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Ivan Prokhorych Gauptvakhtov
Gauptvakhtov
also: Иван Прохорыч Гауптвахтов
A once-dashing lieutenant now a plump, paralysis-stricken country landowner, whose comic inability to recall the name of a piece of sheet music drives this squib.
Reading notes
- Forgotten!! §1 Ivan Prokhorych Gauptvakhtov
The story's blustering, memory-failing hero: a once-dashing lieutenant now a paralysis-stricken country landowner, comically undone by a forgotten piece of sheet music.