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Misail Poloznev
Misail
also: Misail Alexeich, Small Change
The narrator: the twenty-five-year-old son of the town's only architect, dismissed from nine consecutive clerical positions before renouncing 'a position in society' altogether to become a manual laborer and house-painter on principle, apprenticing under Radish. Marries Marya Viktorovna Dolzhikova and farms with her at Dubechnya; after her departure he settles into a quiet, dignified life as a painting contractor, raising his dead sister Kleopatra's daughter.