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Zinaida Savishna

also: Зинаида Савишна

FICTIONAL CHARACTER, wife of Pavel Kirillych Lebedev and mother of Sasha in Chekhov's play "Ivanov"; a miserly, gossiping landowner's wife obsessed with the debt Ivanov owes her husband, whose casual gossip about Ivanov's wife includes referring to her with the ethnic slur "zhidovka" at sections 296 and 304. Not to be confused with (Marfa Yegorovna Babakina), a different character in the same play.

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Ivanov Plays · 47 mentions

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