person
Marya Yegorovna Mikshadze
Princess Mikshadze
also: Марья Егоровна Микшадзе, the princess, княгиня
The narrator's hostess at the Green Braid dacha, widow of a Georgian or Circassian princeling; a formidable, etiquette-obsessed woman of about fifty who alternately terrorizes and indulges the young summer set around her daughter Olya.