vlasievna

Updated: June 8, 2025

Over Liza she had but little influence. All the more powerful, then, was the influence exercised over the child by her nurse, Agafia Vlasievna. That woman's story was a remarkable one. She sprang from a family of peasants, and was married at sixteen to a peasant; but she stood out in sharp relief against the mass of her peasant sisters.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - Liza: "A nest of nobles"