![]() ![]() ![]() Peter Ivanovich is Ivan's longtime friend and colleague.He takes on the role of sole comforter and caretaker during Ivan's illness. Gerasim is the Golovins' young butler.She is characterized as self-absorbed and uninterested in her husband's struggles, unless they directly affect her. ![]() Praskovya Fëdorovna Golovin is Ivan's unsympathetic wife.Ivan Ilyich Golovin ( Ilyich is a patronymic, his surname is Golovin) is a highly regarded official of the Court of Justice, described by Tolstoy as, "neither as cold and formal as his elder brother nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them-an intelligent, polished, lively, and agreeable man." As the story progresses, he becomes more and more introspective and emotional as he ponders the reason for his agonizing illness and death.The Death of Ivan Ilyich (also Romanized Ilich, Ilych, Ilyitch Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, romanized: Smert' Ivána Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.Ĭonsidered to be one of the finest examples of a novella, The Death of Ivan Ilyich tells the story of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia and his sufferings and death from a terminal illness. ![]()
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