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Khlestakov
also: Хлестаков
The impostor protagonist of Gogol's The Government Inspector, mistaken for a powerful official; a stock Russian byword for a preening fraud.
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §208 Khlestakov
The impostor at the center of Gogol's *The Government Inspector*, mistaken for a feared official; recurs in this calendar as a stock byword for a preening fraud.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 8 February 1889. Moscow. §4 Khlestakov
The impostor protagonist of Gogol's "The Government Inspector," cited alongside Chatsky as a stock example of a 'ready-made' dramatic hero.