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The Lintvaryov sisters

the girls

also: Девочки, the girls

The daughters of the Lintvaryov family, at whose Sumy estate (on the Psyol) the Chekhov household rented a summer dacha; Chekhov reports to his brother Misha that he has taken a liking to them and expects Misha will soon make friends with them too.

Reading notes

To M. P. Chekhov, 24–25 April 1888. Moscow. §4 The girls are very nice
The daughters of the Lintvaryov family, at whose Sumy estate Chekhov has rented the summer dacha; he tells Misha, who is already there looking over the place, that he expects Misha will soon make friends with them himself.
Ivan Pavlovich Chekhov, 10 May 1888. Sumy. §7 One of the Lintvaryov daughters, a woman doctor, has gone blind
A third party being discussed, not the addressee: one of the daughters of the Chekhovs' hosts at the Sumy dacha, a practicing physician who had gone blind from a brain tumor -- historically Zinaida Mikhailovna Lintvaryova, though Chekhov does not name her here and the surviving apparatus has no individual record distinct from the sisters as a group.
To A. S. Suvorin, 30 May 1888. Sumy. §9 Her eldest daughter, a woman physician
One of the Lintvaryov daughters, hosts' family at the Sumy dacha -- a practicing physician, blind and dying of a brain tumor. Historically Zinaida Mikhailovna Lintvaryova, though Chekhov does not name her here and the surviving apparatus has no individual record distinct from the sisters as a group, following the same convention used for her in the 10 May 1888 letter to Ivan Chekhov.
To A. S. Suvorin, 30 May 1888. Sumy. §10 The second daughter is also a woman physician
A second Lintvaryov daughter, also a practicing physician -- historically Elena Mikhailovna Lintvaryova, though again not individually named in the letter and folded into the collective record.
To A. S. Suvorin, 30 May 1888. Sumy. §11 the woman doctor
Continues the portrait of the second Lintvaryov daughter (see loc 10) at the paramedic station.
To A. S. Suvorin, 30 May 1888. Sumy. §12 The third daughter, who has finished the course at the Bestuzhev courses
The youngest Lintvaryov daughter, a graduate of the Bestuzhev Courses and an enthusiastic Ukrainophile who has built a village school at her own expense -- historically Natalya Mikhailovna Lintvaryova.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 10 June 1888. Sumy. §6 a letter to Elena Mikh
Referent tracking: Elena Mikhailovna is a Lintvaryov daughter (the estate's eldest daughter, a woman doctor, per), a third party at whose address Alexander had drunkenly written a letter that Anton intercepted and tore up -- not the letter's addressee, Alexander himself.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 10 June 1888. Sumy. §7 Elena Mikh considers you an extraordinary man
Referent tracking: "you" here is Alexander, the letter's addressee -- Elena Mikh is the one holding the opinion of him, not the one being addressed or described as extraordinary. Keeps the pronoun's referent (Alexander) distinct from Elena Mikh, the subject of the sentence.
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 11 June 1888. Vorozhba. §2 Elena
Elena Mikhailovna Lintvaryova, the estate's eldest daughter and a woman doctor (introduced in), one of several household members who signed this collective farewell telegram; catalogued under the collective entity along with her sisters Zinaida and Natalya.
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 11 June 1888. Vorozhba. §2 Natalya
Natalya Mikhailovna Lintvaryova, the estate's third daughter and a schoolteacher (introduced in), catalogued under the collective entity along with her sisters Elena and Zinaida.
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 27 August 1888. Sumy. §6 the Lintvaryov sisters
Daughters of the Lintvaryov family at whose Luka estate near Sumy the Chekhovs were summering; here reported as matchmaking between Chekhov's brother Ivan and Vata.
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 26 June 1889. Sumy. §4 I talked Svobodin and the Lintvarevs into it and set off with them to the Smagins in Poltava province
The Lintvaryov family, owners of the Luka estate near Sumy where the Chekhovs summered and where Nikolai died; here Chekhov brings members of the family along on the ill-fated rest trip to the Smagins'. Not individuated by first name in this letter.
To the Chekhovs, 28 May 1890. Krasnoyarsk. §9 the Lintvaryov brothers and sisters
Поклон отцу, Ивану... братьям и сестрам Линтваревым -- a collective greeting to the whole set of grown Lintvaryov siblings at the Luka estate near Sumy (Georgy, Pavel, Natalya, Elena, and Zinaida among them; see,,), rather than any individually named subset. Chekhov elsewhere addresses several of them by name in the same breath (compare \S19's direct address to Natalya under her household nickname "Trosha"); here the greeting is deliberately general, folding the whole sibling generation into one line alongside their mother Alexandra Vasilyevna.