person
Grigory Konstantinovich Gradovsky
Gradovsky
also: Градовский, G. K. Gradovsky
Grigory Gradovsky (1842-1915), Russian journalist and publicist active in the Petersburg press of the 1880s; named here by Chekhov, alongside Notovich, as personally repugnant to him -- a period literary-political judgment, not a slur.
Reading notes
- To N. M. Yezhov, 2 January 1892. Petersburg. §5 9 rubles will be sent to Gradovsky through Bilibin, with whom, as it happens, I shall be dining tomorrow at a tavern.
A third, smaller money errand folded into the same New Year's settling of accounts as \S4. Gradovsky and Bilibin are established figures elsewhere in the corpus; no further context is given here for why Gradovsky is owed this sum.