person
Karpo
also: Карпо
The narrator's grandfather's driver, a drowsy Ukrainian coachman who lashes the narrator absentmindedly with his whip and, at the story's end, is the only one to put the boy's unspoken feeling for the Armenian girl into words.
Reading notes
- The Beauties §2 a Ukrainian named Karpo
The grandfather's driver, described in the original with the period ethnic term 'khokhol' (rendered here descriptively as 'a Ukrainian'); he lashes the drowsing narrator absentmindedly with his whip and later voices the story's unspoken feeling about Masha's beauty.