Montehomo, the Hawk's Claw, Chief of the Ever Victorious

[Dan Newton]

Spelled "Meyn Ried" in the translation, he's mentioned at the beginning 
of Nabokov's story "Russian Spoken Here."

Vladimir Shatsev wrote:

> Dear Seelangers,
>
> I am looking for the title of  a  presumably very well known novel of  
> Thomas Mayne Reid . He was enormously popular in Russia . Volodya and 
> his friend Checvetsin in Chekhov's  short story " The Boys"(1897) are 
> very fond of this writer.

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