person
Zinaida Mikhailovna Lintvaryova
Zinaida Mikhailovna
also: Зинаида Михайловна
One of the Lintvaryov sisters (daughter of Alexandra Vasilyevna Lintvaryova) at whose Sumy estate the Chekhov household summered; a blind physician who practiced from the estate. Distinct from the many other Zinaidas in the corpus (e.g.).
Reading notes
- To the Chekhovs, 23 July 1888. Feodosia. §7 Zinaida Mikhailovna
One of the Lintvaryov sisters at Luka, a blind physician who practiced from the estate.
- To Ye. M. Lintvareva, 23 November 1888. Moscow. §10 Zinaida Mikhailovna wrote to Misha
Zinaida Mikhailovna Lintvaryova, another of Elena Mikhailovna's sisters (first identified at), reported here as the writer of a domestic anecdote to Chekhov's younger brother Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov ("Misha,") -- not to be confused with Pavel Mikhailovich or with the letter's addressee, Elena Mikhailovna herself.
- To N. M. Lintvareva, 14 December 1891. Moscow. §8 Zinaida Mikhailovna did well to die --
that is true, and yet all the same it is terribly sad about her.
Zinaida Mikhailovna Lintvaryova, Natalya Mikhailovna's sister, a blind physician who had practiced from the family's Sumy estate where the Chekhov household summered; her death is the "family grief" (\foreignlanguage{russian}{"семейное горе"}) referred to at the start of this section. Chekhov's blunt formulation -- that she "did well to die," evidently a release from a long illness, and yet the loss remains "terribly sad" -- is characteristic of his unsentimental but not unfeeling approach to death elsewhere in the corpus (cf., \S10, on his aunt: "Of course we shall all die, but it is sad all the same"); the note is given honestly, without softening the source's directness, in keeping with the real weight of a genuine personal loss to a close correspondent.