person
Suleiman
also: Сулейман
Natalya Mihalovna's own Tatar mountain guide during her Crimean excursions, whom she describes ordering about and keeping strictly "in hand" even as she recounts him as devoted to her.
Reading notes
- A Long Tongue §20 jealous of Suleiman
The husband's blunt naming of what Natalya's rambling account keeps circling -- jealousy implies intimacy -- is the story's turning hinge: from here Natalya's own defensive protestations about keeping her guide 'in hand' start reproducing, point for point, the very impropriety she has just finished condemning in Yulia.