person
Sergei Sergeich Lesnitsky
Lesnitsky
also: Лесницкий, Seryozha, Сережа, Sergei Sergeich, Сергей Сергеич
The zemstvo insurance agent whose body opens the story. Ruined by his father's debts and given the insurance post as a family favor by his uncle, the chairman of the zemstvo board, he chafed at a job beneath his pride and shot himself three days before the story begins; in Lyzhin's dream he walks beside Loshadin as the two merge into one figure.
Reading notes
- On Official Business §2 Lesnitsky
Sergei Sergeich (Seryozha) Lesnitsky, the zemstvo insurance agent whose body opens the story; ruined by his father's debts and pushed into work he despised, he shot himself three days before the story begins.