person
Nikolai Mikhailovich Yazykov
Yazykov
also: Языков
Russian Romantic-era poet; a stanza of his verse is quoted (with Chekhov reversing its sense in an editorial aside) alongside a Lermontov quotation in the closing epigraph piece of this range.
Reading notes
- Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) §496 Oh, thank God, thank God! / I am not in love, I am free
A genuine stanza from the Romantic poet Yazykov, paired with the Lermontov quotation to set up Chekhov's own wry rebuttal that follows.