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Ivan Petrovich Somov
Somov
also: Иван Петрович Сомов, Сомов, Ваня, Vanya
A bored landowner who, on a rainy day with nothing to do, reads his wife Lidochka's badly spelled letter and berates her at length for her ignorance and poor education, reducing her to tears -- then, mellowed by dinner and vodka, talks himself into preferring an unlearned wife to a 'bluestocking.'