person
Father Avraamy
also: отец Авраамий
Father Yakov's predecessor as priest of Sinkovo, stripped of his post for an unspecified 'weakness' (implied drunkenness) but still living, aged and destitute, in the village; Father Yakov secretly gives him at least three roubles a month rather than let a man of his former rank be reduced to begging.
Reading notes
- A Nightmare §86 выдавать отцу Авраамию, по крайней мере, хоть по три рубля в месяц
Father Yakov's support of his disgraced, destitute predecessor is not a formal pension but a private act of conscience: a priest defrocked or removed 'for a weakness' (implicitly drunkenness) had no institutional safety net, and Father Yakov -- himself desperately poor -- treats letting the old man beg as a sin he alone is answerable for.