person
Alexander Alexeyevich Pleshcheyev
Alexander Alexeyevich (Pleshcheyev's son)
also: Александр Алексеевич, Ваш Александр) Алексеевич)
Alexei Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev's son; here the relay for a letter from his father, quoting lines from it back to Chekhov about Saltykov and the overdue novella for "Severny Vestnik." Distinct from Pleshcheyev's other son, Nikolai Alekseevich, mentioned elsewhere in the correspondence.
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 9 April 1888. Moscow. §4 your Alexander Alexeyevich
Pleshcheyev's son, Alexander Alexeyevich, here relaying his father's letter -- distinct from Pleshcheyev's other son, Nikolai Alekseevich, mentioned elsewhere in the correspondence (e.g.); the Russian possessive ("Ваш Александр) Алексеевич)") makes explicit that this is the addressee's own son, not an unrelated third party.
- To N. A. Leikin, 23 April 1888. Moscow. §6 Alexander Alexeyevich Pleshcheyev was at our place not long ago.
The son of the poet Alexei Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev, not the poet himself; he is the one who brought Chekhov the story about the hundred-rouble bonus, speaking in front of Chekhov's brothers.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 27 August 1888. Sumy. §9 your son
Singular: Alexander Alexeyevich Pleshcheyev, the son who has written the "big play" -- the same son already established in the corpus as literarily and journalistically active, including as Chekhov's relay to "Severny Vestnik." Distinct from the very next sentence's plural "your sons"/"them," which broadens to speak of both Pleshcheyev sons collectively.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 27 August 1888. Sumy. §9 your sons
See the note at for this same locator: the plural "your sons" covers both of Pleshcheyev's sons collectively, including Alexander (the playwright of the sentence just before), not only Nikolai.