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Khvedya

also: Хведя, Fedya, Феде

A folk-dialect nickname for Fedya (Fyodor), the acquaintance owed a share of Alexander's 19-ruble-45-kopek payment in the Chekhov brothers' running joke about the family's small debts.

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To Al. P. Chekhov, 12 November 1882. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

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