person
Sokovnin
also: Соковнин
Named only in \S5, where Chekhov jokingly recalls Sokovnin proclaiming him "a great man" over dinner, a compliment Chekhov deflects with self-deprecating irony about his slow progress on his novel. Not otherwise identified within this letter; no fuller biographical identification has yet been established elsewhere in this corpus -- flagged as a new entity pending cross-reference in later letters.
Reading notes
- To V. A. Tikhonov, 31 May 1889. Sumy. §5 Sokovnin
Named only here in this letter, praising Chekhov as a "great man" at some dinner Chekhov treats with self-deprecating irony; not otherwise identified in this letter -- flagged as a new entity pending cross-reference elsewhere in the corpus.
- To V. A. Goltsev, 8 November 1889. Moscow. §5 My Petersburg acquaintance N. M. Sokovnin, passing through Moscow, asked me to send the enclosed poem to the editorial office of Russkaya Mysl.
The letter's sole piece of business: Chekhov acting as a mere conduit for Sokovnin's poem, forwarding it to Russkaya Mysl without personal comment or endorsement -- the same Sokovnin met at Chekhov's own rooms two months earlier via P. N. Ostrovsky (see, \S7; crossref established below).
- To M. I. Chaykovsky, 17 January 1890. Petersburg. §3 send it on to N. M. Sokovnin, who lives
on Vasilyevsky Island, 1st Line, house No. 38.
N. M. Sokovnin, the Petersburg landowner and acquaintance of Chekhov's already on record in this corpus at (where P. N. Ostrovsky brings him to Chekhov's rooms) and (where Chekhov forwards a poem of his to \emph{Russkaya Mysl}); this is the same Sokovnin, his Vasilyevsky Island address given here for the first time so that Modest Ilyich can find him directly. The address itself -- 1st Line, house No. 38 -- is recorded as a plain routing detail for the book's circulation, not independently significant.