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Agafya

also: Агафья, Агафья Стрельчиха, Agafya Strelchikha, Agasha, Агаша

A young woman of nineteen or twenty, married less than a year to the railway switchman Yakov, who slips away at night to Savka's garden plot for a tryst and, having missed the sound of her husband's returning train, must walk home past him at dawn in full view of the village.

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Mentioned in 9 works (39 mentions)

Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) Juvenilia · 4 mentions
The Alarm Clock's Calendar Stories · 1 mention
Children Stories · 1 mention
Agafya Stories · 28 mentions
To N. A. Leikin, 22 November 1886. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
A Romance with a Double Bass Stories · 1 mention
To M. V. Kiseleva, 17 March 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
To Al. P. Chekhov, 19 March 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
A Dreary Story Stories · 1 mention

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