Count Yevgeny Andreyevich Salias de Tournemire

Reading notes

• To I. L. Leontyev, 4 February 1888. Moscow. §6 Salias, whom he praises to the skies

  Count Yevgeny Salias de Tournemire, a prolific historical novelist; the referent of "whom he praises to the skies" is Salias, not Shcheglov -- Chekhov's point is that Burenin would find it absurd to be asked whether Shcheglov is better than a writer he already rates so highly.