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Khavronya Ivanovna
also: Хавронья Ивановна
The circus performer's black pig, one of Auntie's fellow performing animals in Chekhov's "Kashtanka" (1887); introduced in "Wonders in a Sieve" (Chapter Five) being summoned in for the "Egyptian pyramid" trick with the goose Ivan Ivanych and the cat Fyodor Timofeyich, her good-natured unconcern with Auntie's growling teaching Auntie that not every stranger in the household is a threat.
Reading notes
- Kashtanka §61 Khavronya Ivanovna
The circus performer's black pig, the third of the trained animals; her placid good nature toward Kashtanka's growling teaches Kashtanka that not every stranger in the household is a threat.