Kouzma

Family: Levin household · Role: household servant · First appears: PART ONE · Chapter 26

As a household servant of the Levin household, Kouzma serves Levin, who calls on him for his sheepskin and a lantern in chapter 26. In chapter 48, he attends Stepan Arkadyevitch, dressing him in his stockings and boots, and in chapter 75 Sergey Ivanovitch asks him to bring down a letter and shut the doors.

By chapter 126, Kouzma is still preparing Levin for the day, laying out his clothes. At the hotel in chapter 127, he packs Levin’s wedding clothes without a clean shirt, delaying the departure, but “At last the guilty Kouzma flew panting into the room with the shirt.” After Levin’s marriage, chapter 191 places Kouzma as the old servant who looks after the household in town. In chapter 200, he tells Levin that Kitty is well, reports that her sisters have gone, and hands him two letters.

Relationship record

Life events

• Kouzma mistakenly packs Levin’s wedding clothes without the required clean shirt, delaying his departure.(PART FIVE · Chapter 3 · 📍 hotel)
  • With: Levin
  • “Kouzma had not thought of leaving out a clean shirt, and on receiving instructions to pack up everything and send it round to the Shtcherbatskys’ house, from which the young people were to set out the same evening, he had done so, packing everything but the dress suit.”
• Kouzma delivers the shirt, enabling Levin to leave for the church.(PART FIVE · Chapter 3 · 📍 hotel)
  • With: Levin
  • “At last the guilty Kouzma flew panting into the room with the shirt.”
• Levin leaves to fetch the doctor and encounters Lizaveta Petrovna on her way to assist Kitty.(PART SEVEN · Chapter 13)
  • With: Levin Lizaveta Petrovna
  • “At the corner he met a night cabman driving hurriedly. In the little sledge, wrapped in a velvet cloak, sat Lizaveta Petrovna with a kerchief round her head.”

PART ONE · Chapter 26

• employer: Levin “‘Kouzma, give me my sheepskin. And you tell them to take a lantern. I’ll come and look at her,’ he said to the bailiff.”

PART TWO · Chapter 14

• employer: Stepan Arkadyevitch “Kouzma, who already scented a big tip, never left Stepan Arkadyevitch’s side, and put on him both his stockings and boots, a task which Stepan Arkadyevitch readily left him.”
• employer: Levin “Kouzma, who already scented a big tip, never left Stepan Arkadyevitch’s side, and put on him both his stockings and boots, a task which Stepan Arkadyevitch readily left him.”

PART THREE · Chapter 6

• employer: Sergey Ivanovitch “Oh, by the way, there’s a letter for you,” said he. “Kouzma, bring it down, please. And mind you shut the doors.”

PART FIVE · Chapter 2

• with Levin (Levin instructs Kouzma to prepare his clothes.) “‘Yes,’ answered Levin, and he told Kouzma to put out his clothes for him to dress.”
• employer: Levin “‘Of course; I shall be delighted.’ ‘We’ll come on directly with him. Are your things sent off?’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch. ‘Yes,’ answered Levin, and he told Kouzma to put out his clothes for him to dress.”

PART FIVE · Chapter 15

• employer: Levin (Kouzma is serving in Levin's household.) “Work did not progress further, and they darted apart from one another like culprits when Kouzma came in to announce that tea was ready.”

PART SEVEN · Chapter 2

• employer: Levin (Levin is Kouzma’s employer.) “On the steps Levin was stopped by his old servant Kouzma, who had been with him before his marriage, and now looked after their household in town.”
• employer: Kitty (Kouzma looked after Kitty and Levin’s household.) “On the steps Levin was stopped by his old servant Kouzma, who had been with him before his marriage, and now looked after their household in town.”

PART SEVEN · Chapter 11

• with Levin (Kouzma reports household information to Levin and gives him his letters.) “At home Kouzma told Levin that Katerina Alexandrovna was quite well, and that her sisters had not long been gone, and he handed him two letters.”

PART SEVEN · Chapter 13

• with Levin (Levin gives Kouzma instructions while arranging transport.) “The horse was not yet ready, but feeling a peculiar concentration of his physical forces and his intellect on what he had to do, he started off on foot without waiting for the horse, and told Kouzma to overtake him.”

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