shamsharev

Updated: May 31, 2025

On the other hand, some aver that it was over a woman that the pair fell out over a woman who, to quote the phrase then current among the staff of the Customs Department, was "as fresh and as strong as the pulp of a turnip," and that night-birds were hired to assault our hero in a dark alley, and that the scheme miscarried, and that in any case both Chichikov and his friend had been deceived, seeing that the person to whom the lady had really accorded her favours was a certain staff-captain named Shamsharev.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls