person
Ivan Nikolaevich Sakharov
Sakharov
also: Иван Николаевич Сахаров, I. N. Sakharov
The addressee of this brief 6 February 1891 letter of thanks and practical follow-up: an intermediary helping Chekhov arrange the shipment of donated books to Sakhalin, part of the library-building effort Chekhov took up after his journey to the penal colony. Not otherwise identified in the letter itself, and not attested elsewhere in this corpus under this name; distinct from the unrelated painter Sakharov and from Elizaveta Konstantinovna Sakharova, who appear in earlier, unconnected letters and share only a common Russian surname.
Reading notes
- To I. N. Sakharov, 6 February 1891. Moscow. §3 Dear Ivan Nikolaevich
Ivan Nikolaevich Sakharov, the addressee, otherwise unattested in this corpus and clearly an intermediary in the Sakhalin book-shipment effort rather than a family friend; see the headnote for the explicit distinction from the unrelated painter Sakharov and Elizaveta Konstantinovna Sakharova of the earlier, unconnected letters, and.