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