person
Grigory Alexandrovich Machtet
Machtet
also: Мачтет, Григорий Мачтет
Russian populist writer and journalist of the period, cited here by Chekhov as a product of the Goltsev/"Russkaya mysl" editorial circle then enjoying great success in Moscow -- offered as evidence for Chekhov's unease about that circle's growing influence over Moscow's literary taste.
Reading notes
- A. N. Maslov (Bezhetsky), 7 April 1888. Moscow. §5 Machtet
Grigory Machtet, cited as a product ("nursling") of the Goltsev school then riding high in Moscow, offered as evidence for Chekhov's claim that the circle is warping the city's literary taste.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 24 July 1891. Bogimovo. §5 He's our own Machtet, only a little cleverer
Grigory Alexandrovich Machtet, a Russian populist (narodnik) writer already known to Chekhov and Suvorin as a byword for earnest, second-rate, moralizing fiction; invoked here as the nearest domestic equivalent to Rod's manner.