Word: zinovi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen on the stage last week, the home of Katerina Izmailova is sordid indeed. It resembles a crude two-story dolls' house with one side missing. Upstairs in a dreary bedroom Zinovi, the merchant, sleeps sluggishly with his boots on while downstairs Katerina, his wife, broods on a couch, paces the floor. She cannot sleep. She has never been taught to read. Her lecherous, spying old father-in-law comes in to charge her with being as cold as a cold fish to her spouse. Because of her there is no heir to the Izmailov name. The puling Zinovi...