person
Count Tulupov
Tulupov
also: граф Тулупов, le comte Tulupov
A wealthy, idle Russian count who impulsively hires a German mining engineer to develop coal on his estate, then abandons the scheme -- and the engineer -- without warning.
Reading notes
- Russian Coal §3 le comte
Count Tulupov -- Chekhov's comic figure of the idle, geographically confused Russian landowner who improvises a coal-mining scheme out of boredom on a Rhine steamer.