person
Viktor Petrovich Ostrogorsky
Ostrogorsky
also: В. П. Острогорский, V. P. Ostrogorsky
Viktor Petrovich Ostrogorsky (1840-1902), well-known Russian pedagogue, literary historian, and children's-education writer (long associated with the journal Detskoye Chteniye and, from 1892, its editor), named here as a donor to the Sakhalin school libraries alongside Baroness Ikskul and the publisher Pavlenkov -- Chekhov notes drily that Ostrogorsky, "unwilling to yield either to the Baroness or to Pavlenkov," sends his own works (adaptations/studies including "Zriny," "Roland," "King Lear," "William Tell," and others) for the school collection. Not to be confused with (A. K. Ostrogorskaya, an unrelated dedicatee named in an early juvenile work) or with the geography-textbook author Putsikovich mentioned earlier in this same letter.
Reading notes
- To V. O. Kononovich, 19 February 1891. Moscow. §95 В. П. Острогорский, не желая уступить ни бар Икскулъ, ни Павленкову
Viktor Petrovich Ostrogorsky (newly identified for this letter), a well-known pedagogue and literary-education writer, is introduced with a small joke of competitive philanthropy -- \"not wishing to yield either to the Baroness or to Pavlenkov\" -- before donating eight of his own works, mostly adaptations/studies of European classics (\"Zriny,\" \"Roland,\" \"King Lear,\" \"William Tell,\" \"A Winter's Tale\") aimed at school audiences.