person
Mikhailov
also: Михайлова
A popular novelist of "new people" fiction, cited only generically as the author whose novels shaped Dr. Lvov's black-and-white moral categories in "Ivanov." The reference is programmatic rather than to a specific identifiable title; catalogued as an allusion to a fictional-hero type rather than pinned to one work. Distinct from the unrelated fictional estate-owner "Mikhailov" in this corpus's story "Chuzhaya beda" and from the real journalist A. Mikhailov.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 30 December 1888. Moscow. §12 He was raised on Mikhailov's novels
NEW ENTITY -- almost certainly a reference to a popular novelist of "new people" fiction whose work is credited with shaping Lvov's black-and-white moral categories. The reference is generic and programmatic rather than to a specific identifiable title, and is catalogued as an allusion to a fictional-hero type rather than pinned to one work. Distinct from the unrelated fictional estate-owner "Mikhailov" in this corpus's story "Chuzhaya beda" and from the real journalist A. Mikhailov.