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Semyon Ivanovich
also: Сеня, Senya, М. г. Семен Иванович
The unnamed first-guild Moscow merchant whose torn pocket scraps make up the sketch, addressed throughout as "Semyon Ivanovich" or the diminutive "Senya" -- evidently a hard-drinking brawler who has beaten an actor and is being dunned, threatened, and bled by half of Nizhny Novgorod.
Reading notes
- A Fairground "Total" §45 Senya
The affectionate diminutive of Semyon, confirming that the merchant addressed formally as "Semyon Ivanovich" throughout the sketch is the same "Senya" of this final, more intimate note.