person
Nikolai Gilyarov-Platonov
Gilyarov
also: г. Гиляров
Editor of the newspaper Sovremennye Izvestiya and a noted conservative publicist of the period.
Reading notes
- On March §12 Gilyarov-Platonov
Nikolai Gilyarov-Platonov, a real conservative Moscow journalist and newspaper editor of Chekhov's day, dragged into the mock-classical festival purely for the pun on his name.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 October 1887. Moscow. §14 Gilyarov
Nikolai Gilyarov-Platonov, editor of Sovremennye Izvestiya, whose funeral Chekhov reports attending -- distinct from the similarly named journalist Vladimir Gilyarovsky ("Gilyai"), who appears in the same passage publishing the book "Slum People."