Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin

Reading notes

• To P. A. Sergeyenko, 4 May 1888. Moscow. §6 Suvorin's son, Alexei Alekseyevich, advises

  Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, one of Aleksei Suvorin's sons -- distinct from his brother Mikhail Alekseyevich Suvorin, who managed the family's bookselling business. It is Alexei Alekseyevich who advises Chekhov to postpone a possible Mount Athos trip to October and who proposes they travel there together; the two Suvorin sons should not be conflated.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 July 1888. Parokhod "Yunona". §7 I am traveling with Alexei Suvorin the younger

  Referent tracking: this is Aleksei Alekseyevich Suvorin, the publisher's son and Chekhov's travel companion for the Caucasus leg of the trip -- distinct from his father Aleksei Suvorin the publisher, who is not on this leg of the journey.

• To M. P. Chekhov, 28 July 1888. Parokhod "Dir". §23 My travelling companion, Suvorin-fils

  "Suvorin-fils" is Aleksei Alekseevich Suvorin, the publisher A. S. Suvorin's son, who accompanied Chekhov on this 1888 tour of the Caucasus; distinct from his father, who does not appear in this letter.

• To N. A. Leikin, 12 August 1888. Sumy. §5 my travelling companion, Suvorin's son

  Referent-tracking note for translators: "мой спутник Суворин-фис" ("my travelling companion, Suvorin-fils") names Aleksey Suvorin's son,, as Chekhov's companion on this leg of the trip. "The death of his brother" refers to that son's own brother -- another of Suvorin's sons (likely Mikhail Alekseyevich Suvorin,, or another sibling not otherwise identified in this letter) -- not a relative of Chekhov's or Leikin's. Keep the referent anchored to the son throughout rather than letting it drift onto Suvorin senior or Chekhov.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 14 August 1888. Sumy. §4 Suvorin's son

  Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, Aleksey Suvorin's son, who was traveling with Chekhov and received the telegram warning of diphtheria in the family, precipitating the elder Suvorin's dread while further news arrived. Compare the entity's other appearances for the outcome; the crisis concerned a family diphtheria death.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 29 August 1888. Sumy. §9 Alexei Alexeyevich

  Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, Suvorin's son; sent regards here along with his family, and promised a plan of the farmstead property and (in section 14) instructed to write to Chekhov's Moscow address if he writes at all.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 29 August 1888. Sumy. §14 Alexei Alexeyevich

  Chekhov instructs that if Alexei Alexeyevich writes to him, he should write to the Moscow address given in section 3, confirming Chekhov's imminent return there.

• A. S. Suvorin, 11 September 1888. Moscow. §8 a letter from Aleksey Alekseyevich

  "Aleksey Alekseyevich" is named here by patronymic alone -- Aleksei Alekseyevich Suvorin, the publisher's son who traveled with Chekhov in the Caucasus earlier in 1888 (see, where he appears as "Suvorin-fils"); distinct from his father,, and from his brother,, mentioned immediately after in the same section.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 11 September 1888. Moscow. §6 from young Suvorin

  "Young Suvorin" (Суворин-фис, "Suvorin-fils") is Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, the son of Chekhov's publisher-patron Aleksei Suvorin -- the same travel companion from the 1888 Caucasus trip. Distinct from the letter's addressee, Alexander Chekhov, who is never referred to in the third person here, and from the father Pavel Yegorovich just quoted in the section before (loc 4).

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 September 1888. Moscow. §8 Suvorin-fils

  "Suvorin-fils" (rendered as in the Russian, which itself borrows the French tag) is Aleksei Alekseyevich Suvorin, the publisher's son, explicitly distinguished here from his father -- he speaks for the editorial office of Novoye Vremya in sections 8-9, asking whether Chekhov objects to Alexander's byline and concluding it is "better for us if the name Chekhov appears more often in the paper." Do not conflate father and son.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 2 October 1888. Moscow. §21 Alexei Alexeyevich

  Suvorin's son, referred to by first name and patronymic alone, matching the convention already established for this figure elsewhere in the correspondence.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 5–6 October 1888. Moscow. §11 And still no sign of Alexei Alexeyevich!

  Suvorin's son, matching the established convention for this figure elsewhere in the correspondence.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 18 October 1888. Moscow. §19 I see Alexei Alexeyevich every day.

  Suvorin's son, the same recurring figure already established across this run of correspondence and matching the corpus's standing identification for this name -- a continuing cross-reference to an already-known figure, not a new or separately unresolved mystery each time the name recurs.

• To A. S. Lazarev, 20 October 1888. Moscow. §8 Suvorin the younger

  Russian "Суворину-фису," a jocular French-suffixed nickname meaning roughly "Suvorin fils"/"Suvorin Jr." This refers to Alexei Suvorin's son, Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, who was in Moscow at this date -- NOT to Alexei Suvorin himself, the publisher of "New Times" and Chekhov's chief literary patron. The two must not be conflated: the father is, the son handed the manuscript here is.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 24 October 1888. Moscow. §9 Alexei Alexeyevich is still in Moscow.

