The last of the Mohicans

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Anton Chekhov

The Last Mohican ( Russian Последняя могиканша , Poslednjaja mogikanscha ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on May 6, 1885 in the daily newspaper Peterburgskaja Gazeta . In this satire, the author denounces the arrogance of class among the declining Russian landed nobility.

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One spring morning the first-person narrator met the knight master a. D. Dokukin, a landowner, visited. Both look bored out of the window. Because of sheer boredom, the host would even welcome a bailiff's visit as a change. Not knowing anything bad, Dokukin is visited from outside by his dear sister, Olimpiada Jegorowna Chlykina, who is around 40 years old. The husband Dossifej Andrejitsch, shorter than his stately Olimpiada, follows them with shy, fearful looks. Olimpiada asks his brother to have lent at lunch and then wants to go to the city to see the aristocratic marshal.

Dokukin has the desired variety. He asks the sister why the afternoon audience. Olimpiada wants to complain to the noble marshal about Dossifei. The noble husband would not behave appropriately.

How come? asks Dokukin. Well, replies Olimpiada, your Dossifej, for example, is playing checkers with the merchant Gussjew and hunting with the clerk.

While eating his Lent, Dossifej gazes at the two gentlemen's chops. After the meal, Olimpiada rests a little in Dokukin's bedroom. Meanwhile, the staff stepmaster articulates that he cannot understand the change of his brother-in-law Dossifei into a willless, weak-tempered husband. After all, he had constructed a seed drill at a young age and distinguished himself as a speaker in the aristocratic assembly. The shy Dossifej pulls himself up to object. Although his wife was strict, she showered him with benefits every day.

German-language editions

Output used:

  • The last of the Mohicans , pp. 61–66 in Anton Chekhov: Happiness and other stories. Translated from the Russian by Alexander Eliasberg . 187 pages. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1962, Goldmann's yellow paperbacks, vol. 868

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