person
Major Shchelkolobov
Shchelkolobov
also: майор Щелколобов, Apollosha, Аполлоша
A blustering, bald landowning major with a thousand desyatinas of land, humiliated by his young wife's overheard complaints and driven, in comic overreaction, to plan wife-beating and then nearly drown boating with her.
Reading notes
- If You Chase Two Hares, You Won't Catch Either §1 Major Shchelkolobov
The blustering, bald-headed landowner-major at the center of the story; his surname (roughly "flick-forehead") is a comic coinage, fitting Chekhov's habit of naming farcical figures for their absurdity.