person
Proporyev
also: Пропорьев
One of a trio of stock "men of acquisition" (villain-businessman) character types from contemporary melodrama named by Chekhov as examples of the crude moral stereotypes that shaped Dr. Lvov's black-and-white worldview in "Ivanov." Reads as a generic or invented representative name rather than a reference to a specific identifiable play; catalogued as an illustrative type-name. Unrelated to the like-named role in Prince Sumbatov's play "Chains" elsewhere in this corpus -- the names coincide but refer to different theatrical contexts.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 30 December 1888. Moscow. §12 "men of acquisition" (Proporyev, Okhlyabyev, Navarygin, and so forth)
NEW ENTITIES -- Proporyev, Okhlyabyev, and Navarygin are named by Chekhov as stock "men of acquisition" (villain-businessman) character types from contemporary melodrama, illustrating the crude moral stereotypes Lvov has absorbed from the stage. These read as generic or invented representative names rather than references to specific identifiable plays, and are catalogued as illustrative type-names, not pursued as real titles. NOTE: this "Proporyev" is unrelated to the like-named role in Prince Sumbatov's play "Chains" elsewhere in this corpus -- the names coincide but refer to different theatrical contexts and must not be conflated.