person
Captain Michel
also: капитан Мишель, Мишель
A naval captain of Chekhov's acquaintance, mocked here for having managed to see a Russian fleet in Sevastopol harbor that in fact was not there; distinct from the Tatar host Murza and the unnamed naval prosecutor mentioned later in the same letter.
Reading notes
- To M. P. Chekhova, 14 July 1888. Feodosia. §3 our Captain Michel
An acquaintance mocked for professional vanity: Chekhov jokes that Michel managed to see a Russian fleet in Sevastopol harbor that in fact was not there, a dig at inflated naval pride given the harbor's genuinely thin, unimpressive shipping described in the same sentence.