figure
Count Rubets-Otkachalov
also: граф Рубец-Откачалов
A wholly invented Russian landowner-count in this squib, whose comic surname (roughly 'Stub-Rockback') and manic pride in his lineage lead him to fake portraits of Adam and Eve inscribed with his own family name.
Reading notes
- Fintiflyushki §1 Count Rubets-Otkachalov
A wholly invented figure, his surname a comic coinage suggesting a bumpkin trying to appear grand (roughly 'Count Stub-Rockback'); a stock type of the newly ennobled provincial obsessed with lineage.