person
Fyodor Nikolayevich Berg
F. Berg
also: Ф. Берг
Fyodor Berg (1840-1909), minor poet and editor of the journal Rossiya, ranked among the Collegiate Registrars.
Reading notes
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 5 April 1888. Moscow. §5 he had not seen it, and that this was the very first time in his life he had even heard of you, madam
Berg's dismissive remark about Kiseleva -- that he had never so much as heard of her -- is relayed by Chekhov in his report of the conversation; it is not a direct insult Berg delivered to Kiseleva face to face. Chekhov is recounting a private exchange between the two men for comic effect, at Kiseleva's expense, not describing an encounter between Berg and Kiseleva herself.