person
Nadezhda Petrovna
also: Надежда Петровна
The mistress of the Chelobityev apartment in 'A Woman's Revenge'; when a doctor bluntly demands payment she has no cash to give, she engineers her own fainting spell to settle the debt on different terms.
Reading notes
- A Woman's Revenge §1 Nadezhda Petrovna
The mistress of the apartment where the story takes place; her name means "hope."