person
Grigory Petrovich Zapoykin
Zapoykin
also: Григорий Петрович Запойкин, Запойкин, Гриша
A young man with a rare talent for improvising wedding, jubilee, and funeral speeches in any state whatsoever; fetched to eulogize a deceased office secretary, he delivers his stock oration over the wrong grave while the living official he is describing looks on in outrage.