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Grokholsky

also: Михель, Michel, Grisha, Гроxольский

A rich, sentimental young landowner who buys another man's wife outright with cash and dies by inches of his own sugary self-pity ever after; the story's satirical portrait of gentry sensibility with no backbone.

Reading notes

Mentioned in 13 works (147 mentions)

Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov") Plays · 19 mentions
Live Merchandise Stories · 107 mentions
The Lawyer Mother-in-Law Stories · 6 mentions
Tears Invisible to the World Stories · 1 mention
At the Baths Stories · 3 mentions
Drowsy Stupor Stories · 1 mention
To M. M. Dyukovsky, February 1886. Moscow. letter · 2 mentions
The Commission Stories · 1 mention
Ivanov Plays · 1 mention
To M. P. Chekhova, 14 July 1888. Feodosia. letter · 1 mention
Notebooks. Diaries Notebooks · 1 mention
The Spouse Stories · 3 mentions
The Seagull Plays · 1 mention

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