institution
Russian Literary Society
the Society
also: Русское литературное общество, Общество, the Society
A Petersburg literary society chaired at this date by Pyotr Nikolaevich Isakov; it was organizing a fundraising literary evening in Petersburg for the week after Easter 1889, to which Chekhov was invited but declined to travel, citing patients he could not leave. Referred to in the letter itself only as "the Society," with the fundraising-evening detail supplied by the source editors' commentary rather than by Chekhov's own text.
Reading notes
- To P. N. Isakov, 9 April 1889. Moscow. §5 the Society
The Russian Literary Society, chaired by Isakov, which was organizing a fundraising literary evening in Petersburg for the week after Easter 1889; Chekhov declines to attend, citing patients he cannot leave.
- To P. N. Isakov, 9 April 1889. Moscow. §7 The Society
A one-line postscript restating Chekhov's genuine fondness for the Russian Literary Society itself, apart from his inability to travel to its event.
- To P. N. Isakov, 20 January 1891. Petersburg. §5 the Society's meeting
The Russian Literary Society (institution:russian-literary-society), the Petersburg literary society Isakov chaired; see the glossary note at for its earlier fundraising-evening activity. The meeting itself is dated only by Chekhov's "tomorrow" and "the following Monday."