person
Pyotr Tsitovich
Tsitovich
also: Цитович
Pyotr Tsitovich, a conservative Russian law professor and polemical journalist, mocked here with the joke that he has only just "learned to write."
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §209 Tsitovich
Pyotr Tsitovich, a conservative Russian law professor and combative polemical journalist; the calendar's joke is that he has only now "learned to write."
- В книжном магазине "нового времени" §6 Tsitovich
Pyotr Tsitovich, a conservative Russian law professor and polemical journalist frequently lampooned by Chekhov and his contemporaries; here cast as the "socius" (fellow/partner) of the invented Jesuit Tarakanchio.
- In Winkler's Museum §5 the Jesuit Tsitovich
Pyotr Tsitovich, a real conservative law professor and polemical journalist of the period, mockingly rebranded here as a scheming "Jesuit" -- a stock Russian shorthand for jargon-laden, self-serving casuistry.