person
Pyotr Semyonych Chikamasov
Pyotr Semyonych
also: Colonel Chikamasov, Петр Семеныч Чикамасов
A provincial colonel, husband of Chikamasova and father of Manechka, absent on the narrator's first visit and dead by his second, a week after his promotion to general.
Reading notes
- The Dowry §3 Colonel Chikamasov
The absent head of the household on the narrator's first visit; a provincial colonel whose family the story follows across three visits spanning many years.