person
Dmitri Ivanov
Dmitri
also: Дмитрий Иванов
A twelve-year-old peasant orphan from Yaroslavl, left destitute and begging in Moscow after his mother's death; Chekhov and his sister send him home by train, fitted out with money and donated clothes, with letters of introduction asking L. N. Trefolev to help him find a lost aunt and settle his lack of a passport.
Reading notes
- To L. N. Trefolev, 14 April 1888. Moscow. §4 Dmitri Ivanov
A twelve-year-old peasant orphan from Yaroslavl, left destitute in Moscow after his mother's death and living by begging; Chekhov and his sister are sending him home by train, and this letter is a request that Trefolev help him find a lost aunt and sort out his lack of a passport.
- To L. N. Trefolev, 14 April 1888. Moscow. §2 Dmitry Ivanov
The bearer of this note of introduction, whom Chekhov says he already mentioned to Trefolev in an earlier, apparently non-surviving letter; otherwise unidentified in the surviving correspondence.