# Zina — Short Fiction character guide

> Zina in Short Fiction by Anton Chekhov.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mademoiselle Zina, mademoiselle

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

## Who they are

A young woman who is a governess or similar figure.

## Relationships

### [Pyotr Dmitritch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/characters/pyotr_dmitritch)

_family_

Pyotr Dmitritch and Zina are father and daughter, with a protective and authoritative dynamic.

### [Pyotr Dmitritch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/characters/pyotr_dmitritch)

_family_

Pyotr Dmitritch and Zina are father and daughter, with a protective and authoritative dynamic.

## In the story

### [A Story Without an End](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/a-story-without-an-end)

Vassilyev's deceased wife; her coffin is present in the room and she is remembered as a lively, pretty ingénue.

### [A Mystery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/a-mystery)

Navagin's wife, a spiritualist who encourages him to explore the supernatural.

### [Zinotchka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/zinotchka)

The governess Zinotchka, who becomes the object of the narrator's childhood torment after he discovers her secret romance with his brother Sasha.

### [Neighbours](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/neighbours)

Pyotr Mihalitch's younger sister, aged 22, who has left home to live with Vlassitch. She is described as good-looking, elegant, gay, and passionately freethinking.

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

Not present in this chapter.

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