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Count Dare-Deviltry
also: граф Дерзай-Чертовщинов
A mentioned-but-unseen figure on the wife's side of the family in "Both Better", a comic-mock-heroic surname (literally "Dare-Devilry") who has robbed the unfortunate Generalsha Zherebchikova of her money.
Reading notes
- Both Better §11 Count Dare-Deviltry
A comic mock-aristocratic surname (literally "Dare ye, devilry"), part of Chekhov's early habit of inventing absurd names for minor figures in his humor-magazine sketches.