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Iona (Khlopov's story)
Iona
also: Иона
The village sexton (dyachok) hero of the short story Nikolai Khlopov submitted to Chekhov for critique; in the story he tends two desyatinas of land and is (implausibly, per Chekhov's critique) transferred between posts by a church warden. Distinct from Iona Potapov, the cabman of Chekhov's own story "Toska".