tracking down a reference

[Anne Fisher]

Hello Seelangers,
In Chapter 28 of The Little Golden Calf, Ilf and Petrov mention "a
feuilleton-writer in a long black coat with a black velvet collar" (фельетонист
в пальто с черным бархатным воротником) who seems to be seeing off some
fellow journalists en route to the joining of the rails. Since Ilf and
Petrov often thinly disguise their contemporaries in their work, I wonder
whether this might be a reference to a particular feuilleton-writer who
happened to sport a similar coat in 1930?

If any of you happen to recognize this coat/writer, I would be grateful for
the lead.

Thank you,

Annie

-- 
Anne O. Fisher, Ph.D.
Russian Interpreter and Translator
anne.o.fisher at gmail.com
440-986-0175

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