person
Yefim Petrovich
also: Ефим Петрович, подполковник, the lieutenant colonel
A retired lieutenant colonel, the bride Lyubochka's father, who gives her away at her wedding; over the course of the day his solemn pride curdles into maudlin grief at his empty nest and then, by supper, into drunken collapse and paranoid outbursts.
Reading notes
- The Wedding §25 your honour
"Ваше высокоблагородие" ("your high wellborn-ness") is the formal honorific due a retired lieutenant colonel's rank under the Table of Ranks; Osipov, a hired military-band musician of much lower social standing, addresses his patron with this deferential title throughout, marking the class gap between the two men even as they talk as old acquaintances.
Mentioned in 2 works (17 mentions)
He Understood!
The Wedding
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