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Dashenka
also: Дашенька, Darya Ivanovna, Дарья Ивановна
The bride, pretty but (per the narrator) incapable of thought; her dowry, not her character, is the family's and the story's real concern.
Reading notes
- Marriage for Convenience (a novel in two parts) §29 The bride, Dashenka
The bride (a diminutive of Darya/Daria), described as pretty but incapable of thought -- Chekhov's brief, cutting sketch of her sets up the family's real priority: her dowry, not her mind.