Who did lushkoff ? what did his pretend to be
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Lushkoff was a beggar of circumstances. He was kicked out of the choir for being drunk. He pretended to be a schoolteacher to earn some money.
Lushkoff was a poor beggar who lived his life on alms given by sympathisers. One day when an advocate, Sergei meets him, he does not offer him alms but offers him work at his home - that of cutting wood.
He accepts it knowing fully well that he can't do it due to being physically weak.
He pretends to cut the wood whereas, it was Olga, Sergei's maid, who used to cut it on Lushkoff's behalf yet Sergei did not know the truth for long.
After two years, when Sergei meets him one day at a theater ticket window then Lushkoff tells him about the story and also that he was not a beggar anymore.
That act of kindness from Olga had changed him forever and now he was working as a notary for thirty-five roubles a month.