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Ivan Petrovich Kamyshev
Kamyshev
also: Иван Петрович Камышев, the gentleman with the cockade
A handsome, ingratiating former examining magistrate who submits his manuscript 'A Drama at the Hunt' to the narrator's newspaper; the framing narrator distrusts him on sight even as he cannot say why, and it is Kamyshev's own first-person manuscript that forms the novel's main body.