person
Gruzdev
also: Груздев
A young telegraph clerk who takes a prostitute back to his rented room and delivers an earnest, cliche-ridden speech urging her to reform -- a would-be redeemer performing a role from popular fiction.
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- Words, Words, and Words §1 the telegraphist Gruzdev
A telegraph clerk -- a modest, respectable white-collar post in provincial Russia of the 1880s, the kind of steady young man who could afford an evening in a cheap numbered room but not much more.