person
Katashkin (county doctor)
Katashkin
also: Каташкин, Митрий Фомич, Mitry Fomich
The county doctor who arrives, uninvited, to examine Gryaznov and Lampadkin after hearing they were bitten by a possibly rabid dog; he cauterizes their bites with lunar caustic and warns them about hydrophobia, setting the plot's Pasteur-trip machinery in motion.