person
Blinchikov
also: Блинчиков, the telegraph clerk
A telegraph clerk and wedding guest whose enthusiastic small talk about electric lighting and dowries touches off the story's first comic quarrel; his surname (from блинчик, "little pancake") marks him as a diminished, faintly ridiculous figure.
Reading notes
- Marriage for Convenience (a novel in two parts) §67 Mr. Blinchikov
The telegraph clerk's surname, only given late in the story (from блинчик, "little pancake"), a diminishing, faintly ridiculous name typical of Chekhov's comic minor characters.