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Pan (Polish honorific)

pan

Polish for 'sir' or 'lord'; Semyon uses it mockingly to address the Polish steward Rzhevetsky, turning a term of respect into an ethnic jab while defying him.

Reading notes

The Lady of the Manor §223 pan
Polish for 'sir' or 'lord,' used mockingly by Semyon to address the Polish steward Rzhevetsky -- turning a term of respect into an ethnic jab in the middle of defying him.

Mentioned in 32 works (37 mentions)

The Lady of the Manor Stories · 1 mention

§223 pan

Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) Juvenilia · 2 mentions

The Alarm Clock's Calendar Stories · 1 mention

§19 pan

Live Merchandise Stories · 2 mentions

Once a Year Stories · 1 mention

§1 pan

Tears Invisible to the World Stories · 1 mention

§20 pan

The Impresario Under the Sofa Stories · 1 mention

§7 pan

Marriage Ten or Fifteen Years On Stories · 1 mention

§2 pan

An Expensive Dog Stories · 1 mention

§17 pan

To M. P. Chekhov, 10 May 1885. Babkino. letter · 1 mention

§8 pan

The Witch Stories · 1 mention

§6 pan

Someone Else's Trouble Stories · 1 mention

§17 pan

To V. V. Bilibin, 18 January 1886. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§12 pan

Cold Blood Stories · 1 mention

§41 pan

The Critic Stories · 1 mention

§13 pan

To the Chekhovs, 7 April 1887. Taganrog. letter · 2 mentions

To the Chekhovs, 11 April 1887. Taganrog. letter · 1 mention

§7 pan

To Al. P. Chekhov, 3 September 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§2 pan

The Siren Stories · 1 mention

§28 pan

The Wedding Stories · 1 mention

§33 pan

The Wrongdoers Stories · 1 mention

§25 pan

The Cobbler and the Devil Stories · 1 mention

§27 pan

Thieves Stories · 1 mention

§42 pan

To A. S. Suvorin, 1 November 1889. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§10 pan

Notebooks. Diaries Notebooks · 1 mention

§2288 pan

Ariadne Stories · 1 mention

§81 pan

My Life: A Provincial's Story Stories · 3 mentions

The Murder Stories · 1 mention

§31 pan

The Lady with the Little Dog Stories · 1 mention

§69 pan

At Christmastime Stories · 1 mention

§6 pan

Three Sisters Plays · 1 mention

§455 pan

In the Ravine Stories · 1 mention

§11 pan