person
Gubarev
also: слесарь Губарев
A locksmith said to have hanged himself at Shrovetide, mentioned only in passing when the passer-by falsely claims to be Gubarev's risen ghost; Gubarev himself never appears and the detail of his death by suicide is presented matter-of-factly, without dwelling, as part of the passer-by's fright tactics.
Reading notes
- An Evil Deed §57 the locksmith Gubarev, who hanged himself at Shrovetide
The passer-by's claim to be the risen ghost of a locksmith named Gubarev who died by suicide (hanging) during Shrovetide is presented as a matter-of-fact aside within his campaign of fright, not as a dwelt-on plot event -- Gubarev never appears in the story and the detail exists only to terrify the watchman into paralysis. The line is translated plainly, without added emphasis, consistent with the period's unadorned way of naming such deaths in passing.