person
Pokhlebin
also: Похлебин
An acquaintance of Ya. A. Korneev's whom Chekhov mocks in passing, describing him as sporting side-whiskers and a head shaped like a radish, tail end up; not otherwise identified in the corpus.
Reading notes
- To the Chekhov Family, 25 April 1887. Cherkassk. §6 a certain Pokhlebin sends his regards -- a fellow with side-whiskers and a head shaped like a radish, tail end up
A passing joke at the expense of an acquaintance of Ya. A. Korneev's, not otherwise identified in the corpus. Chekhov's mocking physical caricature (a head like an upended radish) is preserved as characteristic of the unguarded, teasing register of his private family letters, not softened in translation.