person
Arshaulov
also: Аршаулов
The assistant police-master (помощник полициймейстера) in Tomsk who calls on Chekhov late one evening, turning out not to be a political inquiry but a star-struck literary admirer come to pay his respects "as to Mecca, to Mohammed"; Chekhov later entrusts him with a trunk to deliver to the Novoye Vremya office in Petersburg.