# The Colonel's Wife — Short Fiction character guide

> The Colonel's Wife in Short Fiction by Nikolai Gogol.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0029-i-ivan-ivanovitch-and-ivan-nikiforovitch

## Who they are

The wife of a colonel in the quarrel story.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_40_se/chapters/i)

Taras's wife, grief-stricken at the imminent separation from her sons.

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