institution
Petersburg Committee (of Literacy)
Petersburg committee
also: Пбргский комитет, Petersburg committee
The Petersburg counterpart to the Moscow Committee of Literacy (institution:literacy-committee-moscow), invoked here only by Chekhov's abbreviation "Пбргский комитет" ("Petersburg committee"); he asks, with evident curiosity, whether its own contribution to the Sakhalin school-library shipment will be textbooks or general reading matter. Not further specified by full name in this letter, and its exact institutional identity (whether a formally separate Petersburg Committee of Literacy or a Petersburg branch of the same movement) is not certain from this text alone.
Reading notes
- To I. N. Sakharov, 6 February 1891. Moscow. §5 Petersburg committee
"Пбргский комитет" -- the Petersburg counterpart to the Moscow Committee of Literacy (institution:literacy-committee-moscow), which Chekhov and D. I. Tikhomirov had already enlisted for the Sakhalin school libraries (cf. the neighboring letter to I. P. Chekhov); Chekhov's curiosity here is simply whether its contribution will be textbooks or general reading.