person
Father F. Pokrovsky
also: о. Ф. Покровский, Father Pokrovsky
A priest who wrote Chekhov's friend A. P. Kolomnin a heartfelt letter of thanks for a tea-glass holder Kolomnin and Chekhov had given him; a common surname, and not confirmed as the same figure as the other Pokrovskys already distinguished in this corpus (the Taganrog priest teased about the hussars, whose given initial is not recorded;, from a newspaper advertisement;, an orator). Kept as a distinct, provisional entity pending further identification.
Reading notes
- To M. Ye. Chekhov, 13 March 1891. Petersburg. §6 Father F. Pokrovsky
Kept distinct from the corpus's other Pokrovskys (the Taganrog priest \S, Dr. Pokrovsky of a newspaper advertisement, and the unidentified orator Pokrovsky): none of the three has a recorded initial "F." or this letter's specific context (a tea-glass holder gift, via the intermediary Kolomnin), so no identification is asserted between them.