person
Kirill Petrovich Shalikov
Shalikov
also: Кирилл Петрович Шаликов, акцизный, the excise officer
A petty, embittered, heavy-drinking excise official who was once a university man with progressive reading habits and is now reduced to counting himself merely a collegiate assessor; unable to bear his wife's happiness at a garrison dance, he drags her home early on a fabricated pretext and takes grim satisfaction as her joy collapses into humiliation.