person
Velichkov
also: Величков
An invented performer whose name suggests grandeur (from velichie, 'greatness'); he ranks himself third after Pushkin and Lermontov though he cannot read and needs friends to recite his lines.
Reading notes
- Departed from Moscow: §14 Velichkov
An invented performer whose name suggests grandeur (from velichie, 'greatness'); the joke is compounded by the fact that he cannot read and needs friends to recite his self-aggrandizing lines for him.