person
Konstantin Shilovsky
Shilovsky
also: Константин Шиловский
A Zvenigorod landowner, amateur playwright, and librettist (co-author of the libretto for Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin), mocked here for two Spanish-themed trifles, "The Tiger Cub" and "I Wish to Be a Spaniard."
Reading notes
- Toward a Characterization of the Peoples §24 Konstantin Shilovsky
A Zvenigorod landowner and amateur playwright (later Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin librettist), mocked here for two slight Spanish-themed trifles.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 27 March 1887. Moscow. §7 the former estate of Shilovsky
The Zvenigorod-district estate of Konstantin Shilovsky, the landowner-playwright and Tchaikovsky librettist Chekhov elsewhere mocks for his Spanish-themed theatricals; here Chekhov describes the property itself, which he had seen and which was then for sale.
- To A. S. Kiselev, 8 December 1891. Moscow. §6 There's no need at all to speak with Shilovsky
Konstantin Shilovsky, a Zvenigorod-area landowner, amateur playwright, and librettist (co-author of the libretto for Tchaikovsky's \emph{Eugene Onegin}); Chekhov's advice that there is no need to consult him suggests Shilovsky had been mooted, evidently by the Kiselev family, as another possible advisor or contact for the play, a suggestion Chekhov waves off.