person
Tarnovskaya
also: Тарновская
A woman doctor whom Chekhov met at a dinner at Aivazovsky's estate, identified as the wife of a well-known professor (probably Veniamin Tarnovsky,, the prominent venereologist); Chekhov gives an unflattering physical description of her and jokes about striking her from the roll of physicians after talking with her.
Reading notes
- To the Chekhovs, 23 July 1888. Feodosia. §4 Tarnovskaya
A woman doctor Chekhov met at dinner at Aivazovsky's, identified as the wife of a well-known professor -- almost certainly Veniamin Tarnovsky, the prominent venereologist. Chekhov gives an unflattering physical description of her and jokes about striking her from his mental list of physicians; she is a distinct person from her husband and appears in the corpus only here.