person
Nikolai Mikhailovich Baranov
General Baranov
also: генерала Баранова, General Baranov, Baranov
Nikolai Mikhailovich Baranov (1837-1901), a former naval officer and Russo-Turkish War hero who served as governor of Nizhny Novgorod province from 1882 to 1897; during the 1891-92 famine he was among the first officials to publicly acknowledge its severity and organized relief efforts, enlisting outside writers and observers (notably Vladimir Korolenko). Chekhov's autumn 1891 famine-relief travel down the Volga and by road was to take him into Baranov's province. Distinct from an unrelated pedagogical-textbook author of the same surname cited elsewhere in the corpus.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 22 January 1892. Moscow. §4 Был у Баранова
Nikolai Mikhailovich Baranov, Governor of Nizhny Novgorod province, previously established in this corpus at (\S5), where he supplied Suvorin with the land captain Yegorov's address. Here Chekhov reports a direct, hospitable visit during his own relief trip: breakfast and dinner at the governor's residence, and a ride to the station in Baranov's own horses -- continuity of the same working relationship between Chekhov's famine-relief efforts and the provincial administration.
- To Ye. P. Yegorov, 6 February 1892. Voronezh. §4 he works as hard as Baranov
Nikolai Mikhailovich Baranov, governor of Nizhny Novgorod province, whom Chekhov had praised in earlier famine-relief correspondence as one of the first officials to publicly acknowledge the famine's severity. Here Chekhov uses him as the standard against which he measures Kurovsky's diligence.