institution
Funk and Co.
also: Функ и КN, Функ и Ко, Funk and CN
The steel foundry where Ivan Karlych works as senior foreman, drawing a respectable 750 rubles a year -- a salary he repeatedly cites as proof of the social rise he gave his wife.
Reading notes
- The Good German §1 Funk and Co. steel foundry
A fictional Moscow-area steel works with a Germanic name, of the kind common in 1880s Russian industry; foreign, especially German, surnames on manufacturing firms signaled modern engineering expertise to a Russian readership, and gave Chekhov a ready-made pretext for a Russian-born ethnic-German foreman.