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Kunst and Co.
also: Кунст и Ко, Kunst and Co
A fictional banking house with a German-sounding name where Pyotr Lysov works as a clerk, the humdrum commercial backdrop to his self-image as an unworldly romantic idealist.
Reading notes
- The Poison §3 banking house of Kunst and Co
A fictional banking or trading firm with a German-sounding name (Kunst, 'art' or 'craft' in German), of the kind common in Moscow's commercial world of the period; Lysov's humble clerkship there is the ironic backdrop to his self-image as an unworldly idealist.