character
Gavriil Petrovich Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov
also: Гавриил Петрович Кузнецов, Кузнецов, старик, Gavriil Petrovich
The bald, genial old chairman of the N--- district zemstvo board and Vera's father, who hosted Ognev throughout his summer of statistical fieldwork and sees him off on the story's opening evening.