  Suvorin's son, the same standing, still-unresolved cross-reference already flagged across this run of Suvorin correspondence (see's headnote note 7, and \S19, "I see Alexei Alexeyevich every day"). This is a further, likewise terse sighting-report -- a continuing recurring mention rather than a new figure, with no further resolution offered here.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 16 November 1888. Moscow. §5 Alexei Alexeyevich Suvorini filius

  "Suvorini filius" is Chekhov's own mock-Latin coinage (a play on the genitive-tag convention, as with "Al. P. Chekhov" elsewhere), not a genuine Latin name or title -- kept in Latin with the bracketed gloss "Suvorin's son (Lat.)" to preserve the joke, per this corpus's standing convention for Chekhov's occasional Latin/foreign-language asides.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 23 November 1888. Moscow. §4 Alexei Alexeyevich

  Young Suvorin, Alexei Alexeyevich Suvorin, the publisher's son, already established as a confidant and go-between in this correspondence (e.g. \S5).

• To A. S. Suvorin, 17 December 1888. Moscow. §13 to Alexei Alexeyevich,

  Suvorin's son, recurring here in the same greetings list as a separate mention from \S9 above; a continuing cross-reference to the same already-established figure, not a new one.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 4 February 1889. Moscow. §10 Alexei Alexeyevich

  Suvorin's son Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, previously established in this corpus; Chekhov apologizes for not managing to say goodbye to him and his wife before leaving Petersburg.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 6 February 1889. Moscow. §7 Today I sent Alexei Alexeyevich a story for "Stoglav."

  Alexei Alexeyevich Suvorin, Suvorin's son, and "Stoglav", the periodical he supplies content for, are the same pairing already established in this corpus via's headnote; this letter adds that Chekhov has sent him a story for it, with a pointedly transactional, only-if-you're-grateful tone ("Let him feel it").

• To A. S. Suvorin, 14 February 1889. Moscow. §5 Aleksei Alekseyevich

  Likely Suvorin's son Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, already established elsewhere in this corpus as a Suvorin-family figure Chekhov addresses directly in asides; the congratulatory tone here (on the Ashinov scandal's coverage in the family newspaper) fits a staff or family connection to Novoye Vremya, but this identification should be treated as plausible rather than certain.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 11 April 1889. Moscow. §12 A. A. Suvorin

  Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, Aleksei Suvorin's other son, tagged here jokingly as "the friend of Ashinov and of Father Paisy." Distinct from his brother Mikhail Alekseyevich Suvorin, named separately in \S7 of this same letter.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 2 July 1889. Sumy. §11 toward the endowment of a scholarship in the name of A. A. Suvorin

  A. A. Suvorin is Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, the addressee's son.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 26 October 1891. Moscow. §3 the money I've handed over to Alexei Alexeyevich

  Alexei Alexeyevich Suvorin, Suvorin's son, who was handling famine-relief donations sent in to \emph{Novoye Vremya} -- the same role he plays in nearby letters of this run (cf., \S13-14 there). Distinct from the "Al. Al." of \S4 below, a different Suvorin associate with the same initials; see the note there.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 30 October 1891. Moscow. §3 Alexei Alexeyevich

  Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, Aleksei Suvorin's son, already attested in this corpus (e.g. the Mount Athos travel plans of May 1888). His role here -- entrusted with hand-carrying the corrected first-sheet proof of "The Duel" to the printing house -- fits a family member working alongside his father's firm, and is consistent with his other appearances in the corpus as someone embedded in the Suvorin publishing operation.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 19 December 1891. Moscow. §3 I advised loving virtue not to you, but to Aleksei Alekseyevich

  Aleksei Alekseyevich Suvorin, the elder Suvorin's son, was the intended recipient of a letter -- with two enclosed proofs -- that the father opened instead. Chekhov's opening line turns the mix-up into a joke: his earlier exhortation to "love virtue" was meant for the son, not for the father who broke the seal. Sets up the letter's closing return to the same joke at \S7.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 22 January 1892. Moscow. §13 Попросите Алексея Алексеевича выслать мне поскорее статью горного инженера Бацевича о нефти

  Alexei Alekseyevich Suvorin, the addressee's son and a working associate in the Suvorin publishing and business concerns (previously established in this corpus at), asked here to forward on a technical article about petroleum by the mining engineer Batsevich that Chekhov had meant to read while in Petersburg and forgot.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 1 April 1890. Moscow. §9 If Alexei Alexeyevich really has a polyp

  A brief, dismissive aside about a rumored nasal polyp afflicting Alexei Alexeyevich Suvorin, the publisher's son -- Chekhov, writing as a physician, treats the rumor skeptically and, if true, trivially curable ("as easy as smoking out a cigarette"). This is a minor, glancing companion note to the much longer clinical diagnosis of the younger Suvorin's chronic catarrh Chekhov delivers at length in, written just three days earlier -- read together, the two letters show Chekhov continuing to monitor and half-mockingly manage the son's health complaints across successive letters to the father.

• To I. P. Chekhov, 13 March 1891. Petersburg. §4 Alexei Alexeyevich

  Alexei Alexeyevich Suvorin, the elder Suvorin's son, the third member of the traveling party.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 18 August 1891. Bogimovo. §5 Aleksei Alekseyevich is in Feodosia?

  Aleksei Alekseyevich Suvorin, Suvorin's son (distinct from his other son Mikhail Alekseyevich Suvorin); Chekhov imagines him at Suvorin's Crimean residence in Feodosia.