person
Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maclay
Miklukho-Maclay
also: Миклуха-Маклай, Miklouho-Maclay
Russian ethnographer and explorer (1846-1888) famous for his years living among the indigenous peoples of New Guinea's Maclay Coast; invoked here as a comic self-comparison for Chekhov's own role as an amused outside observer of the Kravtsov household.
Reading notes
- To the Chekhovs, 30 April 1887. Ragozina Balka. §9 a Miklukho-Maklai
Nikolai Miklukho-Maclay, the Russian explorer famous for living among the indigenous peoples of New Guinea; Chekhov jokingly casts himself as a similar detached ethnographic observer among the Kravtsov household.