institution
The Tradesmen's School
Tradesmen's School
also: Meshchanskoe Uchilishche
A school for the meshchane (the urban tradesman estate) near the Kaluga Gate in Moscow; Chekhov's father Pavel had recently taken a post there as watchman, and the family's mail was addressed through it.
Reading notes
- To M. M. Dyukovsky, 24–25 August 1883. Moscow. §6 The Tradesmen's School
A school for the meshchane (the urban tradesman estate) near the Kaluga Gate; Chekhov's father Pavel had recently taken a post there as watchman, and the family's mail was addressed through it.
- To M. M. Dyukovsky, 2–3 May 1884. Moscow. §7 The Meshchansky School
A school for the meshchane (the urban tradesman estate) near the Kaluga Gate; Chekhov's father Pavel had recently taken a post there as watchman, and the family's mail was addressed through it.
- To M. M. Dyukovsky, 5 October 1888. Moscow. §7 the Meshchanskoye School
A school for the meshchane (the urban tradesman estate) near the Kaluga Gate in Moscow, evidently where Dyukovsky was then living or working; the same school's inspector appears independently in Chekhov's correspondence five days later, congratulating him on the Pushkin Prize.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 10 October 1888. Moscow. §3 the inspector of the Meshchanskoye School
Unnamed here, as in the earlier note to M. M. Dyukovsky (5 October 1888), which places Dyukovsky at this same school near the Kaluga Gate. This letter independently confirms the school's inspector was part of Chekhov's Moscow circle -- see the crossref to for the two-letter cross-confirmation the translator's report flagged.
- To M. M. Dyukovsky, 13 December 1888. Petersburg. §2 the Meshchanskoye School
The school for the meshchane (the urban tradesman estate) near the Kaluga Gate in Moscow, already established at as where Dyukovsky could be found; here Chekhov reports having bought a copy of the Garshin miscellany specifically for the school's use.
- To M. M. Dyukovsky, 13 December 1888. Petersburg. §8 Meshchanskoye School
Repeats the institution's name on the envelope address block, unlike the October letter, which also carried the formal honorific "Его высокоблагородию" ("To His Honor") before Dyukovsky's name; this envelope addresses him simply by name, without that honorific.
- To M. M. Dyukovsky, 7 January 1889. Moscow. §3 the Meshchansky School
The Meshchanskoye uchilishche, a Moscow school for the meshchanstvo (the urban tradesman estate); Chekhov's father Pavel had worked there as watchman in the family's early Moscow years (see and its headnote). Here Chekhov passes on word that Novoye Vremya's Moscow shop has been instructed to give the school a 10% discount on book purchases.