animal
Magar
also: осел Магар
A donkey brought back from Turkey by one of the battery commanders, who trudges pensively at the rear of the marching brigade's baggage train, closing the long descriptive procession of loc 63 on a note of small, ordinary comedy.
Reading notes
- The Kiss §63 осел Магар
The donkey Magar, brought back from Turkey (very likely a memento of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, the same conflict evoked by the Plevna reference in loc 7), closes the brigade's long descriptive procession on a note of small, ordinary comedy -- one of Chekhov's characteristic incidental details that grounds a scene in specific, unglamorous reality.