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Russian Society for the Protection of Animals
society for the protection of animals
also: общество покровительства животным, Императорское Российское общество покровительства животным
Founded in 1865 (modeled on the British and German societies of the same kind), an Imperial Russian charitable organization campaigning against cruelty to animals; invoked by an outraged crowd when Syusin nearly feeds a live rabbit to a boa constrictor.
Reading notes
- The Cynic §30 the society for the protection of animals
The Russian Society for the Protection of Animals (est. 1865, modeled on similar British and German societies), which campaigned against cruelty to animals and had real legal standing to intervene in cases like public animal abuse.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 3 December 1891. Moscow. §7 Society for the Protection of Animals
The Russian Society for the Protection of Animals, founded 1865; Chekhov asks that 100 copies of Kashtanka -- a novella narrated from a dog's point of view -- be sent to its board once the book is published, a fitting gesture given the story's subject.
- Visiting Cards §5 общества покровительства животным
The real Imperial Russian Society for the Protection of Animals (est. 1865); listing membership in it, alongside insurance and sewing-machine agencies, on a personal calling card satirizes the era's mania for stacking up affiliations as markers of respectability, regardless of relevance.