person
Nikolai Khristoforovich Ketcher
Ketcher
also: Кетчер
Invoked mock-solemnly as if Rozanov had been named his 'privy councillor' -- a comic flourish rather than a real appointment; the reference plays on the stock figure of an eminent, humorless official.
Reading notes
- To P. G. Rozanov, 3 November 1884. Moscow. §5 privy councillor to Ketcher
A mock title -- 'privy councillor' (tainyi sovetnik) was a real high civil-service rank; Chekhov invents the appointment as an absurd flourish of congratulation, not a genuine honor.