person
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy
Kramskoy
also: Крамской, Крамского
Ivan Kramskoy (1837-1887), leading Russian realist painter and a founder of the Peredvizhniki (Wanderers), who had died the previous year; Chekhov is reading a posthumous edition/memorial volume about him (sent by Suvorin) and praises his intelligence and mind, proposing the edition include Botkin's medical account of his final illness.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 3 April 1888. Moscow. §5 Kramskoy
Ivan Kramskoy (1837-1887), the leading Russian realist painter and a founder of the Peredvizhniki (Wanderers), who had died the year before; Suvorin had sent Chekhov a book about him, which Chekhov is reading and praising here.