodle Maxim and telling a comic story about a poodle and a talking crow, he displaces Gorny in Nadya's affections by the story's end.
Reading notes
- After the Theatre §4 the student Gruzdev
Nadya's other suitor, a university student who visits the family and tells comic stories; he displaces Gorny in her thoughts by the story's end.