person
Nikolai Gerasimovich Pomyalovsky
Pomyalovsky
also: Помяловский, Помяловским
Russian novelist (1835-1863) best known for "Seminary Sketches" and "Molotov," an early realist chronicler of the petty-bourgeois (meshchanstvo) milieu; Chekhov compares Shcheglov to him here as a fellow idealizer of that drab, ordinary world and its small happinesses.
Reading notes
- To I. L. Leontyev, 22 February 1888. Moscow. §3 sooner compare you with Pomyalovsky
Nikolai Pomyalovsky, an earlier realist novelist known for chronicling the petty-bourgeois (meshchanstvo) milieu; Chekhov proposes him, not Gogol, Tolstoy, or Dostoevsky, as Shcheglov's true point of comparison.