concept
"Ivan Mikhailovich Shevyrev" (invented name)
Ivan Mikhailovich Shevyrev
also: Иван Михайлович Шевырев
A comic invented name Chekhov assigns his brother Alexander in mock disownment, after Alexander asked (in some family quarrel) to be struck from the list of relatives; Chekhov 'grants' the request by renaming him entirely rather than actually disowning him -- a deadpan escalation typical of the brothers' running joke register.
Reading notes
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 June 1887. Babkino. §3 Ivan Mikhailovich Shevyrev
Chekhov's mock-compliant response to Alexander's request (in some family quarrel) to be struck from the list of relatives: rather than disowning him, he renames him outright with an invented, unrelated identity -- a deadpan escalation of the joke rather than a real break.