# Elena — Short Fiction character guide

> Elena in Short Fiction by Anton Chekhov.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Nellie, Elena Ivanovna

**First appearance:** 0000-a-living-chattel

## Who they are

A woman who appears in the stories.

## In the story

### [The Looking-Glass](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/the-looking-glass)

Nellie, the protagonist, is a young and pretty girl dreaming of marriage. She experiences a vivid vision of her future through the looking-glass.

### [The Privy Councillor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/the-privy-councillor)

Tatyana Ivanovna, the young wife who is the object of the uncle's admiration.

### [Chapter IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/iv)

Panaurov's mistress; hosts Laptev for dinner, appearing unhappy and embarrassed.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/iv)

Not present in this chapter.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/i)

The engineer's wife, a kind-hearted former governess from Moscow, who initiates the purchase of land and the building of the New Villa, and gives money to the poor village children.

### [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/iii)

Visits the village with her daughter, expresses her unhappiness and sense of being an outsider despite wealth, and pleads for neighborly peace.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/iv)

Elena Ivanovna, the engineer's wife, leaves with the children for Moscow after the Lytchkovs' fight.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/v)

Remembered by the peasants as beautiful, grandly dressed, and friendly; her departure is mourned as a lost connection.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/ii)

Nina Ivanovna, Nadya's mother, who is interested in spiritualism and homeopathy, and seems unhappy and dependent on Granny.

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