person
Leonid Ivanovich Gradov-Sokolov
Gradov-Sokolov
also: Градов-Соколов, Gradov-Sokolov
Popular Moscow comic actor for whom Chekhov, in the secret recesses of his soul, originally intended the monologue "On the Harm of Tobacco" as a vehicle, before time pressure led him to send the rushed result to the Peterburgskaya Gazeta instead.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Lazarev, 15 November 1887. Moscow. §6 Gradov
Leonid Ivanovich Gradov-Sokolov, a popular Moscow comic actor, one of the Korsh Theater performers Chekhov wants a part written for.
- To A. N. Maslov, October 1888. Moscow. §2 Gradov-Sokolov
Leonid Ivanovich Gradov-Sokolov, the popular Korsh-theater comic actor already attested in this corpus under this same hyphenated form and, in the shorter form "Gradov," as the miscast leading man of Shcheglov's "The Summer Husband" -- one recurring person, not the journalist Grigory Gradovsky named in, a different man entirely.