person
Plyushkin
also: Плюшкин
The miserly landowner of Gogol's Dead Souls, whose name became a Russian byword for pathological stinginess.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Lazarev, 1 November 1889. Moscow. §10 Plyushkin
The miserly landowner of Gogol's Dead Souls, whose name became a Russian byword for pathological stinginess; invoked here in self-deprecating mock indignation at Lazarev's gift of postage stamps.
- To A. A. Dolzhenko, 29 July 1891. Bogimovo. §9 you Plyushkins
Invokes Gogol's miserly landowner from Dead Souls, already established in this corpus, as a byword for pathological stinginess -- part of the same cascading string of insults as the surrounding "skinflints" and the slur that follows, aimed at Dolzhenko (and, by implication, his mother) over the scrupulous return of six roubles.
- A Reporter's Dream §4 Plyushkin
The miserly landowner of Gogol's Dead Souls, whose name became a Russian byword for pathological stinginess -- the reporter's shorthand for his cheap editor.
- At the Almshouse for the Incurable and the Aged §93 before a Plyushkin
The pathologically miserly landowner of Gogol's Dead Souls; the son-in-law's letter invokes the name as shorthand for a stingy patron he refuses to grovel before -- a bitter irony, since grandfather is himself acting the Plyushkin.