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Volodya Vlasin
Volodya
also: Володя, Володя Власин
A neighbor boy whose name-day falls the next day; Tolkachov is obliged to buy him a bicycle. Corresponds to Volodya Vlasin, the same errand-list neighbor child in Chekhov's close source story "One of Many" (1887).
Reading notes
- A Tragedian in Spite of Himself §23 Volodya Vlasin's name-day
A neighbor boy's name-day (the feast day of his patron saint, celebrated in Russia much as a birthday is elsewhere) obliges Tolkachov to buy him a bicycle -- one more item folded into the same overstuffed errand list. Corresponds to Volodya Vlasin, the identical name-day neighbor child in "One of Many" (1887).