person
Pelageya
also: Пелагея
A household servant of the Chekhov family, greeted here alongside Maryushka in the letter's closing New Year's wishes. Distinct from the fictional cook Pelageya in "Iz dnevnika pomoshchnika bukhgaltera."
Reading notes
- To the Chekhovs, 31 December 1891. Petersburg. §7 Pelageya
A household servant of the Chekhov family, greeted here alongside Maryushka in the same closing wish. This is the entity's first attestation in the corpus; a new entity was created to keep her distinct from the unrelated fictional cook Pelageya in "Iz dnevnika pomoshchnika bukhgaltera" and from the several other same-named figures across Chekhov's fiction.