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Balalaika

balalaika

also: балалайка

A triangular-bodied, three-stringed Russian folk instrument; Chekhov invokes it as a stock image for a voice that plays skillfully and seductively on an audience's nerves.

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Mentioned in 10 works (11 mentions)

Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) Juvenilia · 1 mention
To Al. P. Chekhov, February 1883. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
A Case from Judicial Practice Stories · 1 mention
An Act of Lawlessness Stories · 2 mentions
Thieves Stories · 1 mention
To A. S. Suvorin, 6 February 1889. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
To A. S. Suvorin, 13 February 1889. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
To A. S. Suvorin, 14 February 1889. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
The Teacher of Literature Stories · 1 mention
Three Years Stories · 1 mention

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