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The General
the general
also: генерал
An unnamed regular patient at the hydropathic establishment who greets the porter Andrei Khrisanfych each New Year's Day and, out of habit, asks the same question about the same door every time he passes it.
Reading notes
- At Christmastime §37 a general
An unnamed regular patient at the clinic, encountered here and later in the story; he asks Andrei Khrisanfych the same question about the same door every time he passes it, and forgets the answer just as reliably.
Mentioned in 100 works (304 mentions)
Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov")
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Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia)
The Alarm Clock's Calendar
St. Peter's Day
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Speech and Strap
In the Carriage
Captions for Drawings
The Commerce Counsellor's Daughter
A Heroine of a Lady
The Liberal
The Guardian
To A. N. Kanayev, 26 March 1883. Moscow.
To N. A. Leikin, 25 June 1883. Moscow.
To N. A. Leikin, 19 September 1883. Moscow.
The Dowry
A Story Hard to Give a Title To
The Turnip
The Swedish Match
The Death of a Government Clerk
At Sea (a sailor's story)
On Christmas Night
The Chameleon
The Mask
Small Fry
Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights
Tears Invisible to the World
On Drama
To N. A. Leikin, 5–6 February 1884. Moscow.
To N. A. Leikin, 20–21 May 1884. Moscow.
Holiday Money
The Wedding with the General (a story)
Oysters
A Living Chronology
A Horsy Name
To N. A. Leikin, 29 November 1885. Moscow.
The Malingerers
The Rag
The Witch
The Exclamation Mark
A Woman's Happiness
The Malefactor
A Nightmare
On the Road
To V. V. Bilibin, 18 January 1886. Moscow.
To Ye. K. Sakharova, 28 July 1886. Babkino.
To N. A. Leikin, 23 October 1886. Moscow.
A Trivial Incident
The Boredom of Life
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On Holy Night
The Privy Councillor
The Mire
Difficult People
In the Court
The Commission
Ivanov
To Al. P. Chekhov, 31 January 1887. Moscow.
To D. V. Grigorovich, 12 February 1887. Moscow.
To the Chekhovs, 7 April 1887. Taganrog.
The Kiss
The Wedding
A Secret
In the Barn
Enemies
The Princess
Lights
To V. G. Korolenko, 9 January 1888. Moscow.
To M. V. Kiseleva, 25 March 1888. Moscow.
To A. S. Suvorin, 30 May 1888. Sumy.
To N. A. Leikin, 21 June 1888. Sumy.
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 5–6 July 1888. Sumy.
To A. S. Suvorin, 14 October 1888. Moscow.
To A. S. Suvorin, 18 October 1888. Moscow.
To A. S. Suvorin, 3 November 1888. Moscow.
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 10 November 1888. Moscow.
A Nervous Breakdown
A Sudden Horse's Death, or the Magnanimity of the Russian People!
A Dreary Story
To Al. P. Chekhov, 8 May 1889. Sumy.
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 30 September 1889. Moscow.
To V. A. Tikhonov, 7 November 1889. Moscow.
To L. N. Lenskaya, 15 November 1889. Moscow.
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 27 November 1889. Moscow.
To I. M. Kondratyev, 28 December 1889. Moscow.
The Wedding
To N. M. Lintvareva, 25 October 1891. Moscow.
To V. O. Kononovich, 19 February 1891. Moscow.
The Anniversary
Notebooks. Diaries
A Woman's Kingdom
The Black Monk
Ariadne
The House with the Mezzanine
My Life: A Provincial's Story
The Pecheneg
Sakhalin Island
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