Alexander Ivanovich Voyeikov

Alexander Ivanovich Voyeikov (1842-1916), Russian climatologist and geographer, author of "Climates of Various Countries" ("Климаты разных стран"), the reference work Chekhov asks Suvorin to send if he owns it, evidently in connection with Sakhalin preparations. Distinct from, an unrelated Moscow society lady elsewhere in the corpus who shares only the surname.