AAA is also the acronym of Anna Andreevna Akhmatova.* Akhmatova's famous poem (1913) begins:
 
Все мы бражники здесь, блудницы
(We all here** are revellers, fornicatrices)
 
Van's angelic Russian tutor (AAA) is a drunkard, and the morals of his English governess/milkmaid (Miss Fortune, the younger sister of Demon's beautiful secretary) are not too strict.
 
*pen-name of A. A. Gorenko (1889-1966)
**in the St. Petersburg Stray Dog cabaret
 
Alexey Sklyarenko
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