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Ivan Ivanych Lapkin
Lapkin
also: Иван Иваныч Лапкин
A young man courting Anna Semyonovna by the riverbank; his declarations of love are repeatedly interrupted, and later blackmailed, by her small brother Kolya.
Reading notes
- The Bad Boy §1 Ivan Ivanych Lapkin
The story's suitor, whose halting proposal-in-progress is repeatedly derailed by fish and, worse, by his sweetheart's little brother.