person
Karl Karlovich
also: Карл Карлович
An unseen tutor invoked only in the narrator's essayistic aside on children's education -- his "dry, pallid" lectures are contrasted, unfavorably, with the wordless moral lessons household animals teach a child.
Reading notes
- An Event §11 dry, pallid Karl Karlovich
The unseen tutor invoked only in the narrator's aside -- a stock figure of the German-surnamed live-in tutor employed by prosperous Russian households, here set up as the dry counterpart to the household pets' wordless moral education.