person
The Circassian lodger
the Circassian lodger
also: черкес
An unnamed Circassian man, a lodger of the dead woman whose funeral Chekhov attended on Sakhalin, present out of idle curiosity rather than grief; after the burial he asks Chekhov's party what is to be done with the deceased's two orphaned children, since he is not obliged to feed them. Not otherwise identified from the surviving text.
Reading notes
- To A. F. Koni, 26 January 1891. Petersburg. §21 a Circassian -- a lodger of the dead woman's
An unnamed Circassian lodger present at the funeral (see people:circassians for the ethnonym itself, used here in the same unmarked, descriptive register as elsewhere in the Sakhalin material, per this letter's headnote); his indifference toward the orphaned children (\S25) frames the scene's closing note.