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Apel
also: Апель, Апелем
One of the dogs kept by the Leikin household in St. Petersburg, regularly named alongside Rogulka in Chekhov's closing greetings to Leikin's family across several letters of 1886.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 3 February 1886. Moscow. §17 Apel and Rogulka
Two of the dogs kept by the Leikin household in St. Petersburg, regularly named in Chekhov's closing greetings to Leikin's family across several letters of this period.
- To N. A. Leikin, 14 May 1887. Taganrog. §5 Apel and his (...) Rogulka
Apel and Rogulka were dogs kept at Leikin's Petersburg estate; Chekhov had evidently been promised a puppy from their litter and jokes about it in several 1886-87 letters to Leikin.