1. Joseph Aisenberg sends thanks to Victor Fet:

Thank you very much, this was helpful (as was Sklyarenko's comments, I only asked questions because these word strings you follow always go so far over my head that I'm trying to get some kind of handle on what method of attack is about).

2. And Eric Naiman chimes in:

The name Luzhin comes from the Latin verb meaning "to play" (Illusion,
Allusion, Ludic) Not in Dostoevsky, but in Nabokov. Etymologically the
names are the equivalent of homonyms.
But of course, this is a simplification. Nabokov's Luzhin's name ALSO
has the etymology of that of Dostoevsky's character. And part of that
"etymology" is the idea of being a literary character.

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