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Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko

Medvedenko

also: Семен Семенович Медведенко, Медведенко

A poor local schoolteacher, opening the play with its first line lamenting his low salary and Masha's indifference to him; he loves Masha steadily and without much hope, eventually marries her, and by Act Four is a harried young father worn down by poverty and Masha's continued emotional distance, still pleading for a share of her attention against her preoccupation with Treplyov.

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