Also known as the Polish gentleman with the pipe, the Pole with the pipe, the Pole in the wig, Pan Mussyalovitch, Mussyalovitch.
Grushenka's former officer is the man who wronged Grushenka five years before and now sends for her from Mokroe. At his first safe horizon he is still mostly an absence: a letter, a summoned carriage, and the memory of a betrayal that has shaped Grushenka's pride and anger. Rakitin says he is a Pole and no officer now, but Grushenka is still waiting to see what his return means.
VIII-V. A Sudden Resolution
Fenya tells Dmitri that Grushenka has gone to Mokroe to the same man who threw her over five years before.
VIII-VII. The First And Rightful Lover
At Mokroe he appears as a pompous Polish gentleman with a pipe, a wig, and a chilly claim to be Grushenka's rightful lover.
VIII-VII. The First And Rightful Lover
His card play is exposed as cheating, and Grushenka recognizes that the figure she mourned for five years has become small and contemptible to her.
IX-VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe
During the investigation he is named Pan Mussyalovitch, a retired official of the twelfth class who served in Siberia as a veterinary surgeon, and his testimony about Dmitri's attempted payoff strengthens the case.
XI-I. At Grushenka’s
By the eve of the trial, Mussyalovitch and Vrublevsky are reduced to begging letters and small loans from Grushenka, which provokes Dmitri's jealousy.
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