person
Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin
Sytin
also: Сытин, И. Д. Сытин, I. D. Sytin
Moscow publisher and printer, the leading producer of cheap popular ("lubok") prints and books for a mass readership; Chekhov asks his father to buy him a Sytin devotional print of St. Varlaam.
Reading notes
- To the Chekhovs, 1891. Vienna. §10 from Sytin's
Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin, the leading Moscow publisher of cheap popular ("lubok") prints and books for a mass readership -- the obvious address for the devotional print Chekhov requests, even though he adds "or wherever you like."