person
Alexander Alexandrovich, known as Sasik
Sasik
also: Александр Александрович, Сасик
A figure in or connected to the Lensky household, addressed here with a mock-grandiose flourish ("the most pious, most autocratic Alexander Alexandrovich") echoing formal address to a tsar, paired with the diminutive pet-name "Sasik." Not identifiable with confidence from this letter alone -- most plausibly a family member (a young son) or a household pet of the Lenskys, but the joke's precise target is left unresolved rather than force-identified.
Reading notes
- To A. P. Lensky, 27 September 1889. Moscow. §9 the most pious, most autocratic
Alexander Alexandrovich, known as Sasik.
"благочестивейшему, самодержавнейшему" -- grandiose titling that echoes formal address to a tsar, comically paired with the diminutive pet-name "Sasik" for an unidentified figure in or connected to the Lensky household. The identity is not resolvable from this letter alone -- most plausibly a family member or household pet -- and is flagged here as genuinely unidentified rather than force-identified.
- To A. P. Lensky, 8 December 1889. Moscow. §5 Sasik
The recurring household pet-name for an unidentified figure -- most plausibly a child or family member -- in or connected to the Lensky household, greeted alongside Lidia Nikolaevna in earlier letters of this run.