person
Efros
also: Эфрос
An acquaintance named in the closing greetings alongside Nos and Yasha; not otherwise identified.
Reading notes
- To M. P. Chekhova, 11–12 March 1887. Petersburg. §8 Efros
An acquaintance named in the closing greetings; not otherwise identified.
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 13 September 1887. Moscow. §7 Efros came, nose and all, in a new little hat
An acquaintance named elsewhere in Chekhov's letters only by surname; "nose and all" (с носом) plays on the idiom "остаться с носом," to be left empty-handed or duped, turning a stock phrase into a mock-literal image.