person
Yakov
also: Яков
The village school's toothless old watchman, about seventy, who complains that Aksinya has driven old Tsybukin out of his own house; his speech carries an authorial toothless mispronunciation, kept untranslated-smooth on purpose.
Reading notes
- In the Ravine §318 Yakov, the school watchman
The village school's toothless old watchman, about seventy, who complains that Aksinya has driven old Tsybukin out of his own house; his speech carries an authorial toothless mispronunciation preserved in translation.