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Pechorin
also: Печорин
Grigory Pechorin, the disaffected, emotionally destructive protagonist of Mikhail Lermontov's novel "A Hero of Our Time" (1840), archetypal Caucasus-set Russian "superfluous man"; named here in passing among the mixed literary references -- alongside Onegin and Kazbek -- that Chekhov says crowd his unnamed love-elopement story-in-progress.
Reading notes
- The Duel §149 Pechorin
The disaffected antihero of Lermontov's 'A Hero of Our Time'; another of the literary types Laevsky invokes to excuse his own failings.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 24–25 November 1888. Moscow. §3 of Pechorin, of Onegin, of Kazbek
Pechorin, the protagonist of Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time," is named alongside Onegin (Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin") and Kazbek (the Caucasian peak) as part of the "vinaigrette" of Caucasus-and-superfluous-man reference points Chekhov says crowds his story-in-progress; see the allusions file for the literary-allusion treatment of Pechorin and Onegin.