person
Ivan Alekseyevich Belousov
Belousov
also: Иван Алексеевич Белоусов, И. А. Белоусов, Ivan Alekseyevich Belousov
A self-taught "poet from the people" (a cobbler-turned-writer) and the addressee of this letter, to whom Chekhov responds with detailed, encouraging line-criticism after Belousov sent him his newly published verse translation of Shevchenko.
Reading notes
- To I. A. Belousov, 3 August 1887. Babkino. §3 Ivan Alekseyevich
Ivan Alekseyevich Belousov, a self-taught "poet from the people" (a cobbler-turned-writer) who had sent Chekhov his newly published verse translation of Shevchenko; the two were not yet close, and this letter is Chekhov's careful, encouraging response to an admirer's literary debut.