Jennechka

Jennka is one of the women in the brothel, known for her biting wit and the sullen distance she keeps even from those who adore her, like Little White Manka. When she learns she has syphilis, she refuses to withdraw quietly; instead she chooses her clients deliberately, infecting the richest and most important among them with a fury that scandalizes and fascinates her companions. Her intimate confession to Tamara reveals a woman who has turned self-destruction into a kind of savage justice, and her fierce, wounded loyalty to the other women makes her both a threat and a strange moral center in the house.