person
Volodya (Wagner's nephew)
Volodya
also: Володя
The "learned nephew" of the zoologist Nikolai Petrovich Wagner, referred to familiarly as Volodya; his aunts guard his wife's honor with comic, gendarme-like vigilance, per this letter's set piece. Not otherwise identified beyond the name and relation to Wagner -- distinct from the many other Volodyas in the corpus, including the unrelated fictional protagonist and Chekhov's own relative.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 13 July 1891. Bogimovo. §7 Volodya's marriage bed
Wagner's "learned nephew," referred to familiarly as Volodya; the comic set piece has his visiting aunts guarding his wife's honor with gendarme-like vigilance. Otherwise unidentified beyond the name and relation to Wagner.