1. (From Russian fairy tale.) One who seems lazy and rather simple, but, in fact, is intelligent and resourceful and can act energetically when necessary.

2. (One of the main characters of Russian epic poems, an embodiment of an ideal hero-warrior.) Now used jokingly of men possessing great physical strength.

3. One who betrays under the semblance of friendship.

4. (A prophetess in Greek legend whose predictions no one believed although they were invariably correct.) Used allusively to persons whose gloomy warnings concerning social or political future are left unheeded.

5. A narrow-minded, silly and avaricious landowner in Nicolay Gogol’s novel “Dead souls”.

6. (Rudyard Kipling’s story.) Used to describe willful and unpredictable persons who tend to act independently of the people they work or study with, especially those who do not attend any parties or other gatherings arranged by their colleagues.

7. (From a medieval legend.) One restlessly moving from place to place or from one job to another: a wanderer.

8. (From Russian folk tales.) Anyone notorious for cunning.

9. (Samuel Richardson, “Clarissa Harlowe”.) A well-mannered libertine conspicuous for his amorous adventures.

10. (From Russian tale “The Princess who never smiled”.) Demure, modes young girls; persons who are in a serious mood.