Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich

Reading notes

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 15 December 1887. Petersburg. §3 Kazimir Stanislavovich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, a Petersburg prose writer of Chekhov's acquaintance from the Oskolki circle; the letter's recipient, addressed here by name and patronymic rather than surname.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 December 1887. Moscow. §18 Barantsevich's address

  Kazimir Barantsevich, a fellow writer in the Oskolki circle; Chekhov here urges Alexander to pay him a social call as part of the same advice to cultivate closer ties with literary colleagues.

• N. A. Leikin, 27 December 1887. Moscow. §7 Barantsevich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, a prose writer published in \textit{Oskolki}; Chekhov suggests Leikin give him occasional space even though his work runs more serious than comic.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 10 January 1888. Moscow. §16 B. Barantsevich's patronymic ... "The Slave-Girl"

  The writer Kazimir Barantsevich had sent Chekhov his novella "The Slave-Girl" ("Раба"); Chekhov, not knowing Barantsevich's patronymic, asks Shcheglov for it so he can write a proper thank-you letter.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 22 January 1888. Moscow. §8 Barantsevich

  The writer Kazimir Barantsevich, part of the same Petersburg literary circle as Shcheglov; Chekhov sends his regards through Shcheglov rather than addressing him directly.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 22 February 1888. Moscow. §9 Barantsevich

  Kazimir Barantsevich, prose writer published in Oskolki, named among the writers less versatile than Shcheglov.

• Ivan Leontyevich Leontyev (Shcheglov), February 28, 1888. Moscow. §5 Barantsevich

  Kazimir Barantsevich, prose writer, here volunteered alongside Shcheglov to write for "Russkiye Vedomosti."

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 4 March 1888. Moskva". §4 Kazimir Boleslavovich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, prose writer; Chekhov here uses a patronymic ("Boleslavovich") that does not match the one on record ("Stanislavovich") -- consistent with Chekhov's own uncertainty about Barantsevich's patronymic expressed two letters earlier, which this letter suggests he never fully resolved.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 30 March 1888. Moscow. §4 Kazimir Stanislavovich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, a Petersburg prose writer of Chekhov's acquaintance from the Oskolki circle; the letter's recipient, addressed here by name and patronymic rather than surname.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 31 March 1888. Moscow. §6 Barantsevich

  Kazimir Barantsevich, a fellow writer organizing his own memorial collection for Garshin, "In Memory of Garshin"; Chekhov had already agreed to contribute to it before Pleshcheyev's invitation to a separate collection arrived.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 4 April 1888. Moscow. §4 Barantsevich and company came nose to nose with Evreinova

  Kazimir Barantsevich and Anna Yevreinova (editress of Severny Vestnik, which serialized "The Steppe") had clashed publicly over the organization of a subscription memorial for the recently deceased writer Vsevolod Garshin, each side accusing the other of being a "false liberal."

• To V. G. Korolenko, 2 May 1888. Moscow. §6 Did you send Barantsevich the story?

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, the prose writer, here awaiting a still-unpublished story from Chekhov (routed through Korolenko) for a proposed collection -- the same thread running through Chekhov's spring 1888 correspondence with Barantsevich.

• To V. G. Korolenko, 2 May 1888. Moscow. §7 I answered Barantsevich abusively

  Barantsevich again, distinct from A. Leman named two sentences later: Chekhov reports having answered him irritably about one of his letters, part of the same running exchange over the still-unplaced story.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 10 May 1888. Sumy. §4 Kazimir Stanislavovich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, the prose writer and this letter's sole addressee, whom Chekhov had been corresponding with all spring over placing an unpublished story.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 10 May 1888. Sumy. §7 Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich

  The reverse-side mailing address, giving Barantsevich's St. Petersburg residence in full.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 28 June 1888. Sumy. §10 Barantsevich

  The writer Kazimir Barantsevich, staying with Chekhov at this point in the summer; compare the two days' earlier mention of Barantsevich's departure plans in to Lazarev (Gruzinsky).

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 4 July 1888. Sumy. §3 Kuzma Protapych

  Chekhov's joking mock-formal nickname for Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, used throughout in place of his real name; Barantsevich is addressed directly throughout in the second person and is never named as "Barantsevich" in the letter itself.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 4 July 1888. Sumy. §7 To which museum should I send your trousers?

  Mock-solemn postscript continuing the letter's comic pretext (section 3) that Barantsevich left his galoshes and trousers behind after a visit; "museum" is a joking exaggeration of how carefully the forgotten trousers ought to be preserved.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 12 August 1888. Sumy. §3 Kuzma Protapych

  Chekhov's running joke-name for Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, used throughout their correspondence in place of his real name.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 12 August 1888. Sumy. §10 You live on the tundra

  Referent-tracking note for translators: this section's second-person address ("You live... you serve... you would not trade") is Barantsevich himself, contrasted directly with Chekhov's own first-person description that follows ("I lead a wandering life... I flee..."). The two portraits -- Barantsevich's settled, foggy northern routine versus Chekhov's restless travel -- are deliberately paired and should not be merged or their pronouns swapped in translation.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 3 November 1888. Moscow. §6 Barantsevich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, the Oskolki-circle prose writer already established in this corpus (first appearance). Here he is separately pressing Chekhov for a story for his own, distinct literary collection, expected to appear around the same time as the Garshin volume -- not the same undertaking as the Garshin collection, and not affiliated with Pleshcheyev's editorial work at "Severny Vestnik."

