person
V. A. Wagner
Wagner
also: В. А. Вагнер, V. A. Wagner
The addressee of this letter, recorded in the source only as "V. A. Wagner." The initials do not match Nikolai Petrovich Wagner, the zoologist and Chekhov's Bogimovo houseguest who appears under his own initials elsewhere in the 1891 correspondence, and nothing in the letter's content ties the two men together. A real zoologist named Vladimir Alexandrovich Wagner, whose initials would also fit "V. A. Wagner," is separately entered in this corpus as on the strength of an unrelated mock-theatrical juvenile poem; this edition does not merge that entity with the present addressee, since the editorial record for this letter gives no corroborating detail (no household names, no institutional affiliation) linking the two beyond the coincidence of initials. The addressee's household appears to include a Maria Apollonovna and a Polina Nikolayevna, to whom Chekhov sends his respects.
Reading notes
- To V. A. Vagner, 10 October 1891. Moscow. §1 10 October 1891. Moscow.
The letter's heading names no addressee; the source records the recipient only as "V. A. Wagner" in its title line (\S"В. А. ВАГНЕРУ"). This is a distinct, otherwise-unidentified correspondent, not Nikolai Petrovich Wagner, the zoologist and Chekhov's houseguest at Bogimovo that summer, whose initials do not match and who appears elsewhere in the 1891 correspondence under his own name (see the letter to Suvorin of 28 August). This corpus separately holds an entity for a real zoologist named Vladimir Alexandrovich Wagner, seeded from an unrelated mock-theatrical juvenile poem; the coincidence of initials is noted but not treated as an identification, since nothing in this letter's content -- no household detail, no institutional reference -- corroborates a link. The addressee's household appears to include a Maria Apollonovna and a Polina Nikolayevna (\S5), to whom Chekhov sends respects.