person
Mudry
also: Мудрый, Мудрым
The self-described writer and translator-from-Russian whose letter to Chekhov is forwarded, with dry mockery, to Ya. A. Korneyev in -- Chekhov ironically proposes it be anthologized as a "specimen of the purest Russian language," the joke turning on its evidently poor or affected prose despite its author's claimed literary credentials. "Mudry" (literally "the Wise One") is treated as a proper name in the source, but reads as a comic sobriquet or nickname; not otherwise identified in the consulted source or corpus. FLAGGED as possibly pseudonymous per the translator's note.
Reading notes
- To Ya. A. Korneyev, October 1889. Moscow. §3 Mudry
Renders "Мудрым" ("Mudry," literally "the Wise One"), the author of the enclosed letter Chekhov is forwarding. The source treats "Mudry" as a proper name/surname, but it reads as a comic sobriquet or nickname -- ironically apt, since the joke of \S3 turns on this supposed "writer" and "translator"'s letter being (implicitly) clumsy or ungrammatical Russian, the opposite of "wise." FLAG: possibly pseudonymous; not otherwise identified in the consulted source or corpus. Treated here as a distinct, uncertain entity rather than merged with any other figure.