Boris Matveich

Nastasya Fyodorovna Merchutkina's son-in-law in Chekhov's "The Anniversary" ("Юбилей"), mentioned once, off-stage: he is the one who, after her petition was turned away at five other places, suggested she try the influential Mr. Shipuchin -- the well-meaning piece of advice that sets the play's second farcical thread in motion.