person
Golitsynsky
also: Голицинский, Golitsinsky
Author of a book Chekhov is partway through reading in connection with his Sakhalin preparations, and is about to send on to Suvorin; Chekhov gives it a mixed, mostly unflattering judgment ("I like only in places; apart from those few little spots, all the rest is water, water, and water"). Not further identified in the letter -- not to be confused with the Golitsyn Hospital or the Golitsyno rail station elsewhere in the corpus, which share the same underlying princely family name but are unrelated to this author.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 4 March 1890. Moscow. §7 Голицинского… всё остальное вода, вода и вода
Chekhov is partway through a book by Golitsynsky that he plans to pass on to Suvorin next, and gives a sharply mixed verdict: a few good passages ("I like only in places") surrounded by padding -- "water, water, and water" is Chekhov's recurring idiom (compare his self-directed complaint about Sakhalin research two sections later) for thin, diluted writing stretched to fill pages, which he notes wryly explains why such books run so thick. Not further identified in the letter; distinct from the unrelated Golitsyn Hospital and Golitsyno rail station elsewhere in this corpus, which share only the underlying princely family name.