figure
Pan Twardowski
also: пана Твардовского
The legendary Polish "Faust" of Central European folklore, a nobleman said to have sold his soul to the devil; his legendary death (carried off to the moon, in most versions) is here relocated to a tavern comically named "Rome."
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §19 Pan Twardowski
The legendary Polish sorcerer-nobleman of Central European folklore, a Faust figure who bargained with the devil; his folkloric death is here relocated, as a joke, to a Moscow tavern called "Rome."