person
Kurovsky
also: Куровский, Губернатор Куровский, Governor Kurovsky
Governor of Voronezh province at the time of the 1891-92 famine, described by Chekhov as intelligent and sincere, working as hard as Baranov. A civilian rather than military appointee -- which Chekhov notes gives a governor more freedom of action -- Kurovsky organized a horse-relief scheme modeled on Yegorov's method: buying up horses (some 400 head by this letter) and issuing them on credit to peasants left without draft animals, who worked off the cost hauling grain over the following season. Distinct from the fictional lawyer in the story "Doktor."
Reading notes
- To Ye. P. Yegorov, 6 February 1892. Voronezh. §3 Governor Kurovsky buys up horses
Governor Kurovsky of Voronezh province, whom Chekhov describes here as running his horse-relief operation "by your method" -- explicitly modeled on a scheme of Yegorov's own. By this letter Kurovsky has bought up some 400 head.
- To Ye. P. Yegorov, 25 February 1892. Moscow. §12 The Voronezh governor Kurovsky told me
Governor Kurovsky of Voronezh province, previously described at length in as running a horse-relief loan scheme explicitly modeled on a method of Yegorov's own. This closing postscript passes along a piece of practical bureaucratic information -- that a formal record must be drawn up whenever a relief horse dies -- that Yegorov had evidently asked about, presumably in connection with that same scheme.