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Alexei Fyodorovich Laptev

Laptev

also: Alyosha, Alexei Fyodorych, Fyodor Alexeich

The novella's protagonist, heir (with his brother Fyodor) to the Laptev merchant fortune and its Moscow notions-wholesale warehouse; a timid, self-doubting man scarred by a beaten, cowed childhood, who proposes to Yulia Sergeyevna on impulse and spends the novella's three years discovering that his money cannot buy her love, cannot save his sister or brother, and cannot free him from the warehouse he despises.

Mentioned in 25 works (265 mentions)

To M. M. Chekhov, 4 November 1877. Taganrog. letter · 1 mention
The Alarm Clock's Calendar Stories · 1 mention
The Cat Stories · 21 mentions
The Liberal Stories · 1 mention
The Choristers Stories · 1 mention
To G. P. Kravtsov, 29 January 1883. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
To M. I. Morozova, 27 August 1883. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
The Plain Truth Stories · 1 mention
Children Stories · 8 mentions
A Horsy Name Stories · 1 mention
The Strays Stories · 3 mentions
A Serious Step Stories · 1 mention
The Mire Stories · 3 mentions
A Trifle of Life Stories · 17 mentions
Bad Weather Stories · 2 mentions
To Al. P. Chekhov, 1888. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
To F. Ya. Dolzhenko, 28 July 1888. Tiflis. letter · 1 mention
To the Chekhovs, 17 May 1890. Krasnyy Yar -- Tomsk. letter · 1 mention
To the Chekhovs, 7 June 1890. Irkutsk. letter · 1 mention
To the Chekhovs, 20 June 1890. Shilka, parokhod "Ermak". letter · 1 mention
To Ye. Ya. Chekhova, 6 October 1890. Post Korsakovsky. letter · 1 mention
To the Chekhovs, 1891. Venice. letter · 1 mention
To the Chekhovs, April 1891. Naples. letter · 1 mention
Notebooks. Diaries Notebooks · 8 mentions
Three Years Stories · 186 mentions

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