person
Katya
also: Катя
A young prostitute, claiming noble birth, whom Gruzdev brings to his room and lectures on reform; she recognizes his speech as lifted from a novel even as she is moved by it.
Reading notes
- Words, Words, and Words §2 Katya
The young woman Gruzdev has brought back to his rented room; over the course of the story she is revealed as a prostitute he sets out to "save."