He looked as if he were anticipating the destruction of the world, not at some time in the future, according to prophecies that might not even come to pass, but as a fixed and definite thing, the day after tomorrow, let’s say, precisely at 10.25 in the morning. However, on that occasion we hardly uttered a word to
Charaterisation of Shigalyov. Later, Pyotr and Nikolay do make a big deal out of him so it'll be good to remember him
