person
Kotik
also: Котик
A nickname (literally "kitten"/"tomcat") for an unidentified member of Lyubov Kamburova's circle, the butt of a joke about a cross-eyed tomcat who once courted her. Not otherwise identified in the corpus.
Reading notes
- To L. A. Kamburova, 1880. Moscow. §5 Kotik
A nickname (literally "kitten" or "tomcat") for an unidentified member of Kamburova's circle, the butt of a joke about a "cross-eyed tomcat" that once courted her -- itself a self-deprecating dig at Chekhov's own cast eye.