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Zapiski ryadovogo Ivanova (The Notes of Private Ivanov)
"The Notes of Private Ivanov"
also: Записки рядового Иванова
Short story by Vsevolod Garshin whose fictional Captain Wenzel -- caring toward his men yet addicted to flogging -- Chekhov cites at Sakhalin as evidently drawn from life, not invention.
Reading notes
- Sakhalin Island §379 Garshin's "The Notes of Private Ivanov"
Short story by Vsevolod Garshin featuring a fictional officer, at once caring toward his men and addicted to flogging, whom Chekhov here says he has now met the real-life counterpart of.