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Ivan Ivanovich (Gogol)
Ivan Ivanovich
also: Иван Иванович
Title character of Gogol's comic tale of a petty, escalating feud between two neighbors of the same first name.
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 31 March 1888. Moscow. §4 Ivan Ivanovich
One of the two feuding neighbors of Gogol's "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich," invoked alongside Nozdryov as local color for the Poltava region.