Lampadkin (teacher at the county school)

The stout schoolteacher at the county school, Gryaznov's lodger and companion, bitten on the calf by the same dog; pedantically preoccupied with the grammarian Grot's rulings on case endings, he is the one eager for the trip to Paris and the sole one who straggles home again, alone, after their travel fund is drunk away in Kursk.