figure
Shishmachevsky
also: Шишмачевский
The unseen painter credited, with mock reverence, for the garish oil portrait of a nude woman that hangs in the new flat furnished for Nadya and Andrei Andreich; not otherwise identified, and possibly one of Chekhov's characteristically absurd invented surnames for an offstage figure.
Reading notes
- The Bride §78 Shishmachevsky
The unseen painter credited, with mock reverence, for the oil portrait of a nude woman with a broken vase that hangs in the new flat; not otherwise identified, and possibly one of Chekhov's characteristically absurd invented names for an offstage figure.