Character: Yegor Alexeich Svoykin

Strange people, by God! he thought. - Why do they put a learned color on their faces? They tear their neighbors at exorbitant prices, they sell ointments for hair growth, and looking at their faces, you might think that they really are the priests of science. They write in Latin, they speak German ... They make something of a medieval person ... In a healthy state, you don’t notice these dry, callous physiognomies, but when you get sick, like I do now, you’ll be horrified that the holy cause has got into the hands of this insensitive ironing figure...