person
Pyatigorov (Yegor Nilych)
Pyatigorov
also: Пятигоров, Егор Нилыч, Yegor Nilych
A drunken local millionaire manufacturer and 'hereditary honorary citizen' who terrorizes a reading room in a mask, exposing the hypocrisy of the town's respectable classes once unmasked and forgiven for his wealth.
Reading notes
- The Mask §112 Pyatigorov
The drunken millionaire manufacturer who terrorizes the reading room in disguise; his name evokes Pyatigorsk (a spa town) or piat' gor ('five hills'), suggesting provincial grandiosity.