person
Yelizaveta Zakharovna
also: Елизавета Захаровна
The wife of "Jack Vinogradov", named only by first name and patronymic. Chekhov jokes that she must be pleased at her husband's new "ober-Jack" appointment, adding the deadpan detail that she "allows him to sleep on the short sofa" -- a domestic dig implying a henpecked or cramped household rather than any real biographical fact.