animal
Zhuk
also: Жук
The "personable" (симпатичный) household dog at the Lintvaryov estate at Luka, one of the pack -- with Barbos, Pulka, Rozka, and Tsenzura -- that habitually nips at the pigs' ears and pushes into the family's dining room.
Reading notes
- To K. S. Barantsevich, 4 July 1888. Sumy. §4 likeable Zhuk winks at you with his one good eye
Zhuk, another of the Lintvaryov household's dogs at Luka (see, "симпатичный Жук" / "the personable Zhuk"). Like Barbos, Zhuk is a dog given a comic human gesture (a wink), not a person; care should be taken not to conflate this Zhuk with any unrelated same-named animal or figure elsewhere in the corpus (e.g. the fictional "Vanka Zhukov" or the impresario character "Zhukov" in other works) -- this Zhuk is specifically the Lintvaryov estate dog.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 5–6 July 1888. Sumy. §9 Zhuk
One of the Lintvaryov household's dogs at Luka; see also the fuller comic roll-call of the estate's dogs (Zhuk, Barbos, Pulka, Rozka, Tsenzura) in the nearby letter.