Marmeladov, Semyon Zakharovich

Former civil servant; husband to Katerina Ivanovna and father to Sonya

Description: He was a fairly solidly built man of over fifty, of medium height, with greying hair and a marked bald patch. His face, bloated from continuous drinking, was of a yellow, even perhaps greenish, tinge, with puffy eyelids, from under which gleamed tiny but spirited reddish eyes. But there was something very odd about him: he had a light in hi…