person
Kross
also: Кросс
Another name Ananyev finds carved into the gazebo railing, cut deep with a penknife by someone Ananyev imagines as "a very small and insignificant little man" keenly aware of his own unimportance, in "Lights" (1888).
Reading notes
- Lights §39 Some fellow named Kross
A second graffito name, whose deeply carved letters Ananyev reads as the mark of someone especially anxious to leave a trace of himself -- again anticipating, in miniature, the story's larger argument about individual insignificance against "thousands of years."