person
Dmitry Viktorovich Garin-Vinding
Garin-Vinding
also: Д. В. Гарин-Виндинг, Дмитрий Викторович Гарин-Виндинг, D. V. Garin-Vinding, Dmitry Garin
Russian actor and playwright (1853-1921), the letter's addressee. Worked in provincial theaters (1875-1888) before joining Moscow's Maly Theatre (1888-1909); also taught the art of stage makeup at the Moscow Theatre School and initiated the founding of a shelter for elderly actors. Chekhov addresses him with the honorific "His Honor" (\S8) and asks him to propose a day and hour to call once Chekhov returns from his Nizhny Novgorod famine-relief trip. Recurs later in the corpus: in a November 1895 letter Chekhov tells him "The Seagull" is nearly finished.
Reading notes
- To D. V. Garin-Vinding, 13 January 1892. Moscow. §3 Dear Dmitry Viktorovich
Dmitry Viktorovich Garin-Vinding (1853-1921), actor and playwright: provincial theaters 1875-1888, then Moscow's Maly Theatre 1888-1909; also taught the art of stage makeup at the Moscow Theatre School and initiated a shelter for elderly actors. This is his first appearance in the corpus's letters, addressed here on a purely practical matter -- fixing a day and hour to call -- with no theatrical business named; a later letter (14 November 1895) finds Chekhov telling him "The Seagull" is nearly finished, so the acquaintance persists across at least the Melikhovo years.
- To D. V. Garin-Vinding, 21 February 1892. Moscow. §2 Dear Dmitry Viktorovich, I have read both the play and the story.
Dmitry Viktorovich Garin-Vinding (1853-1921), actor and playwright of Moscow's Maly Theatre, recurs in the corpus from an earlier practical note fixing a day to call (13 January 1892). This letter follows up on that visit's evident purpose: Garin-Vinding had left Chekhov a play and a story to read, and Chekhov here reports having read both and places himself "at your service," without naming either work or giving any verdict.