person
The Smagins' sister
the Smagins' sister
also: Сестра Смагиных
The unnamed sister of Sergei and Alexander Smagin, of Poltava province; Chekhov describes her at length as once beautiful, good, and gentle, with a magnificent black braid, now touched by melancholy (§8).
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 28 June 1888. Sumy. §8 The Smagins' sister
The unnamed sister of Sergei and Alexander Smagin, described at length and favorably; the third-person praise here ("she," "her brothers") refers to this sister and her two brothers already introduced in §5, not to Pleshcheyev or to Vata.