person
Petrovsky
also: Петровский, señor Petrovsky, сеньор Петровский
A Moscow bookseller who, through Chekhov's brother Misha, places a bulk order (fifty copies each) of ten titles of cheap popular fiction, demanding a 50% trade discount; a small concrete record of the commercial book trade underlying the humor press.
Reading notes
- Letter to N. A. Leikin, March 28, 1887 §8 Petrovsky
A Moscow bookseller who took a 50% trade discount on stock (cf. \textit{}); Chekhov contrasts giving up half the margin to a middleman like Petrovsky with the greater profitability of advertising directly.