Mikhailovsky Nikolai Konstantinovich (1842–1904) - publicist, sociologist, literary critic; populist theorist. In 1868–1884, Mikhailovsky was an employee and member of the editorial board of Otechestvennye Zapiski; after the closure of the magazine, he worked at Severny Vestnik, Russkaya Mysl and the newspaper Russkie Vedomosti; from 1894 until the end of his life, he headed the magazine “Russian Wealth.” I met Chekhov at a time when Mikhailovsky headed the editorial office of the magazine “Northern Herald.” On December 3, 1887, Chekhov wrote to his family from St. Petersburg: “I get to know each other every day. Yesterday, for example, from 10 1/2 o’clock in the morning until three, I sat at Mikhailovsky’s... in the company of Gleb Uspensky and Korolenko: they ate, drank and chatted amicably.”