person
Levinsky
also: Левинский
A minor, evidently tiresome ('insipid') acquaintance who has written an article on the cremation of corpses, apparently based on something he observed in Italy, and asks Chekhov to find out from Suvorin what has become of it. Distinct from (the humor-magazine publisher who holds sixteen government posts) -- the two share only a surname and no other identifying detail links them.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 20 November 1889. Moscow. §5 the insipid Levinsky, who asked me to find out from you the fate of his article... on the cremation of corpses, which he observed somewhere, in Italy I believe
This Levinsky is distinct from the unrelated humor-magazine publisher who appears earlier in the corpus (noted there for holding sixteen government posts); the two share only a surname. Chekhov's dismissive 'insipid' ('пресный') sets the tone for the whole item, which he treats as a favor grudgingly relayed rather than a subject of any real interest, though he allows that cremation itself is 'an interesting subject.'