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Lvov

also: Львов

FICTIONAL CHARACTER, the priggish young doctor in Chekhov's play "Ivanov". Not to be confused with the real actor Nikolai Sazonov, cast here to play him.

Reading notes

To A. S. Suvorin, 19 December 1888. Moscow. §15 Lvov -- Sazonov.
FICTIONAL role "Lvov" (the priggish young doctor) matched against the REAL actor Nikolai Fyodorovich Sazonov.
To A. S. Suvorin, 30 December 1888. Moscow. §12 I pass on to Dr. Lvov.
Dr. Lvov, the play's other major analyzed figure, a fictional character referred to as "Lvov" or "the doctor" interchangeably by Chekhov -- both forms denote the same character throughout this letter. The dissection of Lvov runs \S12-15 (and is returned to at \S19, \S31, \S33).
To A. S. Suvorin, 3 January 1889. Moscow. §4 Dr. Lvov
FICTIONAL CHARACTER: the priggish young doctor of "Ivanov", already extensively analyzed as a fictional figure in's headnote (the long letter to Suvorin explaining Chekhov's conception of the play's characters). Not to be confused with the real actor Apollonsky, cast here to play him.