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Ivan Nikiforovich

Name: Chekhov Entire
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

also: Иваном Никифоровичем

The other title character of Gogol's comic feud tale, quarreling endlessly with his neighbor and near-namesake Ivan Ivanovich.

Reading notes

To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 31 March 1888. Moscow. §4 Ivan Nikiforovich
The other feuding neighbor of Gogol's tale, paired here with Ivan Ivanovich as a comic byword for the region's small towns.

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