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Updated: May 21, 2025
The duties of valet, steward, and waiter are filled by Policarp, an extraordinary old man of seventy, a queer fellow, full of erudition, once a violinist and worshipper of Viotti, with a personal hostility to Napoleon, or, as he calls him, Bonaparty, and a passion for nightingales.
Policarp has, to help him, his grandson Vasya, a curly-headed, sharp-eyed boy of twelve; Policarp adores him, and grumbles at him from morning till night. He undertakes his education too. 'Vasya, he says, 'say Bonaparty was a scoundrel. 'And what'll you give me, granddad? 'What'll I give you?... I'll give you nothing.... Why, what are you?
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