person
Delagardie
also: Делагарди
A stock melodrama hero/lover in Chekhov's parody, entangled with Stella and imprisoned by General Ehrensward for the sake of the plot.
Reading notes
- Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights §10 Delagardie
The stock romantic hero-prisoner; the surname echoes the real Franco-Swedish De la Gardie family, prominent in Baltic history, again borrowed only for aristocratic flavor.