The main character's mother rejected the names Mokiya, Sossiya, Khozdazat, Triphiliy, Dula, and Vakhtisiy before finally settling on his name.
The main character's mother rejected the names Mokiya, Sossiya, Khozdazat, Triphiliy, Dula, and Vakhtisiy before finally settling on his name. That character scrimps and saves until after two or three months, he finally has the eighty rubles necessary to go shopping with Petrovitch and purchase the title object. However, robbers steal it after he attends a party thrown by his superior. The main character is advised to go not to the police but to a "prominent personage" whose identity is unknown, and after his plea for help is rejected, Akakiy Akakievitch gets sick and dies. FTP, identify this short story by Nikolai Gogol about an expensive piece of outerwear.
The main character's mother rejected the names Mokiya, Sossiya, Khozdazat, Triphiliy, Dula, and Vakhtisiy before finally settling on his name.
The {Overcoat} or {Shinel} (grudgingly accept The {Cloak})