event
Skopin Bank Collapse
the Skopin bank collapse
also: скопинский банк лопнул
The 1875 failure of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society, one of the most notorious financial scandals of Alexander II's reign, exposed as a long-running fraud orchestrated by its chairman Ivan Rykov.
Reading notes
- Idyll -- Alas and Alack! §9 the Skopin bank had gone bust
The failure of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society in 1875, one of the most notorious financial scandals of Alexander II's reign, in which the bank's chairman Rykov had for years fabricated accounts to disguise massive fraud.
- To N. A. Leikin, 4 November 1884. Moscow. §14 the Skopin affair
The same Skopin bank fraud scandal referenced via the Rykov trial above; Chekhov asks Leikin to give it column space in Oskolki's feuilletons as well.
- To N. A. Leikin, 17 November 1884. Moscow. §15 The Rykov case
The Skopin bank-fraud trial, expected to run two to three weeks; Chekhov was covering it for the Peterburgskaya Gazeta and hoped for a press credential to ease his access.
- To N. A. Leikin, 25 November 1884. Moscow. §5 the whole trial
The 1884 Moscow criminal trial arising from the 1875 Skopin bank collapse; Chekhov was in Moscow covering its proceedings for the press at the time of this letter.
- To N. A. Leikin, 25 November 1884. Moscow. §6 the courthouse
The Moscow courtroom where the Rykov fraud trial was being heard; Chekhov attended sessions as a working journalist alongside his literary writing.
- The Village Elder §5 the Skopin affair
The 1875 collapse of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society, exposed as a massive fraud orchestrated by its chairman Ivan Rykov; its sensational 1884 trial was one of the most closely followed court cases of the era. Shelma name-drops it to claim he wouldn't touch a case that big -- peasant business is his specialty.