person
Nikolai Alexandrovich Lavretsky
N. Lavretsky
also: Н. Лаврецкого, N. Lavretsky, Rakshanin
Pen name of the Russian critic and translator Nikolai Alexandrovich Lavretsky, born Rakshanin, used by Chekhov as journalistic shorthand for the sort of dramatic criticism he urges Suvorin not to abandon ("I would give up neither the theater, nor dramatic criticism, nor N. Lavretsky!"). First appearance in this corpus's translated letters. Distinct from the unrelated fictional (Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky of Turgenev's "A Nest of the Gentry"), which shares only the surname.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 4 January 1889. Moscow. §6 I would give up neither the theater, nor dramatic criticism, nor N. Lavretsky!
"N. Lavretsky" (source "Н. Лаврецкого") is the pen name of the critic and translator Nikolai Alexandrovich Lavretsky (born Rakshanin), used here as journalistic shorthand for the sort of dramatic criticism Chekhov urges Suvorin to keep writing under that byline. First appearance of this entity in this corpus's translated letters; distinct from the unrelated fictional (Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky of Turgenev's "A Nest of the Gentry") that shares only the surname.