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Lev Trofimovich
also: Лев Трофимович, Лев Трофимыч, Lev Trofimych
The gray-haired, bald chairman of the district zemstvo board, a fussy and self-important figure who cares chiefly about appearances; arrives at the justice's chambers to broker a face-saving reconciliation between the doctor and the feldsher, ending the matter with an extracted apology and no real resolution.
Reading notes
- An Unpleasantness §35 Lev Trofimovich
The chairman of the district zemstvo board, the doctor's nominal superior, whose eventual intervention resolves the surface conflict without addressing anything the doctor actually wanted resolved.
- An Unpleasantness §120 Lev Trofimovich
The chairman's dramatic, breathless entrance marks the turn toward the story's anticlimactic resolution: a stage-managed apology rather than any real reckoning.