images of merchants

[Russell Valentino]

Chichikov is a capitalist, his tovar the dusha.
"Uncle" Petr Ivanych, in Goncharov's Ordinary Story, owns a factory and delo
delaet; in then end, his nephew has seen the light.
Shtolz...
Lopukhov in C's What Is To be Done? comes back to Russia as an American
businessman. Vera Pavolvna's sewing cooperative: an alternative business.
The business of money lending in Dostoevsky. Luzhin is first and foremost a
businessman (also a lawyer). Razumikhin wants to open a publishing firm (and
presumably does). Grushenka is kept by a merchant.
Tolstoy's Levin and the business of farming.
Chekhov's Steppe: a merchant caravan.

Quoting Andrew Kaufman <adk59 at HOTMAIL.COM>:

> Can anybody recommend some excellent stories, plays or novels from Russian
> literature that  explicitly represent images of capitalists, merchants, or
> people engaged in business affairs?>
>
> Andy Kaufman, Ph.D.

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