person
Khedive of Egypt (Tewfik Pasha)
the Khedive
also: хедив египетский, Khedive
The reigning Khedive of Egypt at the time of writing (Tewfik Pasha, r. 1879-1892), invoked here alongside the Shah of Persia as a stock pairing of distant foreign potentates in a joke about Alexander's readership.