Nikolai Alekseyevich Lyubimov

N. A. Lyubimov (1830-1897), physicist, conservative publicist, and longtime associate of Mikhail Katkov at the Russian Messenger and Moskovskiye Vedomosti; named here alongside Pobedonostsev among those who, per the secondhand anecdote Chekhov relays, showed the Tsar Tolstoy's suppressed essay "Nicholas the Stick" to justify their hostility toward Tolstoy after "The Kreutzer Sonata" had found favor -- ironically styled one of the "cherubim and seraphim." Distinct from, an unrelated deacon elsewhere in the corpus who shares only the surname, and from, that deacon's son.