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Ivan Petrovich Panikhidin
Panikhidin
The narrator of the framed ghost story, whose surname derives from 'panikhida' (a Russian Orthodox requiem service) -- the first of the story's comic morbid names.
Reading notes
- A Terrible Night §1 Ivan Petrovich Panikhidin
The narrator's surname derives from panikhida, the Russian Orthodox requiem service for the dead -- the first of the story's parade of comically funereal names.