Platon

Also known as: Fokanitch / Uncle Fokanitch · Role: well-to-do peasant · First appears: PART EIGHT · Chapter 11

Life events

Levin learns that Platon forgives debts and refuses to exploit others, living according to God’s way.(PART EIGHT · Chapter 11 · 📍 Pokrovskoe)
- With: Levin
- “But Uncle Fokanitch” (so he called the old peasant Platon), “do you suppose he’d flay the skin off a man? Where there’s debt, he’ll let anyone off. And he’ll not wring the last penny out. He’s a man too.”

with Levin (Levin considers Platon as a prospective tenant.) “Levin talked to Fyodor about this land and asked whether Platon, a well-to-do peasant of good character belonging to the same village, would not take the land for the coming year.”
with Fyodor (The chapter identifies Platon as belonging to the same village as Fyodor in the surrounding passage.) “Fyodor came from a village at some distance from the one in which Levin had once allotted land to his cooperative association. Now it had been let to a former house porter.”
with Kirillov (Fyodor contrasts Platon's righteousness with Kirillov's selfishness.) “One man lives for his own wants and nothing else, like Mituh, he only thinks of filling his belly, but Fokanitch is a righteous man.”

Extracted from the original text of Anna Karenina. Made with Rho MD.