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Susanna Moiseyevna

Susanna

also: Сусанна Моисеевна, Сусанна, еврейка, the Jewess

A wealthy, unmarried young Jewish widow living alone on her late father's distillery estate, drawn by Chekhov as a bundle of contradictions -- self-loathing and self-love, contempt for and identification with her own people, seductive charm and calculated menace -- who takes the promissory notes from each cousin in turn and, by the story's end, has drawn a whole circle of the district's married, 'respectable' men back to her house.

Mentioned in 4 works (22 mentions)

The Mire Stories · 19 mentions
To Paris! Stories · 1 mention
Ivanov Plays · 1 mention
Peasant Women Stories · 1 mention

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