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Marya Sergeyevna
also: Марья Сергеевна, барыня
The young mistress of the Dyadkino estate, whose fearful, avid watching of a distant house-fire at Kreshchenskoye -- from the terrace, then the attic, then up close by carriage -- carries the story's study of the mingled dread and thirst for spectacle that disaster provokes in an onlooker.