She is joyful, and her movements are enchanting, imperious and caressing. Zinaida's eyes are large, grey and perceptive. Her arms are beautiful, and her hair is fair. Zinaida has a graceful figure and a lovely face. Looshin, Count Malevsky, Captain Nirmatsky and Maidanov. Zinaida has many admirers: Byelovzorov, Dr. Princess Zinaida Zasyekin is the twenty-one year old daughter of the elderly Princess Zasyekin who rents the decrepit lodge in Keskootchy, located next door to the Petrovichs' summer house. Princess Zinaida Zasyekinappears in First Love Vladimir is struck with the need to offer a prayer for Zinaida, his father and himself. Petersburg, but it takes a week for him to visit her upon which he learns that she died four days earlier during childbirth. Several years later, after Vladimir has graduated from University, he learns that Zinaida is in St. Petrovich learns of her husband's affair with Zinaida and decides to move back to Moscow immediately, Vladimir takes his leave of Zinaida, assuring her of his everlasting love and devotion. Vladimir sees his father in the garden but does not ponder the subject. Count Malevsky chides Vladimir for being a bad page and suggests that the boy watch the garden to learn who Zinaida is in love with.
After Zinaida tells Vladimir that she wants him to love her as a friend but not as before, she appoints him her page. After Zinaida changes a lot over a week, Vladimir realizes that she has fallen in love, and he ponders whom she loves. Vladimir quickly falls in love with Zinaida who torments him by being kind at times and completely ignoring him at other times. When his mother sends him to Princess Zasyekin's lodge, he becomes a constant visitor to Zinaida. Vladimir first sees Zinaida in the garden and runs blushing to his room after his spying is discovered.
At this point in Vladimir's life, he does not have a clear image of women or love, but that changes when he meets the neighbor's daughter, Zinaida Zasyekin. He has an uncomfortable relationship with his parents Vladimir's mother scarcely notices him, and his father treats him with a good-humored indifference. Vladimir is preparing for University but has his freedom since his last tutor quit. He lives in Moscow with his parents, but his family leases a summer house near the Kaluga Toll-gate, in Keskootchy. In the narrative that he recalls, Vladimir Petrovich is sixteen years old during the summer of 1833. Vladimir does not want to tell the story but agrees to write it down and read it for his friends a few weeks later. Vladimir Petrovich is the protagonist of Ivan Turgenev's "First Love." He is one of the remaining guests in the frame story when the host suggests that they all tell the stories of their first loves.
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