god
Themis
also: Фемида
The Greek Titaness personifying divine law, order, and justice, conventionally depicted with scales (here comically substituted with surgical shears).
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §35 Themis
The Greek goddess personifying justice, conventionally shown with scales; here Chekhov swaps her scales for the surgical shears of a real Moscow surgeon, turning an allegory of law into a nightmare for corrupt attorneys.
- In the Carriage §79 the priest of Themis
Themis, the Greek goddess of justice and law, whose iconography (scales, blindfold) made "priest/servant of Themis" a common ironic periphrasis for a lawyer or judicial official -- here mocking the sleeping magistrate.