person
Father Pankraty
also: отец Панкратий, Панкратий
A dean and Ivan Nikitich's own confessor, who once struck him publicly with a stick after mistakenly believing a newspaper item about another cleric had been written about him.
Reading notes
- The Correspondent §47 Father Pankraty
A local dean (blagochinny) and Ivan Nikitich's own confessor, privately nicknamed by him 'the paper-knife dean' (a pun on blagochinny/perochinny) after mistakenly believing an item Ivan Nikitich wrote was about him and caning him for it in the street.