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Kozma Prutkov

Russian literary pseudonym

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Aleksey Tolstoy

  • Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879
    In Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy

    …under the joint pseudonym “Kozma Prutkov,” who is portrayed as a clerk in the Ministry of Finance. Other satirical verses were written under Tolstoy’s own name. Son statskogo sovetnika Popova (1878; “The Dream of Councillor Popov”) makes fun of Russian bureaucracy and political careerism.

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