person
Olenka Lashkevich
Olenka
also: Оленька Лашкевич, Olga Lashkevich
A young woman of Chekhov's Moscow acquaintance in 1884; this letter turns a once-considered marriage proposal to her into a running comic joke built on her (probably invented or exaggerated) illness.
Reading notes
- To M. P. Chekhova, 3 September 1884. Voskresensk. §6 Olenka Lashkevich
A young woman of Chekhov's acquaintance; the letter's running joke turns his once-considered marriage proposal into a punchline built around her illness.