person
Prince Sergei Ivanovich
the little prince
also: Sergei Ivanych, Sergei Ivanovich, Сергей Иваныч, Сергей Иванович, князек, the illustrious blockhead
A poor, awkward, endearingly ineffectual minor prince who accompanies the narrator hunting; ruined by loans and mismanagement, he confesses his loneliness and failures on the drive to the estate, and it emerges he once loved -- or was loved by -- Nadezhda Lvovna Kandurina and broke off all contact with her family years before.