Plyushkin

Stepan Plyushkin (Russian: Степан Плюшкин) is a fictional character in Nikolai Gogol's novel 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 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.

[1] His surname is derived from the Russian word for flat bun pastry (plyushka [ru]).

[1] Today in Russia, the name "Plyushkin" is semi-humorously applied to people who collect and amass various useless things, a behavior known as compulsive hoarding.