person
Anisim Grechnev
Anisim Petrovich
also: Анисим Петрович, Анисим Гречнев, the uncle
The garrulous, moralizing uncle who answers his nephew's love-struck letter with a rambling account of his visit to the Murdashevichs -- warm, digressive, and unwittingly delivers the news that Mashenka has married someone else.
Reading notes
- Two Letters §2 Anisim Petrovich
The narrator's uncle, addressed here by first name and patronymic and later signing as Anisim Grechnev; a garrulous, moralizing older relative of the invented Grechnev family.