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Person

Yefim Petrovitch Polenov

Also known as Yefim Petrovitch.

Yefim Petrovitch Polenov is the General's Widow's heir and the Marshal of Nobility of the province. He treats the abandoned Ivan and Alexey with unusual honesty, keeps their small legacy intact, and educates them at his own expense. The narrator singles him out as the person to whom the two younger Karamazov brothers owe the most in their upbringing.

I-IV. The Third Son, Alyosha

Alyosha is remembered as having lived in Yefim Petrovitch's household and won the affection of the whole family without effort.

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