person
Tanya
also: Таню, Tanya
A member of the Kiselevs' Voskresensk/Babkino household circle whose name-day (Tatyana's Day, 12 January) Chekhov is arranging a dinner party to celebrate, inviting Alexei Sergeyevich Kiselev and Uspensky; not otherwise identified in the corpus, and distinct from unrelated fictional Tanyas elsewhere in Chekhov's work.
Reading notes
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 6 January 1888. Moscow. §18 celebrate Tanya's name-day
Likely timed near Tatyana's Day (12 January, Julian calendar), a traditional Russian name-day for women named Tatyana; the elaborate mock menu that follows (locs 13-18) is presented as the bill of fare for this celebration.