Grebyonka

Author whose collected works ("Сочинения Гребенки") Chekhov asks Suvorin to send, along with a book by Golitsynsky, to Varvara Ivanovna Ikskul via her address on Alarchin Bridge -- an errand undertaken on the strength of a promise to act as her patron. Not otherwise identified or discussed in the letter; presumably Yevgeny Pavlovich Grebyonka (1812-1848), a Ukrainian-Russian writer and poet best known for the song lyric "Ochi chornye" ("Dark Eyes") and for prose fiction in both Russian and Ukrainian, though the letter itself gives no biographical detail and the identification is not confirmed by internal evidence.