figure
Count Shabelsky
Shabelsky
also: Шабельский, граф Шабельский
FICTIONAL CHARACTER, Ivanov's impoverished, cynical uncle in Chekhov's play "Ivanov". Distinct from (an unrelated fictional father-figure in another work) and from the real actors discussed for the role: Svobodin, Chekhov's insistent choice, versus Davydov and Dalmatov, both of whom Chekhov explicitly wants kept away from the part.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 19 December 1888. Moscow. §14 Shabelsky -- Svobodin.
FICTIONAL role "Count Shabelsky" (Ivanov's impoverished, cynical uncle) matched against the REAL actor Pavel Matveyevich Svobodin. This is the letter's central casting demand, restated as "unshakeable will" and returned to emphatically at \S34. Do not confuse this fictional Count Shabelsky with the unrelated fictional entity (a father-figure character in a different, unrelated work in this corpus).
- To A. S. Suvorin, 3 January 1889. Moscow. §4 Shabelsky
FICTIONAL CHARACTER: Count Matvei Shabelsky, Ivanov's impoverished, cynical uncle in "Ivanov" -- not a real person. Not to be confused with the actor approved here to play him, whose name the source text garbles (see the \S4 note on "Svobodin [sic]" below).
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