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Olga Ilyinskaya
Olga
also: Ольга
The heroine of Goncharov's novel "Oblomov", who briefly draws Oblomov out of his torpor and later marries Stolz; Chekhov dismisses her here as "invented and dragged in by the tail," part of his broader complaint that the novel is pervasively "cold, cold, cold."
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, May 1889. Sumy. §4 Olga is invented and dragged in by the tail
Olga Ilyinskaya, the novel's heroine, who briefly rouses Oblomov and later marries Stolz; dismissed here along with the other principal characters as unconvincing.