# Kalliopa Karlovna — A House of Gentlefolk character guide

> Kalliopa Karlovna in A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Turgenev.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0015-xvi

## Who they are

A German woman, possibly a music teacher or companion.

## In the story

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_house_of_gentlefolk_se/chapters/xiii)

Varvara's mother, of German extraction, described as a woman of great sensibility with a perpetual tear in her left eye.

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