“Makar Andreevich Snezhkov was considered a serious person. But this was a somewhat special kind of seriousness: fidgety, nimble, annoying. He was, so to speak, in an eternal struggle with everything that is frivolous and incorrect in life. He had a certain point of view on everything in the world, and he could not tolerate any deviations from it. He always advised everyone, taught everyone - with conviction, loudly, in an unpleasant manner, to step on the interlocutor, take him by the sleeve, by the button, and - what is worst of all - to spray him with drool in the end. He always appeared somewhere at a run, threw a nasty, sweaty pot anywhere, sucked in air with his wide nostrils, and began right with a reprimand...” The work is given in the pre-reform alphabet.