Short Fiction · Character
Pythagoras Pythagoravitch Tchertokoutski
A country landowner with a taste for fine carriages and borrowed calashes, whose vanity lands him in a comic rural predicament.
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Also known as Tchertokoutski
First appearance: The Calash
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A former cavalry officer and local aristocrat who hosts the general's visit but hides in his calash out of embarrassment.
Pythagoras Pythagoravitch is a gentleman of modest estate and immoderate self-regard, forever angling to appear grander than his means allow. His scheme to borrow a neighbor's calash to impress a gathering goes predictably awry, exposing the gap between his pretensions and his circumstances. His misadventure is a small, sharp portrait of provincial vanity and the absurd lengths men go to keep up appearances.
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