person
Mikhail Pavlovich Sablin
Sablin
also: Саблин, M. P. Sablin
Mikhail Pavlovich Sablin (1842-1898), journalist and one of the co-editors/shareholders of the liberal Moscow daily Russkiye Vedomosti (The Russian Gazette), and a personal friend of Chekhov's; here Chekhov plans to route an inquiry to the paper's editor Sobolevsky indirectly, through Sablin, rather than approach Sobolevsky -- whom he does not know personally -- directly.
Reading notes
- To K. S. Barantsevich, 9 February 1890. Moscow. §6 one of Sablin's partners
Mikhail Pavlovich Sablin, journalist and co-editor/shareholder at \emph{Russkiye Vedomosti} alongside Sobolevsky, and a personal friend of Chekhov's; Chekhov plans to reach him that evening at the Assembly of the Nobility ball, or fall back on a letter the next day.