person
Nikitishna
also: Никитишна
Named only as the mock "odalisque" of the joking "patriarch-catholicos Aivazyants" (a jab at the painter Ivan Aivazovsky) in Chekhov's roll call of Suvorin's Odessa/Crimean circle; a real person in that circle addressed by this comic title, otherwise unidentified from the surviving text.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 13 July 1891. Bogimovo. §4 his odalisque Nikitishna
"Odalisque" continues the same mock-Oriental joke begun with "patriarch-catholicos"; Nikitishna is presumably a real member of Suvorin's Odessa/Crimean circle addressed by this comic title, otherwise unidentified from the surviving text.