person
Mikhailo
also: Михайло, Michel, Мишель
The bathhouse barber who delivers a rambling tirade against modern brides and "long-haired" men with ideas -- and, mistaking the bathhouse deacon on the upper shelf for a nihilist, nearly gets him reported to the authorities.
Reading notes
- At the Baths §15 I'm Mikhailo the barber
The story's central talker: a bathhouse barber whose free-associating tirade against modern brides and "long-haired" men opens the sketch and drives its comic misunderstanding.
- At the Baths §42 Michel
Mikhailo's affected French nickname among his lady clients, adopted because he also curls hair -- a small vanity that undercuts his pose of plain-spoken piety.