Three Sisters · Character
Ferapont
An old servant from the country council who brings news and documents.
minor
Also known as Ferapont, Ferapont Yes'm
First appearance: act i
Ferapont's tie to Andrey Sergeyevitch is one of the pressures that moves Three Sisters—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
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- Professional
- Other
Character groups
- Prozorov family and associates
- Minor and peripheral figures
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Andrey Sergeyevitch
professional · ambivalent
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See Ferapont in act i