figure
The Deacon
the deacon
also: Дьякон
An unnamed Orthodox deacon among the mourners at the memorial meal, whose skeptical grunts and cough puncture the postmaster's boasts about his late wife's fidelity.
Reading notes
- At the Post Office §6 the deacon
An unnamed Orthodox deacon among the mourners, whose skeptical grunts and coughs puncture the widower's boasts; a stock skeptical-clergyman figure in Chekhov's comic sketches.