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Nekrichikhvostov
also: Некричихвостов
An invented comic surname roughly meaning 'don't-shout-tail,' given to the loud, self-important clerk to the marshal of the nobility who repeatedly drives the drinking bout forward.
Reading notes
- St. Peter's Day §85 the clerk to the marshal of the nobility, Nekrichikhvostov
An invented comic surname roughly meaning 'don't-shout-tail,' given to the loud, self-important clerk who proposes dissecting a ground squirrel and repeatedly drives the drinking bout forward.