Ivan Shcheglov Explained

Ivan Leontievich Leontiev (Леонтьев, Иван Леонтьевич Saint Petersburg, 1856–1911) was an officer in the army of the Russian Empire, who wrote plays and novels under the pen name Ivan Shcheglov.^[1] His best known work is The Dacha Husband (Dachnyi muzh). The first English translation of Shcheglov's novel was made by Michael R. Katz in 2009.

Notes and References

1. Anton Chekhov; Stephen Mulrine, Jutta Hercher (eds.) Chekhov on Theatre 2013 Notes: "Leontiev-Shcheglov, Ivan Leontievich (1856-1911) Writer and dramatist, whose one-sided infatuation with theatre Chekhov persistently tried to discourage, since he regarded Leontiev-Shcheglov as a much better prose writer. Leontiev, who wrote under the pseudonym Shcheglov, accused Chekhov of having plagiarised his Tragedian Despite Himself from his play A Husband in the Country."