Almost all the peasants who had belonged to Korobochka had nicknames or other appendices. Pliushkin’s list was markedly laconic in style: very often only the initial part of names and patronymics were written out and followed by two dots. Sobakevich’s register was striking in its extraordinary fullness and detail, not omitting a single quality of the peasants: one was said to be “a good carpenter,” another had the comment “understands his job and never touches liquor.”
