person
Tatishchev
also: Татищев
Tatishchev, translator of Victor Hugo's "Hernani" into Russian; per (28 January 1890), he needed the Maly Theatre's Shrovetide-week schedule for "Hernani" and reportedly received the French Republic's academic palms (per Suvorin) for the translation, alongside Sumbatov and Yermolova. In this letter (the same week) Chekhov relays Tatishchev's request, via Sumbatov, to hold a theater box (or failing that, two stalls seats) for a performance of "Hernani." Kept distinct from (a literary critic named in a different, 1888 letter, dismissed there for reflexively applying stock judgments): the surname is the only point of overlap, the roles (literary critic vs. Hugo translator/theater patron) are unrelated on the evidence available, and the corpus's own note on tatishchev-critic-1888 stresses it is unresolved pending further confirmation -- so the two are NOT merged here absent positive identifying evidence beyond the shared surname.
Reading notes
- To A. I. Sumbatov, 1890. Petersburg. §2 Tatishchev
This Tatishchev is identified via the companion letter (written the same week, also to Sumbatov, also about "Hernani") as the translator of Hugo's "Hernani" into Russian, reportedly honored by the French Republic for that work. The corpus already holds a separate, named in an unrelated 1888 letter as a literary critic dismissed for reflexively applying stock judgments -- that entity's own note flags it as unresolved pending further confirmation. The surname alone is not sufficient grounds to merge the two: nothing ties the 1888 critic to Hugo, theater patronage, or translation, so this letter's Tatishchev is tracked as a distinct entity,, rather than force-merged onto the critic.