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Ivan Petrovich Turkin
Ivan Petrovich
The head of the Turkin family: a stout, joking amateur actor with a private comic vocabulary of invented words ('bigsome,' 'not badsome') and stock catchphrases, who treats his own wit as inexhaustible entertainment and never once changes across the story's many years.
Reading notes
- Ionych §4 Ivan Petrovich
The head of the Turkin family: an amateur actor devoted to charity theatricals and to a private comic vocabulary of invented words -- 'bigsome,' 'not badsome' -- that he uses on nearly every occasion for the rest of the story.