Lyagavy is the timber buyer whom Kuzma Samsonov names as a possible answer to Dmitri's desperate need for money. He is said to be bargaining over the Tchermashnya copse and staying near the Volovya station. Samsonov presents him as a practical man who might take up Dmitri's claim against Fyodor Pavlovitch.
VIII-II. Lyagavy
The priest at Ilyinskoe explains that the trader is really called Gorstkin and will be offended by the nickname Lyagavy. Dmitri finds him in an overheated forester's hut, drunk, snoring, and then still too drunk in the morning to understand the proposed bargain.
IX-IV. The Second Ordeal
Dmitri recounts the futile journey during the preliminary investigation. The failed errand helps establish how frantic and nearly penniless he was before the night's rush of events.
XII-VII. An Historical Survey
At trial, the prosecutor folds the Lyagavy expedition into his account of Dmitri's efforts to raise the three thousand roubles. The episode is treated as one more stage in the pressure tightening around him.
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