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Plyushkin

Plyushkin (Плю́шкин) was a character in the Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls.

Today in Russia the name "Plyushkin" is semi-humorously applied to people who collect and amass various useless, broken, thrown-away things (such behaviour is typical for many old people).

Sometimes the terms "Plyushkin symptom" or "Plyushkin syndrome" are used to describe this.

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