The Ruined Family
[Translated by F.B. Collins, B.S.]
Dramatis Personae
OSSEP GULABIANZ, a merchant.
SALOME, his wife.
NATO, his daughter.
CHACHO, Ossep’s aunt.
GEWO, a merchant, Ossep’s friend.
ALEXANDER MARMAROW, a young official.
BARSSEGH LEPROINK, a merchant.
KHALI, his wife.
MOSI, Leproink’s relative.
MICHO, shop-boy at Leproink’s.
DARTSCHO, clerk at Leproink’s.
MARTHA, Salome’s friend.
Guests, an executor, his secretary, creditors, witnesses, and several servants.
The scene is Tiflis. The first and third acts take place in Ossep’s house, the second in Barssegh’s.