person
Gulda Martynovna
also: Гульда Мартыновна, Hulda Martynovna
The wife of R. R. Golike, the St. Petersburg printer; Chekhov relays his sister Maria's playful "eight-story" thank-you to her in this letter, capping the running joke begun with Chekhov's own "six-story bow" to Golike three months earlier.