person
Savich
also: Савич
A colleague or acquaintance of Chekhov's, described here as having "broken free" ("выскочил") to help organize famine relief in Nizhny Novgorod province, working alongside the land captain Yevgraf Petrovich Yegorov on the ground; not otherwise identified by given name or patronymic in this letter, and the joke refrain "Savich has broken free" recurs three times (\S6, \S9) as a running shorthand for the relief effort's progress.
Reading notes
- To N. M. Lintvareva, 14 December 1891. Moscow. §6 Savich all the same has broken
free.
Savich, a colleague or acquaintance otherwise unidentified in the corpus, whose having "broken free" (\foreignlanguage{russian}{"выскочил"}, literally "jumped out/free") to help with famine relief becomes a running refrain in this letter, repeated at \S6 (twice) and \S9; the idiom suggests someone freed from other obligations, or perhaps from illness or inertia like Chekhov's own, to take an active hand in the relief effort alongside the land captain Yegorov on the ground in Nizhny Novgorod province.