Overview
Character Name
Elena Ivanovna Popova
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Lead
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
Popova’s House, the countryside, Russia, 1800s, 1880s
Analysis
Elena Ivanovna Popova is a widowed landowner, a fiercely melancholy gentlewoman, who has secluded herself from society in the wake of her husband’s death. In deep mourning, she describes herself as “buried within these four walls…. We are both dead.” Popova ignores advice
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