person
Merik
also: Мерик
A swarthy, black-eyed drifter from the Kharkov region (Mizhirich), once nearly killed by a mob of Molokan tenant farmers who wrongly blamed him for a horse theft; a swaggering, admired figure who dreams aloud of murdering Lyubka's mother, cutting Lyubka's throat, and burning the inn to fund a new life in the Kuban -- a threat the story's ending suggests he has carried out.
Reading notes
- Thieves §40 Merik
A drifter from the Kharkov region who survived a near-fatal mob ducking under the ice (recounted sections 56-58) on a false accusation of horse theft; admired by Kalashnikov and Lyubka alike, he is the figure whose "unencumbered life" Yergunov comes to envy, and whose casually spoken threat at loc 74 the story's ending suggests he has made good on.
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