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Manekhino

A village near Voskresensk whose peasants, in Chekhov's account, stole a water bucket from the neighboring village of Trukhino during the autopsy he performed, and were later found to have spent two hours vigorously moving the corpse before it was examined.

Mentioned in 1 work (1 mentions)

To N. A. Leikin, 27 June 1884. Voskresensk. letter · 1 mention

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