Also known as the innkeeper, the inn-keeper, the landlord, his old acquaintance, the swindler.
Trifon Borissovitch is the innkeeper at Plastunov's Inn, a prosperous peasant landlord who scents profit when Dmitri arrives. He is severe with the peasants around him, flattering with guests who have money, and deeply alert to what can be made from a drunken spree. He welcomes Dmitri Karamazov eagerly because he remembers the cash spent at Mokroe only weeks before.
VIII-VII. The First And Rightful Lover
He supplies cards, champagne, and rooms, then exposes the Poles' substituted pack when the quarrel turns ugly.
IX-II. The Alarm
Mavriky Mavrikyevitch has quietly alerted him before the officials arrive, and Trifon removes Dmitri's pistol case from reach.
IX-VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe
As a witness, he testifies sternly that Dmitri spent thousands at Mokroe and shouted about the sixth thousand, worsening Dmitri's position in the inquiry.
XII-II. Dangerous Witnesses
At the trial, his detailed money calculations look damaging until Fetyukovitch discredits him over a hundred roubles found during the earlier Mokroe spree.
Epilogue II. For A Moment The Lie Becomes Truth
After the verdict, he tears apart his inn in search of the hidden fifteen hundred roubles imagined by the prosecutor.
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