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The Stationmaster
"The Stationmaster"
also: Станционный смотритель, The Station Master, The Stationmaster's Tale
Alexander Pushkin's short story from "The Tales of Belkin" (1831); Chekhov cites its scene of the narrator kissing the fourteen-year-old Dunya as a second literary precedent, alongside Catherine and Mamonov, for youthful romantic/sexual pairings predating the present day.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 27 May 1891. Bogimovo. §6 Pushkin, in his "Stationmaster,"
Pushkin's short story from \emph{The Tales of Belkin} (1831); Chekhov's second literary precedent, citing its scene of a grown narrator kissing the fourteen-year-old Dunya as further evidence against Suvorin's claim that youthful impropriety is a new phenomenon.