person
Repina
also: Репина
Fictional character in a story Suvorin is drafting (not otherwise identified or titled in this letter), quoted by Chekhov for a single line of her dialogue -- "I have poisoned myself!" -- as a craft example of Suvorin's tendency to over-motivate his characters' speech. Explicitly NOT the real painter Ilya Repin, who is otherwise unattested by a dedicated entity in this corpus and appears only in the unrelated plural mention "the Repins" in; the two must not be conflated.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 15 November 1888. Moscow. §5 Repina says, "I have poisoned myself!"
DISAMBIGUATION, NEW ENTITY -- "Repina" here is a fictional character's surname within Suvorin's own story-in-progress, quoted only for this single line of dialogue as a craft example. She is explicitly NOT the real painter Ilya Repin, who has no dedicated entity in this corpus and appears only as an unrelated plural mention ("the Repins") in; that mention is generic and unlinked there. The two must not be conflated: one is a fictional character in a draft story, the other a real-life artist referenced only in passing and in the plural, in an entirely different letter and context.