person
Borodavkin
also: Бородавкин
A former Petersburg merchant, exiled to Sakhalin for arson (поджог), who offered Chekhov a teaspoon out of his own pocket while they drank tea together at a mine -- one of the small, unembellished human details Chekhov records amid the flogging and wheelbarrow-convict material of \S8, given without further comment or judgment. No identification beyond this letter has been located.