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Matvei Nikolaich
also: Матвей Николаич
The kindly, hard-drinking schoolmaster of Bishop Pyotr's childhood village, remembered for a nonsensical Latin motto hung over his birch rods and for naming his shaggy black dog Syntax.
Reading notes
- The Bishop §18 Matvei Nikolaich
The kindly, hard-drinking schoolmaster of Bishop Pyotr's childhood village, remembered for a nonsensical Latin motto over his birch rods and for naming his dog Syntax.