person
Pyotr Ivanych Shchepotkin
Shchepotkin
also: Щепоткин, Petr Ivanych, Ivan Petrovich (Dolbonosov's mistaken name for him)
A former tutor to Dolbonosov's children, now a law-university graduate serving as a clerk of special commissions under Podokonnikov and as secretary of the (fictitious) Ugaro-Debosherskaya Railway board; married to Secretary of State Lodkin's niece. His calm, indifferent disclosures of income and connections drive Dolbonosov's escalating deference.