← back to the glossary

person

Ivan Abramych Zhmukhin

Zhmukhin

also: Жмухин, Иван Абрамыч, the Pecheneg

A retired Cossack officer, once a sergeant serving in the Caucasus, now an old, ailing landowner on a remote steppe farmstead nicknamed "the Pecheneg's farmstead" after him. Long-winded, self-satisfied, and casually cruel to his wife and sons even as he muses on becoming a gentler man in old age; protagonist of "The Pecheneg."

Mentioned in 2 works (25 mentions)

Twenty-Six (Excerpts from a Diary) Stories · 1 mention
The Pecheneg Stories · 24 mentions

Support this project

Free to read here. Buy the ebook to support the work.

Ebook coming soon

The ebook edition in this language is on its way.(English)