person
Tatishchev
also: Татищев
A retired diplomat who attached himself to Chekhov's Russian party in Paris during the April/May 1891 trip; not otherwise identified in this corpus. Kept distinct from (a literary critic named in an unrelated 1888 letter) and (Victor Hugo's translator into Russian, named in an unrelated 1890 letter about a theater box for "Hernani"): the surname is the only point of overlap and the role here (a retired diplomat traveling in the Paris colony of Russians) is unrelated to either on the evidence available, so the three are not merged absent positive identifying evidence beyond the shared surname.
Reading notes
- To the Chekhovs, 1891. Paris. §7 A retired diplomat, Tatishchev
Not otherwise identified in this corpus; the Tatishchev surname belonged to an old Russian noble family with several branches in the diplomatic and civil service, and this retired-diplomat Tatishchev is a different person from the literary critic and the Hugo translator of the same surname who appear in unrelated 1888 and 1890 letters elsewhere in the corpus -- kept as a distinct, unresolved entity rather than merged on surname alone.