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The Pope

the Pope

also: папа римский, Pope

The Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church; invoked here as another item of foreign-news small talk ("the Pope's gone against the grain") fit for post-dinner newspaper-reading, in "The Siren" (1887).

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Mentioned in 7 works (8 mentions)

To P. Ye. and Ye. Ya. Chekhov, 20 June 1878. Taganrog. letter · 1 mention
To M. Ye. Chekhov, 18 January 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
The Siren Stories · 1 mention
To A. S. Suvorin, 18 November 1891. Moscow. letter · 1 mention
To M. V. Kiseleva, April 1891. Rome. letter · 2 mentions
To M. Ye. Chekhov, April 1891. Rome. letter · 1 mention
Notebooks. Diaries Notebooks · 1 mention

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