person
Varvara Savvishna Kovalenko
Varenka
also: Варенька, Варвара Саввишна, Varvara Savvishna
Kovalenko's lively, thirty-year-old sister, whose singing and warmth briefly charm Belikov into courting her; her laughter at his fall down the stairs ends both the courtship and, not long after, Belikov's life.
Reading notes
- The Man in a Case §20 Varenka
Kovalenko's lively, thirty-year-old sister, whose singing and warmth briefly draw Belikov into courting her; her laughter at his fall down the stairs ends both the courtship and, not long after, his life.
- The Man in a Case §38 Varvara Savvishna
Varenka's formal name and patronymic, which Belikov uses when he speaks of her with unaccustomed tenderness.