person
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
Chernyshevsky
also: Чернышевский, Н. Г. Чернышевский
Radical Russian critic, novelist ("What Is to Be Done?"), and revolutionary democrat (1828-1889), a hero of the 1860s intelligentsia; named here among the writers whose anniversaries Moscow's literary men toast alongside Turgenev, Saltykov, and Gleb Uspensky.
Reading notes
- To D. V. Grigorovich, 12 January 1888. Moscow. §9 Chernyshevsky, Saltykov, and Gl. Uspensky
Nikolai Chernyshevsky (radical critic and novelist), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (satirical novelist), and Gleb Uspensky (writer on peasant life) -- writers whom Chekhov associates with the literary intelligentsia's own toasting tradition, as opposed to the medical students' toasts to Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Grigorovich.