This comic tale set on a remote country estate, concerns a household completely under the sway of the despotic Opiskin. The owner of the estate, the retired Col... » 

This comic tale set on a remote country estate, concerns a household completely under the sway of the despotic Opiskin. The owner of the estate, the retired Colonel Rostanov, is a meek giant of a man, cruelly dominated by Opiskin. The novel builds up to a confrontation between the two. «