Alexander Petrovich | i.e.: Dostoevsky |
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Chekunda | "...the dirtiest wench in the world." | 39 |
Korenev | "The flesh had gained so much the upper hand over all his mental attributes that you might see from the first glance at his face that there was nothing left in him but but a fierce thirst for bodily pleasure, sensuality, carnal satifaction." | 66 |
baygushi | "...some paupers, called by us baygushi, those who had gambled or drunk away all their money or were simply paupers by nature." | 69 |
Yankel | "...Gogal's little Jew, Yankel, in Taras Bulba, who, when he undressed to betake himself with his Jewess to some closet for the night , looked dreadfully like a chicken." | 78 |
Aristov | "...such complete moral degradation, such absolute corruption, and such brazen vileness, as in Astinov." | 90 |
zakuski | tea | 98 |
Almazov | "_, a dour, lean swarthy man, no longer young, unsociable and morose." | 117 |
Boguslavsky | "...another former nobleman, _. ... _ was a man still young, of puny and feeble physique, with a weak chest." | 118 |
Basil Antonov | "A powerfully athletic prisoner from the Civil division, Basil Antonov, a tall , bad-tempered, quarrelsome, sarcastic person, and no coward..." | 124 |
Luke Kuzmich | "yhere is really something sharp and overbearing about him: ' the bird is small, but his talons are sharp.' But prisoners instinctively see through people. Very few had any respect for him ..." | 130 |
Isaiah Fomich Bumstein | "... liked to steam himself into a stupor, into insensibility..." | 136 |
Stepan Dorofeich |
| 169 |
Varlanov |
| 171 |
Bulkin |
| 172 |
Balkushin | Play write of a drama in the House of the Dead | 177 |
General Ambrosimov |
| 178 |
Sirotkin | Cross-dresser from a drama in ... | 179 |
Netsvetaev | "... to give the part to Netsvetaev, not because he was more dashing and handsome than the other, but because he assured everybody he would come on with a walking-cane and would flourish it and trace designs on the ground with it like a real gentleman and the prince of dandies which _ |
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Vanka Otpety | "_ could not do, because he had never seen a real gentleman . . ." | 190 |
Chekunov | "he waa an old soldier; I could see from his face that he was lying." | 202 |
Ustyantsev | "... a consumtive ... soldier under sentence, Ustyantsev ... who, in terror of flogging, had drunk a jug of vodka in which a great deal of tobacco had been steeped, and thus contracted tuberculosis." | 203 |
Mikhaylov | "he had been ill for a long time and ought to have gone for treatment long before; but with a kind of obstinate and unnecessary patience he had steeled and conquered himself and had come to the hospital only at the holiday season, to die in three weeks of a terrible consumption which ate him up like a fire." | 206 |
Miretsky | "... telling me about his punishment; he was not a nobleman and had received five hundred strokes." | 224 |
Lieutenant Zherebyantnikov | "he was a tall, fat, gross man, not yet thirty, with bloated red cheeks, white teeth, and a loud, course course laugh." "The lieutenant, however, was something of a refined connoisseur of executions." | 226 |
Lieutenant Smekalov | "But Lieutenant Smekalov won specialfavour, so much so that even his way of flogging was referred to almost affectionately." | 230 |
Shapkin | "the prisoner, Shapkin, certainly had extremely long, prominent ears. He was a vagrant, still young, a quiet and sensible fellow, who always spoke with a kind of straight-faced, secret humour, that made some of his stories very funny." | 249 |
Shishkov | "He was an empty, silly creature. Sometimes he would be silent and sulky, behave very uncivilly and go for weeks without speaking." | 255 |
Akulka/Akulina "Akulka's Husband" | "...' So I grabs here by the hair; her plaits were so thick and long and I twisted them around my hands and I squeezed her btween my knees from behind and I took out my knife and bent her head back and I cut her throat like a calf . . . ... ' " - by Shishkov |
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Kvasov | "... was well known as a chatterbox and a 'rediculous' man, who they had long ago decided was not tobe trusted and who, whatever hesaid, never told the truth..." | 277 |
Gavrilka | "... was an incorrigible vagabond. | 283 |
Vaska | "... the [prison] goat..." | 294 |
Martynov | "...had once served the Hussars, a hot-headed, restless, suspicious man, but Honest and Upright. Another was _" |
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Vassily Antonov | "_ a man as it were cold-bloodedly irascible, with an insolent look, a smile of sarcastic superiority, and unusual intelligence, but eqully honest and truthful." | 313 |
Tokarzewsky | "...he was one of the gentlemen, a young man of strong and generous character, not very highlt educated and terribly fond of Bopguslavsky." | 316 |
Danylov | "...an extremely important person in our prison, possessing influence even over the major. He was a sly yourh, and very cunning, but not a bad fellow." | 318 |
Rastorguev | "...a tall and rather bloated young fellow..." | 319 |
Zhokhovsky | "...had once been a professor of mathematics somewhere, a good, kind old man, a greate ccentric and, in spite of his education, apperently extremely limited." |
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Miretsky | "...was deeply mistustful and embittered, but he could control himself surprisingly well." | 325 |
Lieutenant-colonel Kuplennikov | "...he made an unusually impression on all the prisoners. They not only liked him, they adored him, if such a word can be used here. ... He was I believe, terribly dissipated." | 333 |
Dranishnikov | "... one of the Engineer privates who guarded [the prisoners] at work..." | 336 |
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