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Savely Gykin

Savely

also: Савелий Гыкин, Гыкин, Savely, Gykin

The sexton (dyachok) of an abolished rural parish, now reduced to serving as watchman over the empty church. Convinced his young wife Raisa is a witch who conjures blizzards to lure travelers to their watch-house, he spends the story's snowbound night alternately accusing her and, once alone with her again, unable to resist reaching for her.

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