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Olga Semyonovna Plemyannikova
Olenka
also: Olga Semyonovna, the darling, душечка
The protagonist of 'The Darling': a gentle, affectionate woman who cannot hold an opinion of her own, and who in turn takes on completely the views and enthusiasms of each man -- and finally the child -- she attaches herself to.
Reading notes
- The Darling §1 THE DARLING
Dushechka is a Russian folk endearment, close kin to "little soul" (dusha), that women especially use for someone they find sweetly lovable; the translation renders it identically as "darling" everywhere it recurs in the story.
- The Darling §2 Olenka
The story's protagonist, Olga Semyonovna Plemyannikova ('Olenka' is an affectionate diminutive of Olga); across the story she takes on, wholesale, the opinions and enthusiasms of whichever man she currently loves.
Mentioned in 6 works (43 mentions)
Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov")
Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia)
To M. P. Chekhova, 3 September 1884. Voskresensk.
A First-Class Passenger
Мужики
The Darling
- §1 the darling
- §2 Olenka
- §5 Olenka
- §6 Olga Semyonovna
- §10 Olenka
- §19 the darling
- §20 Olenka
- §24 Olenka
- §27 Olenka
- §28 Olenka
- §29 Olga Semyonovna
- §30 Olenka
- §31 Olga Semyonovna
- §32 Olenka
- §33 Olenka
- §35 Olenka
- §36 Olenka
- §41 Olenka
- §42 Olenka
- §47 Olenka
- §51 Olenka
- §56 Olenka
- §57 Olenka
- §58 Olenka
- §59 Olenka
- §62 Olenka
- §65 Olenka
- §67 Olenka
- §68 Olenka
- §69 Olenka
- §70 Olenka
- §75 Olenka
- §76 Olenka
- §79 Olenka
- §81 Olenka
- §87 Olga Semyonovna
- §92 Olenka