person
Alexander Ivanovich Koshelev
Koshelev
also: А. И. Кошелев
Public figure known successively as tax-farmer/landowner, Slavophile, and finally Westernizer, quoted here for a pun on "Westernizers" (zapadniki) setting "snares" (zapadni).
Reading notes
- Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) §1748 they are forever setting western snares
Puns on the near-identity in Russian of "zapadniki" (Westernizers) and "zapadni" (snares/traps), turning a political-camp label into a joke about intrigue.