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Dobryak (The Good Fellow)
The Good Fellow
also: "Добряка"
A fictional or minor periodical the calendar addresses a mock complaint-letter to, in the recurring bit parodying magazine reader-correspondence columns.
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §133 The Good Fellow
The addressee of one of the calendar's mock reader-letters, part of its running parody of magazines' published-replies-to-correspondents columns.
- The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes §42 his Dobryak
An invented minor publication attributed to Meshchersky within the joke, mocking the prince's prolific but (in Chekhov's view) trivial journalistic output.