person
S. N. Filippov
Filippov
also: С. Н. Филиппов, Филиппов
Moscow journalist and theatrical reviewer, author of "Po Krymu" ("Through the Crimea"), who worked for the "Russian Courier" and "Russian Gazette"; Chekhov gives Suvorin a pointed, backhanded recommendation of him for work at "Novoye Vremya," praising his sharp style while warning he arrives without work in hand and needs assignments invented for him. Distinct from the unrelated Filippov bakery entities elsewhere in the corpus.
Reading notes
- To S. N. Filippov, 2 February 1890. Petersburg. §4 your Dnieper sketch
Filippov had evidently submitted, or proposed, a descriptive sketch about the Dnieper river for publication in Suvorin's \emph{Novoye Vremya}; Suvorin's reason for declining -- that it concerns summer subject matter and is being considered in winter -- is a plain editorial-seasonality judgment, not a comment on the sketch's quality. The piece itself is not otherwise identified or tracked in this corpus.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 17 February 1890. Moscow. §5 Filippov the eagle
"Орёл" ("the eagle") is a jesting, affectionate epithet Chekhov applies to S. N. Filippov here -- a colloquial ribbing nickname for the occasion, not a title or a fixed sobriquet attached to him elsewhere in the corpus.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 17 February 1890. Moscow. §5 his Dnieper tale
An otherwise unidentified manuscript of Filippov's, evidently set on or concerning the Dnieper river, which he wants back from Suvorin to revise ("clean it up, fix it, sniff it over") before a planned spring printing.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 4 March 1890. Moscow. §3 Филиппова… и Ежова
Chekhov forwards two manuscripts to Suvorin in a single package -- one by the journalist S. N. Filippov, who had visited him the day before, and one by his young protégé Nikolai Mikhailovich Yezhov. He immediately hedges: he admits he has not even read Yezhov's story, and states as a standing policy that forwarding a manuscript in his own hand is not an endorsement of its quality -- a recurring disclaimer in these literary-business letters to Suvorin, who relied on Chekhov as an informal talent scout for \emph{Novoye Vremya}.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 15 March 1890. Moscow. §4 рассказ Филиппова
S. N. Filippov, the Moscow journalist and theatrical reviewer Chekhov had been informally promoting to Suvorin as a possible \emph{Novoye Vremya} contributor; here Chekhov forwards a story of his along with his own, relaying Filippov's own request that it be returned if it does not suit.
- To S. N. Filippov, 18 April 1890. Moscow. §2 dear Sergei Nikitovich
This letter's full salutation by given name and patronymic -- "Сергей Никитович" -- confirms the identity of S. N. Filippov, the Moscow journalist Chekhov had recommended to Suvorin for work at Novoye Vremya and asked Suvorin to follow up on by bare surname a month earlier ("Ответьте насчет Филиппова" / "Answer me about Filippov,", \S10). that letter's glossary flags that follow-up as a contextual inference rather than a certainty (confidence: medium in its crossref). This letter does not itself resolve that earlier thread -- Filippov is not mentioned in's own correspondence with Suvorin about him -- but it independently establishes Filippov as a real, known, first-name correspondent of Chekhov's by April 1890, consistent with (though not proof of) the same journalist being the subject of the March letter's query. Flagged here as a supporting connection, not a resolution of that separate thread's confidence level.