person
Natalya Timofeevna Shekhtel
Natalya Timofeevna
also: Наталье Тимофеевне, Наталья Тимофеевна
A woman close to Fyodor Shekhtel's household, greeted with respects in Chekhov's letters to him; her exact relationship to Shekhtel is not stated in the source text of either letter that mentions her. An earlier pass of this corpus labeled her "Shekhtel's mother"; a later pass (letter 3-550, Dec 1888) identified her as his wife -- but Shekhtel's actual wife, Natalya Timofeyevna Zhegina, married him only in 1893, after this letter, so "wife" would be anachronistic for 1888. Neither label is textually confirmed; flagged here as unresolved rather than asserted.
Reading notes
- To F. O. Shekhtel, September 1887. Moscow. §5 Natalya Timofeevna
Fyodor Shekhtel's mother, to whom Chekhov sends closing respects, as he does in other letters to Shekhtel of this period.
- To F. O. Shekhtel, 16 December 1888. Moscow. §6 Natalya Timofeyevna
Greeted here by name, as in other letters to Shekhtel across the corpus (e.g. the end-of-September 1887 letter).