person
Struzhkin
also: Стружкин
A comic byline/persona of the Moscow humor-magazine world Chekhov moved in during the early 1880s, invoked here as a figure left with no one to provoke after a colleague's departure from \emph{Zritel}.
Reading notes
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 January 1883. Moscow. §12 Struzhkin
A recurring comic byline/persona associated with the humor-magazine world Chekhov moved in at this period; Anton's joke turns on the magazine's staff having no one lively left to provoke since its "secretary-girl" departed.
- To Al. P. Chekhov and A. I. Khrushcheva-Sokolnikova, 3–6 February 1883. Moscow. §10 Struzhkin
A comic figure or local wit credited with the pun on "line" (строчечка) and "kopek" (копеечка) -- likely a stock joking name rather than a specific identifiable person, in the vein of Chekhov's other invented comic authorities.