person
Sasha
also: Саша
The narrator's elder brother, a university student who feigns a toothache to stay home and meet the governess Zinochka in secret; unlike Zinochka, he faces no household consequence when the affair is discovered, and eventually marries her.
Reading notes
- Zinochka §9 my elder brother
Sasha, the narrator's adult brother, is introduced here only as "a university student" with a conveniently invented toothache that keeps him home while the rest of the family leaves for the day -- the pretext, we later realize, that clears the house for his meeting with Zinochka.