The portrait of the anonymous character of the short story <i> The Hamlet of the Shchigry District </i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Turgenev" class="extiw" title="w:Ivan Turgenev">Ivan Turgenev</a> (from the collection <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sportsman%27s_Sketches" class="extiw" title="w:A Sportsman's Sketches">A Sportsman's Sketches</a></i>).
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<td style="padding:0 10px;">‘Let me at least know,’ I asked, ‘with whom I have had the pleasure...’
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</p><p>‘No, for mercy’s sake!’ he cut me short, ‘don’t inquire my name either of me or of others. Let me remain to you an unknown being, crushed by fate, Vassily Vassilyevitch. Besides, as an unoriginal person, I don’t deserve an individual name... But if you really want to give me some title, call me... call me the Hamlet of the Shtchigri district. There are many such Hamlets in every district, but perhaps you haven’t come across others... After which, good-bye.’ 
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</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0"><p style="font-size:smaller; line-height:1em; text-align:right; float:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Ivan Turgenev. <i>The Peasant Proprietor Ovsyanikov</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/turgenev/ivan/t93s/chapter20.html#chapter20">(translation by Constance Garnett).</a></cite></p>
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<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Turgenev" class="extiw" title="en:Ivan Turgenev">Ivan Turgenev</a> (1818–1883)</b></div>
before 1880 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div> (circa 1850 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div><b>(?)</b>)
Scanned from: <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">Пищулин Ю.П. (1988)      <i> Иван Сергеевич Тургенев. Жизнь. Искусство. Время</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Moscow" class="extiw" title="w:en:Moscow"><span title="capital and most populous city of Russia">Moscow</span></a>:  Советская Россия, p. 83  <small></small></cite>