person
Melnitsky
also: Мельницкий
An invented embezzling treasurer of the (real) Moscow Foundling Home, whose stolen fortune is another thread of the blackmail plot.
Reading notes
- The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes §15 Melnitsky, treasurer of the Moscow Foundling Home
An invented embezzling official; the Moscow Foundling Home (Vospitatel'ny Dom) was a real, prominent charitable institution, making the alleged theft from it a stock detail of financial-scandal melodrama.