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Grigory Ivanovich Ovchinnikov
Dr. Ovchinnikov
also: Григорий Иванович Овчинников, Григорий Иваныч, Grigory Ivanych
A thirty-five-year-old zemstvo district doctor, thin and nervous, known for small works on medical statistics and devotion to 'questions of daily life'; strikes his drunken feldsher across the face during a hospital round and spends the following week failing to find a way to make amends that does not feel stupid, cowardly, or self-serving.
Reading notes
- An Unpleasantness §1 Grigory Ivanovich Ovchinnikov
The district zemstvo doctor whose single act of violence against his feldsher, and his week-long failure to find a way to make it right, form the whole of the story's action.