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Yegor
also: Егор
The tavern-keeper's brother, a former soldier who spends his days drinking at the tavern and is hired to write a letter for an illiterate peasant couple; instead of their plain words he produces a garbled parade of military-bureaucratic bombast.
Reading notes
- At Christmastime §3 Yegor
A former soldier and the tavern-keeper's brother, hired to write letters for pay; his elaborate bureaucratic style is meant to impress, though it leaves no room for what his clients actually want said.