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Ivan Alexandrovich Vsevolozhsky
Vsevolozhsky
also: Всеволожский, I. A. Vsevolozhsky
Director of the Imperial Theatres (1881-1899), one of the officials who read and, together with Grigorovich, effectively judged Chekhov's rewritten "Wood Demon" -- the play was rejected for the imperial ("казенная") stage, an outcome Chekhov reports learning of only secondhand.