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Firs

also: Фирс

A figure -- possibly a Taganrog acquaintance, possibly a pet -- after whom the visitor Anisim Vasilich asks ("Is my Firs still afloat?"), apparently known for swimming. Not otherwise identified in the corpus.

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Mentioned in 17 works (79 mentions)

Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) Juvenilia · 1 mention
St. Peter's Day Stories · 2 mentions
A Lost Cause Stories · 1 mention
To A. S. Suvorin, 27 March 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
To the Chekhovs, 19 April 1887. Taganrog. letter · 1 mention
Too Early! Stories · 1 mention
The Shepherd's Pipe Stories · 1 mention
The Duel Stories · 1 mention
A Dreary Story Stories · 1 mention
The Wife Stories · 1 mention
Notebooks. Diaries Notebooks · 1 mention
The House with the Mezzanine Stories · 2 mentions
Sakhalin Island Nonfiction · 1 mention
Gooseberries Stories · 1 mention
A Failure of Compensation Stories · 2 mentions
Three Sisters Plays · 2 mentions
The Cherry Orchard Plays · 59 mentions

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