person
Nikulina's sister
the sister
also: сестрица Никулиной
Nikulina's unnamed sister, described only as "an old maid with a ratlike face" wrapped in a shawl, who bursts into the household scene with a running volley of theatrical gossip about Fedotova and Yermolova; never given a proper name in the letter.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 18 December 1888. Moscow. §6 In comes an old maid with a ratlike face, wrapped in a shawl, introduces herself as Nikulina's sister
NEW ENTITY -- Nikulina's sister, described only as "an old maid with a ratlike face"; never given a proper name anywhere in the letter. Catalogued as an unnamed minor figure distinct from any other "sister" elsewhere in this corpus -- notably distinct from Chekhov's own sister Maria Pavlovna Chekhova.