person
Konstantin Apollonovich Skalkovsky
Skalkovsky
also: Скальковский, К. А. Скальковский
Publicist, mining engineer, and prolific author on travel and social topics; Chekhov encloses a wish-list of books he would like obtained from Skalkovsky via Suvorin.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 24 July 1891. Bogimovo. §9 in Skalkovsky's department
Konstantin Apollonovich Skalkovsky, a mining engineer and publicist who also headed a department of the Ministry of State Domains -- Chekhov's puzzlement is at the idea of a Pleshcheyev son taking a post there, an incongruous pairing of literary and bureaucratic worlds.