person
Zinochka
also: Зиночка, казачка Зиночка
The landlord Korneev's niece, a Cossack girl newly returned from Novocherkassk, who prays nightly that Chekhov won't fall in love with someone -- a domestic-news item in a letter to Suvorin. Distinct from the unrelated "Zinochka" and her family circle, fictional characters in the separate story "Zinochka" elsewhere in this corpus.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 6 February 1889. Moscow. §5 a Cossack girl, Zinochka, who prays to God every night that I won't fall in love with someone
NON-CONFLATION FLAG -- this Zinochka is the landlord Korneev's niece, newly returned from Novocherkassk, a letter-local figure with no prior attestation. She is DISTINCT from the unrelated "Zinochka" cast of characters belonging to the separate story "Zinochka" already in this corpus -- that is fiction; this is a real household detail reported in a letter.