A widow around thirty, simple, soft-headed, and entirely dedicated to housework and the kitchen. She lives in the Vyborg district and accidentally becomes Oblomov's landlady. With his entry into her life, she devotes all her energy and talent to his comfort, making perfect coffees and pastries. She does not find Oblomov's passive lifestyle strange; on the contrary, she sees it as her greatest duty to serve it with a silent, motherly compassion. Although she is ignorant and simple-minded, she is bothered by the games her cunning brother and Tarantyev play against Oblomov with her heart's purity, and she shows such sacrifice that she pledges her own pearls the moment he falls into financial distress. Following their formal union with Oblomov, she has a son named Andriyusha with him; however, after Oblomov dies, she loses the purpose of life and turns into an almost soulless shadow.
She is the widow of a clerk. While living in a quiet neighborhood with her two children and servants in a limited world between the kitchen and the pantry, her universe expanded when Oblomov arrived as a tenant, and she built a complete sanctuary for her master as a servant would.
In her thirties, her skin is snow-white, her cheeks are round and slightly plump. She has sparse hair on her eyebrows. Her neck is perfect and full, but her fingers are thick and her hands are reddened from being busy with kitchen work. She is always found in work clothes and a headscarf.
İlya İlyiç Oblomov
Initially her tenant, later her husband and the father of her child, practically the god she served.
Andrey Karloviç Ştoltz
The noble gentleman who came from that lofty and intellectual world she does not understand and protected her husband.
İvan Matveyeviç Mühoyarov
The fraudulent brother who dominated her in the management of her house but with whom her interests later clashed.