person
Nastasya Timofeevna
also: Настасья Тимофеевна, maman
Wife of Zhigalov and mother of the bride Dashenka; manages the wedding supper's logistics, defends the dowry against Aplombov's complaints, and turns on her nephew Nyunin once the hired "general" scheme collapses, in Chekhov's "The Wedding" (1889).
Reading notes
- The Wedding §111 a thousand rubles in hard cash
Nastasya Timofeevna's itemized dowry -- a thousand rubles cash, three fur coats (salopy), bedding, and all the furniture -- is presented as a matter of open, unembarrassed pride and negotiation, consistent with the period's arranged-marriage economy among minor officials and tradespeople; the figure is far more modest than the aristocratic dowries in Chekhov's earlier "Wedding, with a General" sketch, underlining the Zhigalovs' more constrained means.
Mentioned in 1 work (28 mentions)
The Wedding
- §5 Nastasya Timofeevna
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- §111 Nastasya Timofeevna
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- §264 Nastasya Timofeevna