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Rasplyuev
also: Расплюев, Ivan Rasplyuev
The shabby, cheerfully feckless hanger-on and petty swindler in Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin's play Krechinsky's Wedding (1855), companion to Krechinsky; a stock Russian byword for genial cluelessness about one's own affairs.
Reading notes
- The Wall §12 Rasplyuev
Ivan Rasplyuev, the shabby, cheerfully cynical hanger-on and petty swindler from Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin's play Krechinsky's Wedding (1855) -- a stock byword for someone who knows and cares nothing about the details of an affair, exactly Bukin's boast about his own estate.