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Polina Nikolayevna Rassudina

Rassudina

also: Polina, Polina Nikolayevna

A plain, thin, exhausted music teacher, separated from her schoolmaster husband and self-supporting through private lessons, who had been Laptev's lover before his marriage and loved him with total disinterestedness; she confronts him bitterly after the wedding, later collapses in his rooms from strain, and by the novella's later chapters has moved in with Yartsev -- not from love on either side, she insists, but from mutual practical need.

Mentioned in 7 works (79 mentions)

To the Chekhovs, 7 April 1887. Taganrog. letter · 1 mention
To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 December 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
To Al. P. Chekhov, 10–11 January 1888. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
To V. A. Vagner, 10 October 1891. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
Notebooks. Diaries Notebooks · 2 mentions
Three Years Stories · 29 mentions
The Seagull Plays · 44 mentions

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