person
Yegor Nikiforovich
also: Егор Никифорович, Егорий, Yegory, Егор Л-в, Yegor L---
The wealthy host of the wedding party where the story takes place, a jovial provincial grandee who invites Ivan Nikitich in for a drink and calls him 'the newspaperman' in front of his guests.
Reading notes
- The Correspondent §2 Yegory
The wedding's host, addressed here by the folksy diminutive of his name -- elsewhere called Yegor Nikiforovich, or simply Yegor L---, the town's rich man and grandee whose daughter is being married off.