person
Zemsky
also: Земский
A Moscow bookseller who sent Liodor Palmin an illiterate, abusive letter provoked by Ivan Shcheglov's prose writing; Chekhov relays the anecdote to Leikin as comic material.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 12–13 February 1884. Moscow. §11 the bookseller Zemsky
A Moscow bookseller who had written an illiterate, abusive letter to Palmin -- apparently provoked by seeing prose (rather than verse) from Ivan Shcheglov ("L. I."), which Chekhov relays to Leikin as a specimen of comic outrage.