# Ivan Petrovitch — A House of Gentlefolk character guide

> Ivan Petrovitch in A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Turgenev.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Ivan

**First appearance:** 0007-viii

## Who they are

Lavretsky's father, a man of Westernized tastes and a difficult temper.

## Relationships

### [Piotr Andreitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_house_of_gentlefolk_se/characters/piotr_andreitch)

_family_

Ivan Petrovitch is the son of Piotr Andreitch, and their relationship is marked by filial conflict and generational tension.

### [Glafira Petrovna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_house_of_gentlefolk_se/characters/glafira_petrovna)

_family_

Glafira Petrovna is Ivan Petrovitch's stern, domineering aunt who raises him with cold discipline.

### [Glafira Petrovna](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_house_of_gentlefolk_se/characters/glafira_petrovna)

_family_

Glafira Petrovna is Ivan Petrovitch's stern, domineering aunt who raises him with cold discipline.

## In the story

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_house_of_gentlefolk_se/chapters/viii)

Fedor's father; raised by an aunt, educated by a French tutor, he defies his father by marrying the serf Malanya, then leaves for Petersburg.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_house_of_gentlefolk_se/chapters/ix)

The son of Piotr Andreitch, living abroad after his marriage, eventually returns briefly during the 1812 war but leaves again, causing his wife's despair.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_house_of_gentlefolk_se/chapters/x)

Returns to Russia as an Anglomaniac, full of reformist zeal but ultimately ineffectual in changing household management.

### [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_house_of_gentlefolk_se/chapters/xi)

Lavretsky's father, an Anglomaniac who imposes a harsh educational system on his son but later breaks down physically and mentally, becoming blind, dependent, and capricious before dying.

### [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_house_of_gentlefolk_se/chapters/xviii)

Remembered by Lavretsky as vigorous and later blind and tearful.

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