Zakhar

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov's aged, slovenly, fiercely loyal manservant in Goncharov's novel "Oblomov", proverbial in Russian culture for his unkempt person and casual attachment to lice and bedbugs as facts of life; invoked here, alongside Alexander Chekhov, as a mock authority for the claim that lice and bedbugs are unavoidable.