person
Countess Lida
also: Графиня Лида, Lida
An acquaintance of the Lintvaryov/Luka summer circle, given a joking closing greeting alongside a mock-scandalized reference to her "immoral colonel"; not otherwise identified in this corpus.
Reading notes
- To N. M. Lintvareva, 5 March 1890. Moscow. §4 Countess Lida
"Графиня Лида" -- an affectionate joke-title (she is not an actual countess) current in the Lintvaryov/Luka summer circle, already attested as an unresolved figure in an earlier letter to the same household (where she is given a joking closing greeting alongside a mock-scandalized reference to her "immoral colonel"). Here she is Chekhov's secondhand source for the news that Trosha has been coughing. The corpus has no independent means of resolving exactly who within the Luka circle carried this nickname; rather than guess, this note reuses the existing unresolved entity and leaves the identification open.