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Baroness von Fintikh
also: баронесса фон Финтих
The invented noble maiden title the aunt in "Summer Cottagers" (1885) claims as her birthright, a comic marker of provincial pretension undercut by her preoccupation with her tapeworm and stomach pains.
Reading notes
- Summer Cottagers §13 Baroness von Fintikh
A comic pretension: the aunt's claimed noble birth (a fabricated Germanic title, "Fintikh" suggesting a fussy, precious nonentity) is undercut by her chief conversational subject being her tapeworm and stomach pains -- a stock Chekhovian jab at self-important provincial gentry.