Afanasy

He did not keep a female servant for fear people might think evil of him, but had as cook an old man of sixty, called Afanasy, half-witted and given to tippling, who had once been an officer’s servant and could cook after a fashion.

The Wife 2004

Afanasy Fyodorovich, the southern patriarch, was an idealistic communist who had worked his way up to secretary of the rural district committee, and received a golden watch on his fiftieth birthday as a present from Khrushchev—to be berated ever after by his wife for modestly choosing this reward rather than the other option, a car.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Afanasy Fyodorovich, the southern patriarch, was an idealistic communist who had worked his way up to secretary of the rural district committee, and received a golden watch on his fiftieth birthday as a present from Khrushchev—to be berated ever after by his wife for modestly choosing this reward rather than the other option, a car.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Afanasy Fyodorovich, the southern patriarch, was an idealistic communist who had worked his way up to secretary of the rural district committee, and received a golden watch on his fiftieth birthday as a present from Khrushchev—to be berated ever after by his wife for modestly choosing this reward rather than the other option, a car.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Afanasy Fyodorovich, the southern patriarch, was an idealistic communist who had worked his way up to secretary of the rural district committee, and received a golden watch on his fiftieth birthday as a present from Khrushchev—to be berated ever after by his wife for modestly choosing this reward rather than the other option, a car.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Bogdanovna, and you, Rakitin, I leave our good friend Afanasy

A Month in the Country 2006

Afanasy Ivanovitch wanted to see whether there were any mushrooms in the copse.

A Month in the Country 2006

But you have something else to count upon, far firmer and more reliable, and that's virtues, my dear Afanasy

A Month in the Country 2006

Upon my soul, would you have had me say my Afanasy

A Month in the Country 2006

He lay there while Afanasy, gloomy and scowling, hovered about him, sighing heavily, and smelling like a pothouse.

The Wife 2004