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Vyacheslav Avksentyevich Manassein
Manassein
also: Манассеин, проф. Манассеин, Professor Manassein
Vyacheslav Avksentyevich Manassein (1841-1901), a prominent Russian internist and professor of medicine, and editor of the medical weekly "Vrach" ("The Physician"); Chekhov reports him renting a dacha near the Lintvaryov estate at Luka and jokes that he will be intimidated by Manassein's learning at future medical consultations there -- "He is an editor, after all!" being an ironic nod to Manassein's authority in the profession Chekhov himself straddles as both doctor and writer.
Reading notes
- To Ye. M. Lintvareva, 17 April 1889. Moscow. §5 Luka Professor Manassein has rented himself a dacha
Vyacheslav Avksentyevich Manassein, a prominent Russian internist and editor of the medical weekly "Vrach" ("The Physician"); Chekhov's joke -- "He is an editor, after all!" -- plays on the fact that Chekhov himself was, at this time, straddling the roles of doctor and man of letters, and feels doubly outranked by so eminent a medical-journal editor.