character
Afanasy
also: Афанасий
The bootmaker's journeyman, heard snoring in the next room alongside the master as the story opens; mentioned only this once.
Reading notes
- Sleepy §7 the journeyman Afanasy
"Подмастерье" -- a journeyman, a trained worker in the bootmaker's trade ranking below the master (khozyain) but above an apprentice; Afanasy is mentioned only here, asleep alongside the master in the next room while Varka is kept awake with the baby.