An ecological surname. The story in imitation of A

An ecological surname. The story (in imitation of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov).


The General-Administrator of the website has a toothache. The reason was the application for registration of a new section for the publication of literary works.

The General-Administrator rinsed his mouth with vodka, cognac, applied tobacco soot, opium, turpentine, kerosene to a sore tooth, smeared his cheek with iodine, there was cotton wool soaked in alcohol in his ears, but all this either did not help or caused nausea.

The doctor has arrived. He picked into the tooth, prescribed quinine, but it didn't help either. The General-Administrator initially refused the offer to pull out a bad tooth.

The doctor asked what kind of new section for publications it was that caused the toothache.

- I forgot the surname!.. Damn... What's the surname? I remembered coming here the other day... Allow me, sir...

The General-Administrator raised his eyes to the ceiling and moved his lips.

- Such a simple surname... It's kind of ecological... Zalessky? No, not Zalessky. Wait a minute... Is it Vladimir Vladimirovich Zalessky? No, and not Vladimir Vladimirovich Zalessky. I remember the surname is ecological, and which one? it was knocked out of my head...

— Peter Zalessky?

— No way. Wait a minute... Nikita Zalessky... Evgeny Zalessky... Dmitry Zalessky...

— This is a forest surname,  but not an ecological one. Alexander Zalessky?

— No, and not Alexander Zalessky... Afanasy Zalessky... Vladimir Zalessky Translations... Mikhail Zalessky... It's all wrong!

— Well, what about it? Try to recall!

— Now. Alexander Zalessky... Yuri Zalessky... Yuri Zalessky 2...

— Stanislav Zalessky? The General-Administrator's wife asked.

— No way. Rudolf Zalessky... No, that's not it! I forgot!

The General-Administrator turned to the doctor:

— Tear a tooth! I can't stand it anymore...

The doctor pulled out a bad tooth.

The pain subsided immediately, and the General-Administrator calmed down.

Having done his job and received what he should for his work, the doctor headed home. On leaving the office, he met Ivan Yevseich, the courier of the Internet site...

The courier was standing in the corridor, staring intently at his feet, thinking about something.

Judging by the wrinkles furrowing his forehead and the expression in his eyes, his thoughts were intense, painful...

— Ivan Yevseich! — the doctor turned to him. — Can't and we, my dear, can't and we to register a section on your website for publishing literary medical works? They send me offers by e-mail, but not  the interesting...

Ivan Yevseich looked blankly at the doctor, smiled wildly somehow and, without saying a single word in response, threw up his hands and ran to the office with such speed as if a rabid dog was chasing him.

— I've recalled, Your Excellency! — he shouted joyfully, in a voice not his own, flying into the office of the general administrator. — I've remembered, God bless the doctor! "Zalessky plus We" is the name of the section! Zalessky Plus We, Your Excellency! Tell the doctor! Let him heal the tooth!

- Bite this!  - The General-Administrator said with contempt and held two kukishs (kukish - three-finger combination) up to Ivan Yevseich's face. — I don't need your ecological surname now! Bite this!


April 12, 2024 12:20


Translation from Russian into English: April 12, 2024 13:24
Владимир Владимирович Залесский “ Экологическая фамилия. Рассказ (в подражание Антону Павловичу Чехову) ”.


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MMMCDLXXVII. An ecological surname. The story (in imitation of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov). April 12, 2024.

Vladimir Zalessky Internet-bibliotheca. Интернет-библиотека Владимира Залесского. }