The caretaker of Sorin’s estate. He approaches his work, far from artistry as it is, with the same obsessive need for control that Trigorin, Treplyov, and Arkadina all exhibit. Easily impressed by fame and tales of life in the theater, he’s often asking Arkadina to regale him with stories about her famous friends and her old days as a successful actress in Moscow.
Ilya Afanasevich Shamraev Quotes in The Seagull
The The Seagull quotes below are all either spoken by Ilya Afanasevich Shamraev or refer to Ilya Afanasevich Shamraev. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 4
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SHAMRAEV: (To Trigorin.) Hey, Boris Alekseevich, that thing of yours is still here.
TRIGORIN: What thing?
SHAMRAEV: A while back Konstantin Gavrilovich shot a gull, and you asked me to have it stuffed.
TRIGORIN: Don’t remember. (Thinking about it.) Don’t remember!
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Ilya Afanasevich Shamraev Quotes in The Seagull
The The Seagull quotes below are all either spoken by Ilya Afanasevich Shamraev or refer to Ilya Afanasevich Shamraev. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 4
Quotes
SHAMRAEV: (To Trigorin.) Hey, Boris Alekseevich, that thing of yours is still here.
TRIGORIN: What thing?
SHAMRAEV: A while back Konstantin Gavrilovich shot a gull, and you asked me to have it stuffed.
TRIGORIN: Don’t remember. (Thinking about it.) Don’t remember!
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