Crossword-Solution: OSIP 4 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Make haste and send for Korostelev.” Olga Ivanovna always called her husband by his surname, as she did all the men of her acquaintance; she disliked his Christian name, Osip, because it reminded her of the Osip in Gogol and the silly pun on his name.

But now she cried: “Osip, it cannot be!” “Send for him; I feel ill,” Dymov said behind the door, and she could hear him go back to the sofa and lie down.

Osip Dymov, what have you done--aie, aie, my God!” Korostelev covered his face with both hands in despair, and shook his head.

And as though to justify his doing nothing, old Osip said, addressing the woman who lay on the ground: “What is there to trouble about, old girl! The hut is insured--why are you taking on?” Semyon, addressing himself first to one person and then to another, kept describing how the fire had started.

Old Osip, speaking slowly, told them how they used to live before the emancipation; how in those very parts, where life was now so poor and so dreary, they used to hunt with harriers, greyhounds, retrievers, and when they went out as beaters the peasants were given vodka; how whole waggonloads of game used to be sent to Moscow for the young masters; how the bad were beaten with rods or sent away to the Tver estate, while the good were rewarded.