person
Karolina Karlovna
the major's lady
also: майорша Каролина Карловна, майорша
Major Shchelkolobov's pretty twenty-year-old wife, whose overheard complaints about her husband set off the story's action; nearly drowns with him, then vengefully dismisses a maid out of jealousy.
Reading notes
- If You Chase Two Hares, You Won't Catch Either §1 Karolina Karlovna
The major's young wife, whose German-sounding patronymic (a common marker of Baltic-German or foreign origin in Russian comic fiction) underscores her flirtatious cosmopolitanism against her husband's coarseness.