person
Ippolit Lyutostansky
Lyutostansky
also: Лютостанский
A real and notorious antisemitic pamphleteer of the period; his cameo here performing a crude conjuring trick carries the story's one overtly antisemitic caricature, reflecting the casual prejudice of some contemporary popular entertainment.
Reading notes
- To S. Kramayev, 8 May 1881. Moscow. §5 Lyutostansky
Ippolit Lyutostansky, a defrocked priest and notorious antisemitic pamphleteer of the period, named approvingly here as an ally in the letter's crude antisemitic jest.
- To S. A. Andreyevsky, 25 December 1891. Moscow. §4 Lyutostansky case
Ippolit Lyutostansky, the real and notorious antisemitic pamphleteer (first attested in this corpus at the story tayny-sta-soroka-chetyreh-katastrof). Andreyevsky, as a practicing courtroom lawyer and legal writer, had published an account of a Lyutostansky court case among his collected pieces; Chekhov recalls reading it aloud in the country the previous summer, in "poetic surroundings," with a long conversation about Andreyevsky following -- part of the warm personal memory of Andreyevsky's books that frames this letter before Chekhov turns to his own inability to write the serious critical response he feels the books deserve.
- The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes §54 Lyutostansky
Ippolit Lyutostansky, a real and notorious antisemitic pamphleteer of the period; his cameo performing a crude conjuring trick carries the story's one overtly antisemitic caricature, reflecting the casual prejudice of some contemporary popular entertainment rather than an endorsement by the narrator.