person
Gury Petrovich Gryzhev
Gryzhev
also: Гурий Петрович Грыжев, Иван Петрович
An eminent local merchant who encourages Ivan Nikitich to keep writing and is later listed as a two-thousand-ruble donor in Ivan Nikitich's draft article.
Reading notes
- The Correspondent §48 Gryzhev
A prosperous local merchant who half-jokingly urges Ivan Nikitich to write about him -- later invented, under a slightly different patronymic, as the lead donor in Ivan Nikitich's fabricated newspaper piece.
- The Correspondent §148 Gury Petrovich Gryzhev
The name Ivan Nikitich gives Gryzhev in his fabricated donors' list -- note the patronymic (Petrovich) does not match how Gryzhev addressed him earlier (as 'Ivan Petrovich'), a small continuity slip typical of a piece dashed off on demand.