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Mikhail Fyodorovich
also: Михаил Федорович, Михаил Федорыч
A philologist colleague and old friend of Nikolai Stepanovich in "A Dreary Story," a witty, perpetually joking man who is a frequent evening visitor to Katya's house, where he plays cards, trades cynical anecdotes, and (it is quietly implied by the letters Katya later drops on the floor in Kharkov) has become her lover.