David Solomonovich

FICTIONAL CHARACTER, a wedding guest in Chekhov's one-act "Tatyana Repina" (1889), identified only by first name and patronymic. Complains of the heat and crowding, is asked about his decoration ("the Belgian one"), and is mocked by another guest for "buzzing like a bumblebee" and standing with his back to the altar during the ceremony -- a comic figure drawn in the period's antisemitic-inflected guest-caricature register typical of Chekhov's crowd scenes; later murmurs along with the Lord's Prayer. Not otherwise identified; distinct from any other Chekhov character sharing only a given name or patronymic.