person
Panteley Petrovich
also: Пантелей Петрович, садовник, the gardener, "the swell"
The estate's gardener, introduced early as a figure of uncomplicated self-satisfaction, standing arms akimbo in a broad-brimmed straw hat and lecturing the cook about his new boots -- the story's first example of a person who meets spring with easy, animal contentment, unlike Makar.