person
Baroness Ikskul's son
the Baroness's son
also: сын баронессы Икскуль, морской офицер
An unnamed naval officer, son of Baroness Varvara Ivanovna Ikskul, who traveled with Chekhov by rail from Vladivostok to Moscow on the final leg of his return from Sakhalin; Chekhov describes him as "a clean and honest boy" devoted to his mother.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 9 December 1890. Moscow. §10 морским офицером
The baroness's son, an unnamed naval officer, was Chekhov's traveling companion for the final rail leg from Vladivostok to Moscow -- days of shared travel that seem to have left Chekhov with a genuinely warm impression ("a clean and honest boy"), independent of his ambivalence about the mother's earlier unhelpfulness.