figure
King Dodon IV
also: царем Додоном IV
A fabricated Persian king; the name Dodon echoes the comic-tsar Dodon of Russian fairy tale and Pushkin's "Tale of the Golden Cockerel."
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §4 Dodon IV
A fabricated "Persian king"; the name Dodon recalls the buffoonish Tsar Dodon of Russian fairy tale and Pushkin's *The Tale of the Golden Cockerel*.