person
General Prozorov
the sisters' father
also: Прозоров, отец
The Prozorov siblings' late father, a general who commanded an artillery brigade and moved the family from Moscow to the provincial town eleven years before the play opens; dead a year before the action begins and buried in Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery, he is remembered as a strict disciplinarian who insisted his children rise early and learn three languages, and his death is the hinge on which the household's decline turns.
Reading notes
- Three Sisters §28 Father got his brigade
The sisters' late father, an artillery general, brought the family from Moscow to this provincial garrison town eleven years before the play opens when he took command of a brigade there; his death, a year before the action starts, has left the household without his discipline or income.
- Three Sisters §198 Father, God rest him, weighed us down with our education
Andrei explains that their father's demanding regimen -- French, German, English, and (for Irina) Italian -- was the source of the siblings' education, imposed as a kind of discipline rather than affection.
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