Pyotr Petrovich Belokurov

The young landowner on whose estate the narrator is a guest for the summer; an early riser who drinks beer in the evenings and constantly complains that he meets sympathy from no one, he is a slow, ponderous talker fond of turning conversation into argument, aspires uncertainly to be a model farmer, and lives with his older mistress Lyubov Ivanovna, whose permission he must ask before leaving the estate.