person
Ivan Alexandrych
also: Иван Александрыч
An old government forester and self-taught philosopher near the railway line, in "Lights" (1888), whom Ananyev cites as an example of a pessimism earned through age and suffering: watching railway workers at their labor, he is moved to tears by the thought that "these remarkable people will die."
Reading notes
- Lights §175 the government forester Ivan Alexandrych
Ananyev's example of pessimism he does respect: an old, widely read self-taught philosopher who, watching railway workers at their labor, is moved to tears by the simple thought that "these remarkable people will die" -- offered as a contrast to the self-regarding, secondhand pessimism of "virtuosos" like the young Ananyev and, by implication, von Steinberg.