Girls in 19th-century Russian lit

[Alina Israeli]

>Good God, are they all BOYS? And as for girls - there's only sestritsa
>Alyonushka?

There is Var'ka in "Spat' xochetsja" who kills a baby, and bol'sherotaja
Natasha Rostova. Anna Karenina had a son and a daughter, we know a few
things about the son but hardly anything about the daughter. Girls were not
interesting to male writers until they became an object of desire.

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 Alina Israeli
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