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Nadya Zelenina

Nadya

also: Надя Зеленина, Надя

A sixteen-year-old girl who, coming home from a performance of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, sits down to write a Tatyana-style confession letter to one of her two suitors; the story's protagonist, whose attention slides from grand unhappiness through tears to a surge of pure, objectless joy before she tears up the letter unfinished.

Mentioned in 18 works (120 mentions)

Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) Juvenilia · 1 mention
This and That (Letters and Telegrams) Stories · 1 mention
Which of the Three? Stories · 23 mentions
Forgotten!! Stories · 2 mentions
A Living Chronology Stories · 2 mentions
Children Stories · 1 mention
Drowsy Stupor Stories · 2 mentions
Whining (A Letter from Far Away) Stories · 2 mentions
A Little Joke Stories · 4 mentions
Sh-h-h! Stories · 2 mentions
The Commission Stories · 1 mention
An Unpleasant Business Stories · 2 mentions
The Duel Stories · 1 mention
To A. S. Suvorin, 18 December 1888. Moscow. letter · 5 mentions
Notebooks. Diaries Notebooks · 7 mentions
After the Theatre Stories · 8 mentions
Visiting Friends Stories · 3 mentions
The Bride Stories · 53 mentions

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