Also known as Mr. Maximov, old Maximov, Maximushka, von Sohn.
Maximov is an elderly Tula landowner who intrudes on the monastery visitors just as they are trying to find the hermitage. He runs more than walks, stares with nervous curiosity, and offers to show the way. Fyodor Pavlovitch immediately turns him into a comic object by comparing him to von Sohn.
II-VIII. The Scandalous Scene
He follows the visitors into the monastery dinner scandal and is mocked by Fyodor Pavlovitch before being shoved aside by Ivan.
VIII-VI. “I Am Coming, Too!”
At Mokroe, he reappears as a comic gentleman staying after a pilgrimage, part of the company around Grushenka.
VIII-VII. The First And Rightful Lover
His absurd stories about marriages, cavalry officers, Gogol, and being beaten make Kalganov laugh and briefly lighten the strained room.
IX-VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe
As a timid witness, he wildly estimates that Dmitri held twenty thousand roubles, making his testimony useless except as comedy.
XI-I. At Grushenka’s
After Mokroe, Grushenka lets the homeless old man stay on her sofa, feeds him, scolds him, and turns him into a harmless companion in her anxious household.
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