person
Rakovsky
also: Раковский
Owner of a 400-desyatina estate near Bogimovo, in three parcels, that Chekhov describes pricing out for Suvorin -- asking 35 thousand roubles for the whole, but willing to let the 150-desyatina core parcel (with the manor house and mill the two had evidently visited together) go for 23 thousand, or 20 at the outside; otherwise unidentified.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 4 June 1891. Bogimovo. §3 Rakovsky wants 35 thousand for the whole estate
Owner of a neighboring 400-desyatina estate (a desyatina is a pre-revolutionary Russian land measure of about 2.7 acres), evidently priced out as a possible purchase or rental for Suvorin after his visit to Bogimovo; otherwise unidentified.