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Rogulka
also: Рогулька, Рогулькой
One of the dogs kept by the Leikin household in St. Petersburg, regularly named alongside Apel in Chekhov's closing greetings to Leikin's family across several letters of 1886.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 21 February 1889. Moscow. §9 Rogulka and her spouse
One of the dogs kept by the Leikin household, elsewhere paired in the corpus with another named "Apel"; here imagined squabbling with the visiting dachshunds alongside her unnamed mate, who is not otherwise identified and left unlinked.
- To N. A. Leikin, 27 December 1890. Moscow. §7 Rogulka
One of the dogs kept by the Leikin household, named alongside Apel Apelich in Chekhov's closing greetings across several letters spanning at least 1886 through this one; here she is additionally the target of an unnamed yard mongrel's attentions, the small domestic detail that gives this stock closing formula its specific comic charge in this particular letter.