person
Vladimir Petrovich
also: Владимир Петрович, Владимира Петровича
A recently deceased acquaintance of Chekhov and of Maria Vladimirovna Kiseleva, mourned here in a passage of unusual gravity: Chekhov says he loved him, meant to write Maria Vladimirovna a letter of condolence about the death, but stopped himself on the reflection that all of us will die as Vladimir Petrovich did and that no condolence can undo what is beyond mending. Identified by given name and patronymic only, with no surname or further biographical detail in the source; the common name makes identification uncertain, and this figure is kept distinct from the unrelated Petersburg acquaintance "Vladimir Petrovich" of (alive, joked about there for having grown thin) and from the unidentified household-greeting "Vladimir Petrovich" of -- three separate bearers of a common name, none confirmed to be the same person.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Kiselev, 8 December 1891. Moscow. §8 Vladimir Petrovich, whom I loved
Identified only by given name and patronymic, with no surname supplied in the source; a recently deceased figure Chekhov says he loved, mourned here with unusual directness before Chekhov catches himself and turns the passage into a general reflection on mortality rather than a letter of condolence. This corpus already carries two other, unconnected bearers of the same common name -- a Petersburg acquaintance joked about for losing weight and an unidentified figure greeted in a household closing -- neither of which lines up with a death in December 1891 at Babkino; rather than force a match, this letter's Vladimir Petrovich is kept as a separate, honestly unidentified entity.