person
Alexander Platonovich Blagosvetlov
Blagosvetlov
also: Александр Платоныч Благосветлов, Благосветлов
Fictional retired civil servant, a member of the State Council, being drafted as a character for the play "The Wood Demon" in collaboration with Suvorin. A self-made, humorless "business, business, and business" pragmatist, gouty and irritable, of clerical origin. Shares his surname only coincidentally with the real historical journalist Grigory Blagosvetlov, editor of "Delo" -- not to be linked to any real-person entity of that name.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 18 October 1888. Moscow. §3 Blagosvetlov will go in whole, just as he is.
FICTIONAL CHARACTER, not the real journalist. This Blagosvetlov is the retired State Council member being drafted as a character for the play "The Wood Demon", the collaborative project Chekhov and Suvorin are working on together in this letter. He shares his surname only coincidentally with the real historical journalist Grigory Blagosvetlov (1824-1880), editor of the radical journal "Delo" -- no relation is intended or implied anywhere in this letter, and this fictional character entity must not be linked to, or confused with, any real-person entity for the historical journalist.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 18 October 1888. Moscow. §6 Alexander Platonych Blagosvetlov, a member of the State Council
The playbill's full introduction of the fictional Blagosvetlov: a retired, self-made civil servant of clerical origin, decorated with the Order of the White Eagle and a member of the Imperial State Council (institution:state-council-imperial) -- a senior, real-world Russian governmental body used here only as a plausible biographical detail for a fictional character, not a claim that any such person actually sat on it.