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Maiden-name lapse joke
Maiden name custom
The 19th-century Russian custom by which a woman's maiden surname lapsed the instant she married and took her husband's name, the small factual hinge of the "witness Pozharova" joke in "Three Drawings."
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- Captions for Drawings §185 witness Pozharova
The joke turns on a woman's maiden surname (Pozharova) lapsing the instant she marries and takes her husband's name -- a small but real point of 19th-century Russian legal/social naming custom.
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