person
Polinka
also: Полинька, Пелагея Сергеевна, Polinka, Pelageya Sergeyevna
A small, thin blonde girl, daughter of Marya Andreyevna who keeps a dressmaking establishment; she comes to a drapery shop on an errand and is waited on by Nikolai Timofeich, a shop assistant in love with her, while she is herself in love with a student -- a mismatch he bitterly needles her about across the length of her shopping list.