person
Adam
also: Адам
The first man in Genesis, whose eating of the forbidden fruit is echoed in the couple's ill-fated theft of an apple.
Reading notes
- Fintiflyushki §5 Adam Rubets-Otkachalov
The first man of Genesis; the count's joke is to claim the count's own bloodline runs back to the very first humans, having their portraits inscribed with his own family name.
- Over Some Apples §7 Adam and Eve of old
The first man in Genesis, whose eating of the forbidden fruit the narrator wryly compares to the lad and girl's theft of an apple.