person
Mikhail Petrovich Kuvaldin
Kuvaldin
also: Михаил Петрович Кувалдин, Михайло Петрович, Miha, Misha, Mishenka
A sickly railway-office clerk and titular councillor, estranged from his wife Anna but still devoted to her; the butt of Piskarev's fumbled attempt to break the news of her (false) death.