Easter Day
Author: Alexander Kuprin
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Languages: RU, English
Genre: Historical, Romance, Short story
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Colonel Voznitsin meets the woman he loved in youth aboard a steamer, and an Easter morning turns their memories of lost love into reconciliation with the course of life.
Characters
- Nikolai Ivanitch Voznitsin (Kolya) — a General Staff colonel: On the threshold of old age, he returns to the places and emotions of his youth.
- Elena Vladimirovna Lvova (Lenotchka) — his former beloved: A married woman who shares Voznitsin’s memories with warmth and irony.
- Lenotchka — Lvova’s daughter: Her youth becomes a sign of life’s continuity and renewal for the older pair.
- Arkasha Yurlof — Lenotchka’s brother and Voznitsin’s school friend: Through him Voznitsin entered the Yurlof household; he died in the country in 1890.
- Alexandra Millievna — mother of Arkasha, Lenotchka, and Oletchka: The good-natured mistress of the house by Borisoglebsky Church; she outlived her son by a year.
- Oletchka — Lenotchka’s younger sister: Sensible from childhood, she took a medical degree and serves as a district doctor.