Denis Grigoryev Himself
Before the magistrate, there is a “small, extremely skinny man in a striped hempen shirt and patched drawers”. His hair-covered and pitted face and eyes, barely visible because of dense, overhanging eyebrows, have an “expression of gloomy severity”. On the head, there is a “perfect mop of tangled, unkempt hair”. The image of Denis Grigoryev gives an impression of an uneducated and poor man.
Water world
Confessing to his crime, Denis Grigoryev says that the bolts are needed for fishing. There are many kinds of fish in the river. There are, for instance, a “perch, a pike, and a shillisper”. The image of the river’s inhabitants gives an impression of nature’s riches.
