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Major-General Buldeyev
Buldeyev
also: генерал-майора Булдеева, Булдеев, the general, Alyosha, Алеша
A retired major-general whose toothache and his steward's forgotten reference to a tooth-charming healer touch off a household-wide, ultimately futile hunt for a 'horsy' surname.
Reading notes
- A Horsy Name §2 Major-General Buldeyev
A retired general in the Russian civil or military Table of Ranks; a landowner of substantial means, as the size of his household and estate (children, servants, a steward, a kitchen boy) makes clear.