# Evdoksya Kukshin — Fathers and Children character guide

> Evdoksya Kukshin in Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Evdoksya, Kukshin, Madame Kukshin

**First appearance:** 0011-xii

## Who they are

An eccentric, emancipated woman who hosts intellectual gatherings.

## In the story

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fathers_and_children_se/chapters/xii)

An emancipated woman whom Sitnikov insists Bazarov and Arkady must visit; described as a 'remarkable nature' and 'advanced woman'.

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

The emancipated hostess; dishevelled and affected, she rambles about women's rights, science, and literature while drinking heavily.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/fathers_and_children_se/chapters/xiv)

Appears at the ball with dirty gloves and a bird of Paradise in her hair; dances a polka-mazurka with Sitnikov at four in the morning.

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