person
Grigory Kuzmich
also: Григорий Кузьмич
The story's unnamed-by-surname first-person narrator, a minor clerk promoted to cashier whose confession of embezzlement, brought on by a sudden circle of flattering hangers-on, forms the whole piece.
Reading notes
- A Confession §4 Grigory Kuzmich
The story's unnamed first-person narrator, revealed only by this patronymic form of address; a minor clerk elevated to cashier whose confession of embezzlement structures the whole piece.