person
Kiryakov
also: Кирьяков, коллежский асессор Кирьяков
A collegiate assessor who fetches the midwife Marya Petrovna late at night for his wife's labor, insisting on haggling her fee to the kopeck before he will hire her; at home his relentless, joyless rectitude over money, servants, and his own small son reveals a suffocating domestic tyranny that never once raises a hand or a voice.