person
Nikolai Vasilyevich Svetlov
Svetlov
also: Николай Васильевич Светлов, Н. В. Светлов, N. V. Svetlov
An actor at Fyodor Korsh's private Moscow theater who, in autumn 1888, wished to stage Eugene Scribe's play "Brazen Foreheads" (in a Russian translation controlled by Pleshcheyev) for his benefit performance; Chekhov writes to Pleshcheyev on his behalf.
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 1 October 1888. Moscow. §3 N. V. Svetlov ... Nikolai Vasilyevich Svetlov, the Korsh Theater
"N. V. Svetlov" and "Nikolai Vasilyevich Svetlov" are the same person, given first by initials and then in full for the reply address -- kept merged as one referent. An actor at the Korsh Theater seeking to stage Scribe's play for his benefit performance. Not to be confused with Svetlovidov, the fictional aging actor of the story "Kalkhas" -- a similar-sounding name but an unrelated, invented character.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 4 October 1888. Moscow. §5 Светлов
Nikolai Vasilyevich Svetlov, the Korsh Theater actor for whose benefit performance the staging of "Brass Foreheads" was proposed in; here Chekhov adds a brief personal character reference ("a good actor and a fine fellow") to the same ongoing negotiation, otherwise underspecified in this letter.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 4 October 1888. Moscow. §2 известие, которое очень не понравится Светлову
"Svetlov" is the Moscow actor at Korsh's theater whom Chekhov had just praised in the same-day letter 3-490 ("a good actor and a fine fellow") over the stalled arrangement for "Brazen Foreheads"; the same referent here, not a different bearer of the common stage name.