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Count Alexei Petrovich
also: граф Алексей Петрович
Olga Mikhailovna's godfather and Pyotr Dmitrich's model for judicial grandeur, an old, doddering count nominally the district's arch-conservative; conspicuously absent from the name-day party, which uncle Nikolai Nikolaich reads as a bad social sign.
Reading notes
- The Name-Day Party §48 Count Alexei Petrovich
Olga Mikhailovna's godfather, the elderly count whom Pyotr Dmitrich nominally deputizes for as presiding judge; his old-fashioned, good-natured grandeur on the bench is what Pyotr Dmitrich imitates, badly, when he presides himself.