person
Sysoy Petrovich
also: Сысой Петрович
A former town governor who, years earlier, had Ivan Nikitich locked up for three days over an unflattering piece of correspondence -- recalled by Ivan Nikitich as the bitterest memory of his career.
Reading notes
- The Correspondent §47 Sysoy Petrovich
A former town governor (gorodnichiy) who, in Ivan Nikitich's reminiscence, once had him locked in a cold cell over a piece of correspondence -- a petty tyrant recalled with lingering, comic bitterness.