person
Bartenev
also: Бартенев
A defendant in a Warsaw criminal case, sentenced to eight years' hard labor, for whom Fyodor Plevako served as defense counsel and reportedly received a fee of ten thousand rubles -- a sum Chekhov wryly reckons at 1,250 rubles per year of the client's sentence. Not to be confused with Pyotr Bartenev, the historian and founder of the journal Russky Arkhiv, mentioned elsewhere in this corpus.
Reading notes
- To V. O. Kononovich, 27 February 1891. Moscow. §6 1,250 rubles for every year of an eight-year term of hard labor
Plevako's second fee: 10,000 rubles for defending a Warsaw client named Bartenev (not to be confused with the historian Pyotr Bartenev of \emph{Russky Arkhiv}), who nonetheless drew an eight-year sentence of penal servitude. Chekhov's own arithmetic -- reducing the fee to rubles per year of the client's sentence -- is the letter's driest joke, and pointedly not a compliment to either the lawyer's success rate or the going price of legal celebrity.
- To Ye. M. Shavrova, 28 May 1891. Aleksin. §5 the Bartenev case
The notorious criminal case in Warsaw in which Aleksandr Bartenev killed his mistress, the actress Maria Vishnevskaya (\S5); already discussed at length in Chekhov's earlier letter (where he notes the defense fee paid to Fyodor Plevako). Distinct from the historian Pyotr Bartenev mentioned elsewhere in this corpus -- see the entity note on.