Bugün öğrendim ki: Rusya'da "Plyushkin" adı, çeşitli işe yaramaz şeyleri toplayan ve biriktiren insanlara uygulanır. Kelime, serflerinden birine, bir ziyaretçinin birkaç yıl önce getirdiği bir pastayı bulmasını, kalıbı kazıyıp onlara getirmesini emreden kurgusal karakter Stepan Plyushkin'den geliyor.
[![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Boklevskij_pliuskin.jpg/220px- Boklevskij_pliuskin.jpg)](/wiki/File:Boklevskij_pliuskin.jpg) _Plyushkin_ , drawing by Pyotr (1895). **Stepan Plyushkin** (Russian: Степан Плюшкин) is a fictional character in [Nikolai Gogol](/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol "Nikolai Gogol")'s novel _[Dead Souls](/wiki/Dead_Souls "Dead Souls")_ . He is a landowner who obsessively collects and saves everything he finds, to the point that when he wants to celebrate a deal with the protagonist Chichikov, he orders one of his [serfs](/wiki/Serf "Serf") to find a cake that a visitor brought several years ago, scrape off the mold, and bring it to them. At the same time, his estate is incredibly inefficient; the cut wheat rots on the ground and any potential income is lost. His surname is from the Russian word for '[cinnamon bun](/wiki/Cinnamon_bun "Cinnamon bun")' (плюшка) or may be from '[plush](/wiki/Plush "Plush")' (плюш).