person
Zoya Pepsinova
Zoya
also: Зоя, Зоя Егоровна, Zoya Yegorovna
The fictional daughter of Colonel Pepsinov, courted -- and lost -- by the narrator during a performance of Gounod's Faust when a fit of hiccups derails his declaration of love.
Reading notes
- The Third Case §1 Zoya
Colonel Pepsinov's daughter, the fictional object of the narrator's ill-fated declaration of love at the opera.