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Osip Derevyashkin
Derevyashkin
also: Деревяшкин, Осип
A former chorister turned minor police clerk, insulted and struck by his old choirmaster Gradusov, whose complaint sets the story's chain of lawsuits in motion; not to be confused with the horse-thief Osip of 'Bezottsovshchina'/Platonov.