Fyodor Plevako

Reading notes

• M. P. §9 Plevako

  Fyodor Plevako (1842-1908), the most famous Moscow courtroom advocate of the era, renowned for his oratory; another name Vasily Ivanych falsely boasts of knowing.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 18 November 1888. Moscow. §2 Plevako, Fedchenko, and Pokrovsky

  "Plevako" is almost certainly Fyodor Plevako, the celebrated Moscow trial lawyer famed for his courtroom oratory, already named in this corpus as a celebrity acquaintance in ("a handshake from a drunken Plevako") -- reused here rather than duplicated.

• To N. M. Garshina, 27 December 1891. Petersburg. §4 I find A. S. Suvorin's letter to Plevako unnecessary.

  Fyodor Nikiforovich Plevako, the celebrated Moscow courtroom advocate, named here as the intended recipient of Suvorin's now-superfluous letter regarding the Medyntseva estate; Plevako himself takes no active part in the letter beyond being named as the addressee of an approach Chekhov has just rendered moot.

• To V. O. Kononovich, 27 February 1891. Moscow. §6 Plevako received twenty thousand from him

  Fyodor Plevako, the celebrated Moscow trial lawyer, handled the legal work attending Pleshcheyev's inheritance and reportedly billed 20,000 rubles for it -- the first of two large fees Chekhov itemizes in the same breath, part of the letter's wry running tally of what Plevako's practice was worth that season.

• The Village Elder §7 Plevako

  Fyodor Plevako (1842-1908), Moscow's most celebrated courtroom advocate, famous for his oratory and his ability to sway juries; Shelma boasts that even Plevako "would have stumbled" on the case he is about to describe, a joke that both flatters Plevako's reputation and inflates Shelma's own.