person
Pamva Berynda
also: Памва Берында
17th-century Ukrainian lexicographer and printer, compiler of an early Church Slavonic dictionary; his archaic, half-legendary name is dropped into the list of poets 'struck out' by Death in July as a comic anachronism among genuinely recent losses.
Reading notes
- On June and July §30 Pamva Berynda
A 17th-century Ukrainian lexicographer, long dead by Chekhov's time; his archaic name dropped absurdly into a list of contemporary poets' deaths is a comic anachronism, mocking the very idea of a neat seasonal tally of literary losses.