person
Vladimir Nikitich Yagich
Yagich
also: Ягич, Владимир Никитич, Big Volodya, Володя большой, the colonel
A fifty-four-year-old army colonel, Sofya Lvovna's husband and a former celebrated ladies' man; nicknamed "Big Volodya" in society to distinguish him from his young protege Little Volodya, whom he dotes on and treats almost as a son despite their both having been rivals for the same women in the colonel's younger days.