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Akim Danilych
also: Аким Данилыч
The blustering police chief who arrives to "disperse" the crowd, threatens Optimov over his newspaper writing, and later composes a fawning, self-congratulatory report to his superior claiming credit for averting disaster.
Reading notes
- Ferment of Minds §69 Akim Danilych
The blustering local police chief, who arrives to disperse the crowd, threatens Optimov over his newspaper writing, and later writes a fawning report to his superior taking credit for averting disaster.
- To N. A. Leikin, 17 June 1884. Moscow. §14 Akim Danilych
The blustering police-chief character in "The Fermenting of Minds"; Chekhov objects that an editorial insertion attributing a riot to a flock of starlings undercuts the character's comic logic, since he would never admit to so trifling a cause.