Zalessky

A wealthy Polish exile ("pan Zalessky") keeping a tavern/inn in Ishim, encountered by Chekhov on the road to Tomsk. Chekhov describes him as having "turned into a fist-hard money-grubber to the marrow of his bones" who "fleeces everyone" yet still shows the gentleman "in his manners, at his table, in everything"; he gave Chekhov an excellent dinner for a ruble and a room to sleep in. Part of the 1864 Polish exile wave to Siberia; his unnamed daughter, born in Ishim, is compared to "Sasha Kiseleva." Chekhov recalls his hospitality favorably again later in the same letter (\S24: "Not since squire Zalessky have I dined so well").