person
Mishka (sixth-form student)
Mishka
also: Мишке VI класса, Mishka of the sixth form
A young acquaintance or relation named only as "Mishka, of the sixth form" (a secondary-school grade) among the family greetings in this letter; not otherwise identified in the surviving correspondence, and distinct from other Mishkas in the corpus (the fictional servant in "Perpetuum Mobile" and the unrelated family acquaintance of).
Reading notes
- To M. P. Chekhova, 9–10 January 1891. Petersburg. §9 Mishka of the sixth form
"VI класса" ("of the sixth form") places this Mishka as a secondary-school student at the level corresponding to roughly the penultimate year of a Russian gymnasium; otherwise unidentified from the surviving text, and distinct from the other Mishkas named elsewhere in the corpus.