person
Dr. Pokrovsky
also: доктора Покровского
Named in a newspaper classified advertisement (Russkie Vedomosti) that Chekhov quotes and mocks, as one of several public moralists (with Goltsev, Sikorsky, and Tolstoy) whose pedagogical views a prospective governess must share. A common surname; not securely identifiable from this letter alone. Distinct from the unrelated, likewise-unidentified and from, the Taganrog priest.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 11 March 1889. Moscow. §10 Dr. Pokrovsky
Named within the quoted advertisement itself as one of the pedagogical authorities a prospective governess must be versed in. A common surname; not securely identifiable from this letter alone. Left unresolved and distinct from the corpus's other unidentified Pokrovskys.