Its protagonist requests powders from the doctor's assistant (*) Maxim for his wife of 52 years, whom he measures on her deathbed to get measurements for a coffin.
In this story, a man realizes he could have made a lot of money by catching fish, slaughtering geese, and towing barges while walking by a river he had not visited in the last forty or fifty years of his life. A woman in this story asks her husband to recall being given a blonde girl who died in childhood by a pussywillow. In this story, street urchins torment both the red-haired, freckled title character and the protagonist, calling him "Bronzy." Its protagonist requests powders from the doctor's assistant (*) Maxim for his wife of 52 years, whom he measures on her deathbed to get measurements for a coffin. After Marfa dies, the protagonist of this story falls ill and tells a priest to give the title object to a man he plays in a klezmer band with before dying. For 10 points, name this Anton Chekhov story in which Yakov gives a Jew the title instrument.
In this story, a man realizes he could have made a lot of money by catching fish, slaughtering geese, and towing barges while walking by a river he had not visited in the last forty or fifty years of his life.
"Rothschild's Violin" [or "Rothschild's Fiddle;" or Skripka Rotshilda]