Archpriest Filosof Ornatsky

An archpriest (протоиерей) whose missionary speech on the forced conversion of Siberian native peoples ("инородцы") is the subject of Chekhov's brother Alexander's credulous report; Chekhov mocks both the speech's self-congratulatory tone and its coercive undertone ("read: by force"). Likely Fr. Filosof Ornatsky, a prominent contemporary St. Petersburg missionary and church figure, though the letter alone does not confirm the identification beyond the surname.