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Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin

Vershinin

also: Александр Игнатьевич Вершинин, Вершинин, Alexander Ignatyevich

A lieutenant colonel newly arrived to command the local artillery battery, previously stationed with the sisters' late father in Moscow; unhappily married to a wife given to repeated half-serious suicide attempts, he falls into a consuming affair with Masha, delivers the play's recurring speeches imagining a happier life two or three hundred years hence, and must leave for good when his brigade is transferred at the play's close.

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