person
Dmitry Ivanovich Tikhomirov
Tikhomirov
also: Д. И. Тихомиров, D. I. Tikhomirov
A well-known Moscow pedagogue, children's-book author, and editor of the educational journal Detskoye Chteniye ("Children's Reading"); enlisted by Chekhov in early 1891 to approach the Moscow Committee of Literacy (institution:literacy-committee-moscow) about assembling and sending a library to the planned Sakhalin schools. Not to be confused with (Lev Alexandrovich Tikhomirov, the former revolutionary and political pamphleteer), a distinct historical figure who shares only the surname.
Reading notes
- To I. P. Chekhov, 1891. Moscow. §2 D. I. Tikhomirov
Dmitry Ivanovich Tikhomirov, a well-known Moscow pedagogue, children's-book author, and editor of the educational journal \textit{Detskoye Chteniye} ("Children's Reading"); Chekhov enlists him as an intermediary to approach the Moscow Committee of Literacy on behalf of the planned Sakhalin school libraries. Not to be confused with the political writer Lev Alexandrovich Tikhomirov, a distinct historical figure of the same surname.