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Kifa Mokievich
also: Кифа Мокиевич
A minor character in Gogol's Dead Souls, a landowner given to idle, pointless philosophical rumination; a literary in-joke reference here.
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §208 Kifa Mokievich
A minor character from Gogol's *Dead Souls* (Part Two), a landowner given to idle philosophical rumination; naming him a "name-day celebrant" is an in-joke for readers of Gogol.