person
Georgy Mitrofanovich Gusopoulo
Gusopoulo
also: Гусопуло, Georgy Gusopoulo, Pantaleon, Пантелей
A relative by marriage (husband of Chekhov's cousin) living in Petersburg, to whom Chekhov addresses several brisk, business-and-family letters in the late 1880s, teasingly nicknamed 'Pantaleon' for his reluctance to visit the Chekhov family's literary acquaintances.
Reading notes
- Georgy M. Gusopoulo, January 29, 1888. Moscow. §2 Gusopoulo
Georgy Mitrofanovich Gusopoulo, a relative by marriage living in Petersburg, whom Chekhov addresses in several brisk, businesslike letters of this period.
- Georgy M. Gusopoulo, January 29, 1888. Moscow. §5 Pantaleon
A teasing nickname Chekhov applies to Gusopoulo himself here, not a reference to any fictional Pantaleon/Pantelei figure elsewhere in the corpus.