person
Pantelei
also: Пантелей
Major Shchelkolobov's put-upon valet, hairdresser, and floor-scrubber, who supplies the major with a self-justifying anecdote about a wife-beating judge.
Reading notes
- If You Chase Two Hares, You Won't Catch Either §3 his valet, hairdresser, and floor-scrubber Pantelei
The major's all-purpose serf-turned-servant, forced to double as barber and cleaner -- a stock comic figure of the put-upon domestic.