person
Emile Poupe
also: Эмиль Пуп
A fictitious 'friend' Chekhov invents as a comic dedicatee for a story sent to The Dragonfly, part of a running private joke with Sergeenko rather than a real person.
Reading notes
- To P. A. Sergeyenko, 17 December 1884. Moscow. §5 Emile Poupe
A fictitious dedicatee Chekhov invents as a running joke -- there was no real 'friend Emile Poupe recently on trial'; the mock dedication is part of the story's comic apparatus.