person
Mikhail Mikhailovich Chekhov
M. M. Chekhov
also: Михаил Михаилович Чехов, M. M. Chekhov, М. М. Чехов, Миша, Misha
A cousin of Anton Chekhov, son of his uncle Mitrofan Yegorovich; the addressee of one of the earliest surviving Chekhov letters, opening a correspondence between the two young men.
Reading notes
- To M. M. Chekhov, 30 September 1882. Moscow. §4 Mikhail Mikhailovich
A cousin of Anton Chekhov, son of his uncle Mitrofan Yegorovich; the addressee of one of the earliest surviving Chekhov letters, opening a correspondence between the two young men.
- To M. M. Chekhov, 7 December 1876. Taganrog. §4 Mikhail Mikhailovich
Mikhail Mikhailovich Chekhov, a cousin (son of Chekhov's uncle Mitrofan Yegorovich) living apart from the Taganrog household; the addressee of this, one of the earliest surviving Chekhov letters, written when Anton was sixteen.
- To M. M. Chekhov, 8 February 1877. Taganrog. §2 Misha
Mikhail Mikhailovich Chekhov, Anton's cousin (son of his uncle Mitrofan Yegorovich Chekhov), the letter's addressee and the 'venerable mathematician' teased throughout.
- To M. M. Chekhov, 9 June 1877. Taganrog. §4 Mikhail Mikhailovich
Mikhail Mikhailovich Chekhov, Anton's cousin (son of his uncle Mitrofan Yegorovich Chekhov) and the letter's addressee, teased here as a 'venerable mathematician' in the family's running comic register.
- To M. M. Chekhov, 29 July 1877. Taganrog. §3 Misha
Mikhail Mikhailovich Chekhov, Anton's cousin (son of his uncle Mitrofan Yegorovich), living in Moscow and the addressee of this letters series. Not to be confused with Anton's younger brother, also Mikhail ("Misha").
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 13 October 1888. Moscow. §10 M. M. Chokhov is marrying a merchant's daughter
"M. M. Chokhov" here names a real relative -- Mikhail Mikhailovich Chekhov, Anton's cousin (son of uncle Mitrofan Yegorovich, addressee of the family's earliest surviving letter) -- using the family's joking surname-variant "Chokhov" for him, spelled as in the source. This is a distinct use from the same "Chokhov"/"Chokhovs" wordplay established in (loc 6-8), where it functions as a generic mocking epithet for a type of fool with no named, identifiable referent (entity_id left null there). Here, by contrast, "M. M." pins the joking name to an actual, identifiable person and a real piece of family news (his upcoming marriage); the two uses of "Chokhov" should not be conflated as the same reference.