person
Klavdia Abramovna
also: Клавдия Абрамовна
Olga's sister in Chekhov's "Peasants" material: named only once in the real novella "Peasants" (Мужики, 1897), when the dying Nikolai begs Olga to write to her and ask her to sell or pawn everything she owns to send them money to leave the village; she appears directly, as an aging, semi-retired kept woman living near the Patriarch's Ponds who lodges her niece Sasha, in the discarded draft continuation chapters given in this corpus under "Unfinished [Schulz]" (work id neokonchennoe-shulc).
Reading notes
- Unfinished [Schulz] §5 Olga's sister, Klavdia Abramovna
The source's own designation of the relationship ("Сестра Ольги, Клавдия Абрамовна"); note that in Chekhov's published story "Peasants," to which this discarded chapter material is textually connected (see the headnote), Olga's household is centered in the village of Zhukovo and no sister named Klavdia Abramovna appears -- this figure and the Moscow lodging material around her belong specifically to this cut/alternate draft.