person
Iv. Grekov
Grekov
also: Ив. Греков
A young man from Voronezh, otherwise unidentified beyond the abbreviated first name "Iv." (presumably Ivan), who sent Chekhov his tale "Poor in Spirit" ("Нищие духом"), asking Chekhov to forward it to "Severny Vestnik" and to put in a word for him -- which Chekhov did, per (14 December 1891, to Albov). Very likely the same "apparently very young man" from Voronezh described, without a name, sending Chekhov an unsolicited novel of the identical title in (3 December 1891, to Suvorin). Distinct from the unrelated (a Don Cossack actor in Chekhov's 1889 Odessa troupe) and the fictional of "Platonov" -- a coincidence of surname only.
Reading notes
- To M. N. Albov, 14 December 1891. Moscow. §4 Iv. Grekov
A young man from Voronezh, otherwise unidentified beyond the abbreviated first name "Ив." ("Iv.," presumably Ivan) and the surname Grekov. No further biographical trace of him is given in this letter, and the translator's note on the source flags the identity as unresolved. Distinct from the unrelated actor (a Don Cossack in Chekhov's 1889 Odessa theatrical troupe) and from the fictional of "Platonov" -- a coincidence of surname only, not the same person. This is very likely the same "по-видимому, очень молодой человек" ("apparently very young man") from Voronezh whom Chekhov describes in (3 December 1891, to Suvorin, eleven days earlier) as having sent him unsolicited a 40-sheet novel manuscript titled "Нищие духом"/"Poor in Spirit" -- see and the crossref to below. If so, this letter identifies that anonymous "very young man" by name for the only time in the corpus as currently indexed.
- To G. G. Lepnev, 3 February 1892. Voronezh. §5 let Mr. Iv. Grekov know that I have arrived in Voronezh
Iv. Grekov, the young Voronezh writer whose manuscript "Poor in Spirit" Chekhov had forwarded to Severny Vestnik two months earlier (14 December 1891); Chekhov's brief stopover in Grekov's home city occasions this offer to meet, relayed through Lepnev as intermediary.