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Markel Ivanovich Lokhmatov
Lokhmatov
also: Маркел Иванович Лохматов, Маркел Иваныч, Маркел Иванович, Лохматов, Markel Ivanych, Markel Ivanovich
A retired collegiate secretary, henpecked and habitually idle on the sofa, who is sent by his wife Pelageya Petrovna to the chemist's for medicine for their sick turkey and blunders through a mutual misunderstanding with the pharmacist and his assistant.