person
Ivan Vasilyevich Merzheyevsky
Merzheyevsky
also: Мержеевский, Merzheyevsky
A prominent St. Petersburg psychiatrist and forensic-medicine authority of the period; Chekhov invokes his professional field ("forensic medicine") in a joking aside and asks Leikin to forward on the running-joke letter about the philandering "Phoebus."
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 11 August 1887. Babkino. §11 Merzheyevsky
Ivan Vasilyevich Merzheyevsky, a leading St. Petersburg psychiatrist and forensic-medicine specialist; Chekhov, himself a physician, invokes his professional field in a mock-clinical aside before asking that the "Phoebus" joke letter be forwarded to him.