person
Bylim-Kolosovsky
also: Былим-Колосовский
Owner of the house in Aleksin whose upper floor the Chekhov household moved into in May 1891, identified by Chekhov via a comic anecdote (he gave Mizinova milk to drink but forgot to offer her berries); the same house recurs in the family's correspondence for the remainder of the Aleksin stay before the move to Bogimovo.
Reading notes
- To L. S. Mizinova, 17 May 1891. Aleksin. §4 Bylim-Kolosovsky's house -- the very one who gave you milk to drink and, doing so, forgot to treat you to berries
The landlord of the Aleksin house the Chekhov household is moving into, identified purely by a comic anecdote of hospitality gone half-right; the same house is referenced again, without renaming him, in the headnote background to (20 May 1891, to Suvorin), where the family has already made the move described here as still pending.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 18 May 1891. Aleksin. §3 Kolosovsky
Bylim-Kolosovsky, owner of the Aleksin estate whose upper floor the Chekhov family is moving into as this letter is written; introduced by name a day earlier in Chekhov's 17 May letter to Lika Mizinova, which identifies him by the fuller double surname "Bylim-Kolosovsky" and by the same comic anecdote of the forgotten berries -- here Chekhov gives Suvorin the shorter form "Kolosovsky" alone.
- To L. S. Mizinova, 20 June 1891. Bogimovo. §6 Kolosovsky's blonde
Kolosovsky is the landowner Bylim-Kolosovsky, on whose Aleksin/Bogimovo-area estate the Chekhov household was living that summer (see.).