person
Count Fikin
also: граф Фикин
A count invoked by the name-dropping wife as supposedly desperate to summon her husband ('dig him out of the ground if you must') -- part of her inflated account of her husband's social importance, punctured when he turns out to be a barber.
Reading notes
- In the Railway Carriage §31 Count Fikin's
An invented aristocratic name in the wife's account, meant to signal her husband's importance to the powerful -- part of the buildup before the final vignette's punchline reveals him as a barber.