person
Nikolai Afanasyevich Khlopov
Khlopov
also: Н. А. Хлопов, N. A. Khlopov, Nikolai Afanasyevich
An aspiring writer, otherwise little documented, who sent Chekhov a short story about a village sexton named Iona for comment; this letter is Chekhov's detailed line-by-line editorial critique of that story, addressed to him as a would-be literary debutant.
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 23 February 1888. Moscow. §5 московского литератора Н. А. Хлопова
Nikolai Afanasyevich Khlopov, the timid, little-known Moscow writer whose story Chekhov had already critiqued in detail in a separate letter; here Chekhov forwards the manuscript on Khlopov's behalf, asking Pleshcheev to try to place it.