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Fyodor Timofeyich
also: Федор Тимофеич
The elderly, gloomy cat belonging to the circus performer in Chekhov's "Kashtanka," one of Auntie's fellow performing animals; in the closing chapter he is uneasy through the night of Ivan Ivanych's death, coming to Auntie for the first time in their acquaintance and pressing against their master's legs in shared, uncomprehending grief.
Reading notes
- Kashtanka §38 Fyodor Timofeyich
The elderly, disdainful cat among the circus performer's trained animals, later addressed affectionately as "Uncle"; his weary indifference to everything is the story's running counterpoint to Kashtanka's eagerness.
- To the Chekhovs, 10 March 1887. Petersburg. §3 Fyodor Timofeich
The Chekhov household's cat, whose name Chekhov later gave to the elderly circus cat in his 1887 story "Kashtanka"; here the joke runs the other way, opening the letter by comparing his own miserable train journey unfavorably to the cat's nocturnal freedom over the rooftops.
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