person

Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaisky

Ilovaisky

also: Иловайский

Conservative Russian historian and author of widely used, dryly conventional school history textbooks; invoked here as the dull, standard counterpart to Chekhov's own mock 'natural history' project.

Reading notes

On March §2 Ilovaisky's textbook
Dmitry Ilovaisky's dry, ubiquitous Russian school history textbooks -- cited here as the dull 'authority' behind the piece's mock scholarship.
On June and July §19 Ilovaisky
Dmitry Ilovaisky's dry, ubiquitous school history textbooks, cited here (as elsewhere in Chekhov's almanac pieces) as a mock scholarly authority for an absurd claim.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 17–18 April 1883. Moscow. §7 Ilovaisky
Dmitry Ilovaisky, a conservative historian whose dry, standard school textbooks Chekhov invokes as the dull counterpart to his own mock treatise.