person
Anuchin
also: Анучин
Fictional old landowner and Nastya's godfather in the play "The Wood Demon"; a cheerful, work-shy, sociable figure who has settled into carefree old age after a moment of public self-humbling at a zemstvo assembly.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 18 October 1888. Moscow. §4 In Anuchin I'll keep the surname and "all the rest,"
FICTIONAL CHARACTER -- the cheerful, work-shy old landowner of the play, identified two sections later (\S9) as Nastya's godfather. Not to be confused with any real person of this name; unattested elsewhere in the corpus.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 18 October 1888. Moscow. §9 Anuchin, an old man.
Continues the fictional Anuchin's character sketch begun at \S4; this section reveals he is Nastya's godfather, the referent implicit but unnamed in \S4's "this godfather."