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CAST OF CHARACTERS

Oblomov, around thirty years of age

Zakhar, an old serf about fifty years of age

Alekseyev, a well-dressed man about Oblomov’s age

Stolz, a vigorous man of about thirty

Tarantyev, a large, overbearing man

Olga Sergeyevna, a handsome woman, a few years older than Oblomov

Madame Pshenitsyn, “Katrinka,” a doll-like woman, with very little intellect, but an excellent housekeeper and mother

Note: In the nineteenth century the term “Oblomovism” passed into the vocabulary to describe a kind of helpless nobleman who couldn’t “do” anything but live a life of torpor.

The action takes place in nineteenth-century Russia.