person
Yevtikhy Kuzmich Kuporosov
Kuporosov
also: Евтихий Кузьмич Купоросов
The family's lodger, regarded as the household's most cultured member despite reading a dance manual and eating meat on fast days; the mother asks him to whip Vanya in her place.
Reading notes
- A Classicist's Misfortune §17 Yevtikhy Kuzmich Kuporosov
The family's lodger, regarded in the household as its most cultured member; his surname derives from kuporos ("vitriol"/"copperas"), a sourly comic name for a self-important pedant.