person
Ivan Petrovich Semipalatov
Semipalatov
also: его превосходительство, Your Excellency
The vain, self-important chief of a provincial office whose infatuation with an actress and casual cruelty toward a subordinate clerk drive the story's forced-reading plot.
Reading notes
- Reading (A Tale of an Old Sparrow) §2 Ivan Petrovich Semipalatov
The office's superior, a self-important "chief" whose infatuation with an actress opens the story and whose vanity later drives its cruel practical joke.