person
Khodykov
also: Ходыков
FICTIONAL CHARACTER in Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky's play "Symphony", singled out by Chekhov as the best-realized role in the play ("done splendidly"); Chekhov suggests the actor Pavel Svobodin for the part. Not a real person.
Reading notes
- To M. I. Chaykovsky, 16 February 1890. Moscow. §6 Khodykov is done splendidly, the uncle is a very dear brute...
Khodykov is a character in "Symphony," singled out here as the play's best-realized figure -- praise that carries through to \S7, where Chekhov names a specific actor, Pavel Svobodin, for the part. The unnamed "uncle" mentioned in the same breath is not otherwise identified in the letter and is not given a separate entity.