person
Dobchebobchinsky (joke compound)
Dobchebobchinsky
also: Николай и Иоанн Добчебобчинские, Nikolai and Ioann Dobchebobchinsky
A comic compound surname Chekhov invents for two real Taganrog financier-officials, Nikolai and Ioann, by fusing their names with Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, the inseparable gossiping pair from Gogol's The Government Inspector.
Reading notes
- To L. A. Kamburova, 17 September 1880. Moscow. §3 Nikolai and Ioann Dobchebobchinsky
A joke compound surname fusing two real Taganrog acquaintances with Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky, the inseparable pair of town gossips in Gogol's play The Government Inspector (1836).