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Skotinin

The boorish, pig-obsessed landowner of Fonvizin's The Minor (his name derives from 'skot,' cattle/beast); invoked as shorthand for coarse, brutish provincial gentry.

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Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov") Plays · 1 mention

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