person
Andrei Chirikov
Chirikov
also: Андрей Чириков, Andrei Grigorich, Андрей Григорьич, Andrei Grigoryevich
The late keeper of the disreputable roadside inn where the story takes place, recently murdered by carters before the story opens; Lyubka's father and, in Kalashnikov's nostalgic account, once a fellow horse thief who helped drive off nine army horses in a daring raid.
Reading notes
- Thieves §4 Andrei Chirikov's
The inn's late keeper, murdered by carters shortly before the story opens -- an act of violence mentioned in passing and never investigated or avenged within the story, establishing from the first page the lawless, unpoliced world Yergunov is about to enter.