# Feodor Ilitch Kuligin — Three Sisters character guide

> Feodor Ilitch Kuligin in Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Kuligin, Kuligin Natalia Ivanovna, Kuligin Masha, Kuligin Hurt, Kuligin Gaily, Kuligin Laughs, Kuligin She's, Enter Kuligin, Kuligin Who

**First appearance:** 0001-act-i

## Snapshot

A schoolteacher married to Masha, he is kind, pedantic, and cheerfully oblivious to the unhappiness sitting across his own dinner table.

## Who they are

Kuligin belongs to the household as Masha's husband and the local schoolmaster, a man who likes to hear himself speak and takes quiet satisfaction in his wife and his work. His good nature is real but unperceptive: he cannot see the boredom and resentment that have settled into his marriage, and his pedantry makes him easy to overlook. He matters because his oblivious contentment throws Masha's restlessness into relief, giving the play's early arc a domestic counterweight to all the grand talk of work and a new age.

## Links

- HTML: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters/feodor_ilitch_kuligin
- Book: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se
- All characters: https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/three_sisters_se/characters