Ilyitch

Because you don’t have time to waste on Anna Karenina, anyway, because Ivan Ilyitch is a much more efficient way to read Tolstoy.

Matthew Yglesias » Eternal Recurrence 2010

Despite her Bolshie politics and love of all things Russian—the two swans that ruled the lake on the grounds of her Ridgefield, Connecticut, estate were named Vladimir Ilyitch and Krupskaya—she was cagey about her party affiliations.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Despite her Bolshie politics and love of all things Russian—the two swans that ruled the lake on the grounds of her Ridgefield, Connecticut, estate were named Vladimir Ilyitch and Krupskaya—she was cagey about her party affiliations.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Ilyitch, that Mihail Alexandritch is really not a dangerous man?

A Month in the Country 2006

Ignaty Ilyitch; I believe you used the word 'harmless.' ...

A Month in the Country 2006

Ilyitch, I believe I too have had opportunities of discovering your character.

A Month in the Country 2006

Ilyitch, had taken the pistols, loaded them before him, written a letter, put it in his pocket, etc.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

Ilyitch knew for certain that he would meet some of Mihail

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

Ilyitch, so that his story came, not as his own surmise and theory, but as the direct conformation by a witness, of the theory held by all, as to the identity of the criminal (a theory he had in the bottom of his heart refused to believe till that moment).

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

Pyotr Ilyitch politely but insistently begged her to inform her lady that an official, living in the town, called Perhotin, had called on particular business, and that if it were not of the greatest importance he would not have ventured to come.

The Brothers Karamazov 2003