person
A. N. Kanaev
Kanaev
also: Александр Николаевич Канаев, Alexander Nikolaevich Kanaev
A Petersburg acquaintance of Chekhov's and the addressee of this letter, interested in Moscow theatrical gossip and enlisted here for a personal errand (forwarding an address to a general).
Reading notes
- To A. N. Kanayev, 26 March 1883. Moscow. §4 Alexander Nikolaevich
The letter's addressee, A. N. Kanaev, a Petersburg acquaintance and theatre enthusiast with whom Chekhov corresponded about theatrical gossip and personal errands (the "general's address" of section 5).