# Nastasia Leontievna Fuchsman — Yashka character guide

> Nastasia Leontievna Fuchsman in Yashka by Maria Bochkareva.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Nastasia Leontievna, old Nastasia Leontievna

**First appearance:** 0003-i-my-childhood-of-toil

## Who they are

Maria Bochkareva's mother, a fisherman's daughter raised on begged bread and wolf-haunted roads, whose endurance of poverty and a brutal husband shapes her daughter's fierce will.

## In the story

### [My Childhood of Toil](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/yashka_se/chapters/i-my-childhood-of-toil)

Jewish grocer in Tomsk; Maria is sent to her shop to buy salt at the chapter's end.

### [II: Marriage at Fifteen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/yashka_se/chapters/ii-marriage-at-fifteen)

Maria's employer at the shop; Maria leaves her service to work for the Lazovs.

### [III: A Little Happiness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/yashka_se/chapters/iii-a-little-happiness)

Maria's sister; lives in poor circumstances with her unemployed husband in Irkutsk, later moves back to Tomsk.

### [VI: I Enlist by the Grace of the Tsar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/yashka_se/chapters/vi-i-enlist-by-the-grace-of-the-tsar)

Maria visits her old employer, who is overjoyed to see her and later tries to dissuade her from enlisting.

### [XX: I Set Out on a Mission](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/yashka_se/chapters/xx-i-set-out-on-a-mission)

Maria's mother, who mourned her as dead after receiving Petrukhin's letter, is overjoyed at her return but uneasy about the thirty invalids Maria brings to the hut.

## Links

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