Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyrev (Homeless)

Possible historical figures:

• Demyan Bedny (pen name meaning “the poor”): wrote anti-religious texts (real name: Eflim Alexandrovich Pridvorov 1883-1945)
• Alexander Ilych Bezimensky (pen name meaning “the nameless”): poet who wrote a parody of Bulgakov’s Days of the Turbins
• Ivanushka Durashok (“Ivan the fool”): famous (clumsy) Russian folk character