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General Ehrensward
Ehrensward
also: Генерал Эренсверд, Эренсверд
The stock stage villain of Chekhov's melodrama parody, a prison governor who tortures the heroine and prisoners with cartoonish relish, eating raw meat to prove his villainy.
Reading notes
- Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights §9 General Ehrensward
The stock stage villain, a prison governor; the surname echoes the real Swedish noble Ehrensvärd family, borrowed purely for its foreign, high-military color.