character
Karasevich
also: помещик Карасевич, the landowner Karasevich
A local landowner never seen in the story, invoked only as a point of comparison in the closing mock-police description: the foreign astronomer, seen from a distance, resembles him.
Reading notes
- The Wrongdoers §32 the landowner Karasevich
Invoked only as a point of comparison in the closing mock-police description of the foreign astronomer -- a stock device of the era's wanted notices and passport descriptions, which the narrators parody by cataloguing height, build, and facial features as though filing an official report.