person
Aksinya
also: Аксинья, прачка Аксинья
A washerwoman invented on the spot by Yermolay as the mother of a baby supposedly left on a porch and carried off -- a fiction Miguyev seizes on to retract his confession to his wife.
Reading notes
- An Act of Lawlessness §31 the washerwoman Aksinya
Yermolay's remark is offered as idle yard gossip, not knowledge of Miguyev's situation -- but its coincidental resemblance (a baby, a porch, a disappearance) hands the panicking Miguyev, a paragraph later, exactly the fiction he needs to retract his confession to his wife.