person
Ivan Yakovlevich (the late)
Ivan Yakovlevich
also: покойный Иван Яковлевич
A deceased acquaintance invoked by Chekhov as a byword for eccentric talent, to whom he compares Dolzhenko; not otherwise identified.
Reading notes
- To M. Ye. Chekhov, 18 January 1887. Moscow. §16 He is as talented as the late
Ivan Yakovlevich.
An otherwise unidentified acquaintance, invoked here purely as a familiar point of comparison for eccentric talent -- the kind of private, in-family reference common in Chekhov's letters to relatives.