person

Ivan Yegorovich Gavrilov

Gavrilov

also: Гаврилов, Ivan Yegorovich Gavrilov, Иван Егорович Гаврилов

A Moscow tradesman or merchant with whom Chekhov hopes his young Taganrog cousin might be placed as an apprentice boy-clerk; his Zamoskvorechye house address later serves as the mailing address for letters to the family in Moscow.

Reading notes

To M. M. Chekhov, 16 April 1878. Taganrog. §12 Ivan Yegorovich Gavrilov
The Moscow tradesman with whom Chekhov had earlier hoped to place a struggling young cousin as an apprentice; his Zamoskvorechye house serves here as the mailing address reaching Mikhail.
To N. A. Leikin, 20 August 1886. Babkino. §7 Teplye Ryady, I. E. Gavrilov's warehouse
Teplye Ryady ("the Warm Rows"), a covered trading arcade near Kitai-Gorod in central Moscow, housed wholesale textile and dry-goods warehouses; Chekhov's father Pavel Yegorovich clerked there for the merchant Gavrilov, and letters and money sent to him care of the warehouse were the standard way to reach him during business hours.
To M. M. Chekhov, 29 July 1877. Taganrog. §4 Gavrilov's shop
A Taganrog shopkeeper (likely a haberdasher or general-goods dealer) whose premises served as a local meeting point; his shop appears elsewhere in the early Taganrog letters.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 19–20 February 1887. Moscow. §4 For you Suvorin is Ivan Yegorych
Ivan Yegorovich Gavrilov, a Moscow tradesman known to the Chekhov family from their Taganrog and early Moscow years; Chekhov's point is one of social scale -- to Alexander, a provincial journalist, the great publisher Suvorin is remote and awe-inspiring, no more approachable than an ordinary shopkeeper like Gavrilov would be; but to Chekhov himself, now a valued contributor, Suvorin is simply a man who depends on his writers -- an "exploiter."
To Al. P. Chekhov, 7–8 September 1887. Moscow. §6 a Gavrilov
Used generically here for a merchant-employer paying wages rather than the specific Ivan Yegorovich Gavrilov of Chekhov's Taganrog-period letters; the comparison casts Suvorin, in the toadies' eyes, as a mere paymaster rather than a colleague.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 March 1888. Moscow. §18 Gavrilov girl
A joking reference to an earlier, unrelated mock courtship -- of a daughter of the Moscow acquaintance Ivan Yegorovich Gavrilov -- used here as a comic point of comparison for the present, grander Suvorin scheme.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 4–15 May 1891. Aleksin. §3 Gavrilov's
The employer the Chekhov father Pavel Yegorovich has just left; Gavrilov's parting jab that "your children are scoundrels" is quoted verbatim and relayed with evident relish ("Chew on that!").
To Al. P. Chekhov, 24–25 July 1891. Bogimovo. §3 Ivanygorch
"Иваныгорча" is not a standard place name; it reads as a garbled or telescoped family colloquialism built on "[у] Ивана Егорыча" ("[at] Ivan Yegorych's"), the given name and patronymic of Ivan Yegorovich Gavrilov, the Moscow merchant whose warehouse employed the father, Pavel Yegorovich, as a clerk from 1877. The companion letter (early May 1891, to the same addressee) reports the same news in unambiguous terms -- the father's release from "Gavrilov's" service -- confirming the identification here despite the corrupted spelling. Treated as the same referent, not a genuine place name, though the exact mechanics of the compression are not certain.