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Tsyganshchina
"Tsyganshchina"
also: Цыганщина
A story manuscript by Ye. M. Shavrova, left untranslated in the title (literally something like "Gypsy stuff"/"gypsy-style romance," from tsygane, "Gypsies\/Roma"); Chekhov returns it to her here at her own request rather than carrying it to Petersburg with her other manuscripts.
Reading notes
- To Ye. M. Shavrova, 11 March 1891. Moscow. §4 "Tsyganshchina,"
Left untranslated as a title: \textit{Tsyganshchina} (Цыганщина) derives from \textit{tsygane} ("Gypsies"/Roma) and denotes something like "Gypsy stuff" or a stagey, sentimentalized Gypsy-romance idiom -- a manuscript by Shavrova that Chekhov here returns to her at her own request rather than carrying to Petersburg with her other stories.