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Trinity Sunday

also: Троица, Troitsa, Pentecost

The Orthodox feast of Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, traditionally marked by decorating homes and churches with birch branches and fresh greenery; Chekhov contrasts the feast being kept at home with the still-wintry, snowbound Siberian landscape he is writing from.

Reading notes

A Failure of Compensation §3 Trinity Sunday
The Orthodox feast of Pentecost, fifty days after Easter; the story opens on its eve, with the household's all-night vigil already the third such service in two months of waiting for Mikhail Ilyich to be well enough to travel.

Mentioned in 13 works (18 mentions)

Captions for Drawings Juvenilia · 5 mentions

He Understood! Stories · 1 mention

§80 Pentecost

To F. O. Shekhtel, 27 May 1886. Babkino. letter · 1 mention

§6 Trinity Sunday

To Al. P. Chekhov, 20 May 1887. Babkino. letter · 1 mention

§6 Trinity Sunday

To A. S. Suvorin, 30 May 1888. Sumy. letter · 1 mention

§7 Trinity Sunday

To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 12 June 1888. Sumy. letter · 1 mention

§2 Trinity Sunday

To A. S. Suvorin, 13 February 1889. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§5 Troitsa

From Siberia Nonfiction · 1 mention

§152 Trinity Sunday

To A. P. Lensky, 21 April 1890. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§2 Troitsa

To the Chekhovs, 20 May 1890. Tomsk. letter · 2 mentions

Notebooks. Diaries Notebooks · 1 mention

§4162 Trinity Sunday

A Failure of Compensation Stories · 1 mention

§3 Trinity Sunday

The Cherry Orchard Plays · 1 mention

§827 Trinity Sunday