animal
Fyodor Timofeich (Suvorin's dog)
Fyodor Timofeich
also: Федор Тимофеич
A real dog kept by the Suvorin household in Petersburg in 1888, one of three dogs Chekhov describes there during his March 1888 stay. Shares its name with both an earlier Chekhov-family dog/cat in Moscow (1885) and the elderly performing cat Fyodor Timofeyich in Chekhov's story "Kashtanka" -- three distinct namesakes, none identical.
Reading notes
- To M. P. Chekhov, 16 March 1888. Petersburg. §11 The Suvorins have one dog named Fyodor Timofeich, another Auntie, and a third Ivan Ivanych
These are three REAL dogs kept by the Suvorin household in Petersburg in 1888, described here from life. They are namesakes only of, and NOT identical to, the fictional animal characters in Chekhov's story "Kashtanka" (the dog renamed "Auntie"/Тетка;, the performing goose) or the earlier real Moscow dog/cat from 1885. See also and for the other two Suvorin dogs named in this same sentence.