person
Fyodor Andreich Lyubostyazhaev
Lyubostyazhaev
also: Любостяжаев
One of the twenty banqueters; ordinarily meek and deferential, he is swept up in the table's drunken liberal talk and mocks the absent chief as a "beanpole." His surname (from lyubostyazhanie, "love of gain") is a satirical Chekhovian coinage.
Reading notes
- A Story Hard to Give a Title To §1 Lyubostyazhaev (Fyodor Andreich)
One of the twenty diners at the banquet; his surname derives from the Russian for "love of gain," a satirical touch typical of Chekhov's early comic names.