person
Konstantin Varlamov
Varlamov (actor)
also: Варламов, К. А. Варламов, Konstantin Alexandrovich Varlamov
Konstantin Alexandrovich Varlamov (1848-1915), one of the most beloved comic actors of the Imperial Alexandrinsky Theatre, celebrated across his career for warmth and comic mastery. In "The Critic" the noble father boasts he refused an introduction to Varlamov -- an absurd, self-important refusal by a drunken minor actor, not a real slight against Varlamov's reputation. Distinct from the earlier-registered, the composer Alexander Varlamov (1801-1848), a different historical figure of an earlier generation.
Reading notes
- The Critic §29 Varlamov
Konstantin Alexandrovich Varlamov (1848-1915) was one of the best-loved comic actors of the Imperial Alexandrinsky stage, spoken of with real affection by contemporaries and by Chekhov himself in his letters. The noble father's boast that he refused an introduction to Varlamov is an absurd, self-aggrandizing detail meant to reveal the narrator's own pettiness, not a real slight against Varlamov's reputation.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 4 May 1889. Sumy. §5 I had promised Varlamov to write a
vaudeville for him.
Konstantin Alexandrovich Varlamov, the celebrated comic actor of the Imperial Alexandrinsky Theatre, for whom Chekhov wrote and same-day sent off a one-act vaudeville; the specific vaudeville is not named in this letter and is flagged for cross-reference against later letters.
- To I. L. Leontyev, 6 May 1889. Sumy. §7 Varlamov
Konstantin Alexandrovich Varlamov, the actor for whom Chekhov had promised, the previous winter, to adapt one of his stories into a play; distinct from the earlier-registered, the composer Alexander Varlamov.
- To A. P. Lensky, 8 December 1889. Moscow. §3 Varlamov
Konstantin Alexandrovich Varlamov, the celebrated comic actor, here enlisted by Karatygina as an informal intermediary ("I set Varlamov loose on Krivenko") rather than appearing in any theatrical or literary capacity.