person
Vanya Shchupaltsev
Vanya
also: Ваня Щупальцев, Щупальцев, техник, the student, the tutor, финик
A pink-cheeked, beardless first-year engineering student of nineteen or twenty engaged as the Kapitonovs' live-in tutor; caught kissing Anna Semyonovna by her husband, he is terrified into agreeing to take responsibility for her, offers to duel the notary over the supposed insult to his marriage, and is instead mocked, disillusioned about Anna, and walked off amiably by the notary at the story's close.