person
Nogtev
also: Fyodor Panteleich, Ногтев, Федор Пантелеич
A fashionable, untalented young painter -- all gold-palette charms and towering heels -- who courts Lelya so timidly that his eventual request, when it finally comes, turns out to be for her to sit as his model, not to marry him.
Reading notes
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 October 1887. Moscow. §14 Fyodor Panteleich
A comic reference point Chekhov uses for Zhenka Werner's look and manner -- the vain, fashionable but talentless painter-suitor from Chekhov's own story "Skvernaya istoriya."