person
Sergei Kapitonych Akhineev
Akhineev
also: Sergei Kapitonych, Ахинеев
A penmanship teacher marrying off his daughter, whose panicked attempt to head off a rumor of kissing the cook ends up spreading it to every guest at the wedding himself.
Reading notes
- Slander §1 Sergei Kapitonych Akhineev
A penmanship teacher marrying off his daughter; the story's anxious, self-incriminating protagonist, whose surname suggests officious pedantry.