person
Velelyeptov
also: его пр-во, his Excellency
Ponimaev's superior, an elderly general received by his clerks on New Year's Day -- affable, tipsy, and casually humiliating, he demands Ponimaev perform his old party trick of imitating a locomotive before his wife and her guests.
Reading notes
- The Liberal §19 Velelyeptov
Ponimaev's superior, an elderly general who receives the New Year's respects of his staff at home -- affably tipsy, and casually humiliating in the way only a secure superior can afford to be.