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Mikhail Vasilyevich Platonov

Platonov

also: Mikhail Vasilyich, Platoshka

The play's central figure: a disillusioned, magnetic provincial schoolteacher who once seemed destined for greatness and now drifts among the women of the district, unable to act on his own ideals. Chekhov's earliest, unpolished study of the 'superfluous man.'

Mentioned in 3 works (220 mentions)

Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov") Plays · 218 mentions
On March Stories · 1 mention
To G. M. Chekhov, 17 October 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

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