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Pan Popèlski

A silent and mysterious Pan.

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Also known as the Pan, the small Pan, Pan, the silent Pan Popèlski, the taciturn Pan Popèlski, The Popèlski, Popèlski

First appearance: short fiction

Pan Popèlski shows up with force in The Blind Infant—The Family. The page is where that presence becomes real.

The father, a typical southwestern landowner, good-natured and preoccupied with his mills; he appears only briefly.

Pan Popèlski first appears in 0001 short fiction.

In The Blind Infant—The Family: The father, a typical southwestern landowner, good-natured and preoccupied with his mills; he appears only briefly.

Later, in III: Father of the blind child, a good-natured landowner focused on his mills.

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The Blind Infant—The Family
The father, a typical southwestern landowner, good-natured and preoccupied with his mills; he appears only briefly.
III
Father of the blind child, a good-natured landowner focused on his mills.
VI
The father who agrees to send for a piano from town at his wife's request.
VII
The silent father, mentioned as having been charmed by Pani Yatzènko's piano playing years ago.
III: The First Friendship
The taciturn father of Petrùsya, mentioned as having been involved in a lawsuit with the previous neighbor.
III
Mentioned as the taciturn neighbor who had a lawsuit with the former possessor of the estate.
VI
Pan Valentine Yaskùlski, the Possessor, who initially disapproves of Evelyn's education but later compromises.
I
The father has brought his estate into prosperous condition but troubles himself little about his son's future life.
II
Mentioned as the owner of the estate where the visit takes place.
VII
Dozes quietly in his chair, waiting for supper.
V
Mentioned as a Catholic, but the child (Peter) was baptized in the mother's church by an Orthodox priest.

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