• To I. L. Leontyev, 7 November 1888. Moscow. §13 Give Baranzevich my address

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, a prose writer of the Oskolki circle already attested in this corpus; "Baranzevich" is a spelling variant of the same surname. His earlier declined submission and Chekhov's request to have his address passed along suggest an ongoing, still somewhat formal literary acquaintance at this date.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 2 December 1888. en route to Petersburg. §2 Dear Kazimir Stanislavovich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich (1851-1927), the St. Petersburg prose writer and "New Times"/"Oskolki" circle correspondent Chekhov had been writing to since 1888 (see the earlier direct letters collected under, e.g.); this is not his first appearance in the corpus.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 2 December 1888. en route to Petersburg. §11 Barantsevich.

  The envelope's addressee line, giving Barantsevich's surname alone, following the name and patronymic given in full on the preceding line.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 8 December 1888. Petersburg. §9 To His Honor

  Formal envelope honorific opening the address block for Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, matching the form used on the envelope of the 2 December letter.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 8 December 1888. Petersburg. §10 Kazimir Stanislavovich

  The addressee, given here by full name and patronymic on the envelope, as in the 2 December letter -- there is no "Boleslav"/"Boleslavich" mix-up in this letter; that slip and its correction belong only to.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 8 December 1888. Petersburg. §11 Barantsevich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, the novelist and fellow "Oskolki"/"New Times" writer to whom Chekhov had written six days earlier on 2 December; the Peski address here matches the one on that earlier envelope.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 3 February 1889. Moscow. §3 Kazimir Stanislavovich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, the prose writer and sole addressee, on continued warm personal terms with Chekhov despite the two men's recent public sparring.

• To V. A. Tikhonov, 7 March 1889. Moscow. §8 Barantsevich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, prose writer of the period, listed among the generation's writers.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 22 April 1889. Moscow. §3 Dear colleague!

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, addressed here as a fellow prose writer; the same figure named among the literary "staff-officers" in the 18 February 1889 letter to Shcheglov and, per that letter's headnote, a guest at the Lintvaryov estate the previous summer.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 22 April 1889. Moscow. §3 the board of your horse-tramway

  "правление Вашей конно-лошадиной дороги" -- a joking reference to Barantsevich's day job as a railway/insurance clerk in Petersburg, not a literal post with a horse-tramway company.

• To M. N. Albov, 30 September 1891. Moscow. §4 Kazimir Stanislavovich

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, already established in this corpus (e.g.), a prose writer of the Oskolki circle whom Chekhov elsewhere addresses directly and here asks Albov to greet on his behalf -- consistent with Barantsevich's documented connections to the same Petersburg literary circle as Albov.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 28 January 1890. Petersburg. §2 Farewell, my dear fellow

  Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich (1851-1927), the Petersburg prose writer and longtime correspondent (see, among others), addressed here only as "голубчик" ("my dear fellow," a warm diminutive term of address) rather than by name -- this note supplies the identification the letter itself omits. This is a calling-card farewell written just before Chekhov's departure for Sakhalin; see the headnote.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 22 March 1890. Moscow. §6 Баранцевич не хандрил бы

  Kazimir Barantsevich is named here as a third example, milder than Fofanov's institutionalization or Garshin's death: he is "in low spirits" (хандрил, from хандра, a period of depressive listlessness), the least severe of the three but part of the same rhetorical set. The same Barantsevich appears earlier in \S4 as one of the ordinary people, alongside Chekhov and Shcheglov, whom the single universal morality keeps from stealing and lying -- the letter uses him twice as a shared reference point between the two correspondents.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 15 April 1890. Moscow. §3 dear Kuzma Protapych

  "Кузьма Протапыч" is a joking nickname Chekhov invents for Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich, not a real patronymic (Barantsevich's actual patronymic was Stanislavovich) -- a comic, folksy-sounding first-name-and-patronymic pair hung on him for the length of this sentence. Rendered literally as "Kuzma Protapych" rather than resolved or explained in-text; no separate entity is created for the nickname, which is tagged in entities-mentions directly to.

• To the Chekhovs, 18 January 1891. Petersburg. §9 Barantsevich has had a son. This is, I believe, the seventeenth.

  A deadpan comic exaggeration, not a literal count: Chekhov reports the birth of a son to the writer Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich and then tags on "this is, I believe, the seventeenth" with mock-solemn precision, as though bemused at the size of the Barantsevich family -- a dry one-line joke in the letter's running-item mode, translated flat (without added exclamation or comment) per the corpus's practice of letting period humor land on its own rather than glossing it into the prose itself; the actual number of Barantsevich's children is not otherwise verified from the surviving text and the figure should be read as Chekhov's comic hyperbole rather than a biographical fact.