Borya (Suvorin's son)

Reading notes

• A. S. Suvorin, 11 September 1888. Moscow. §8 and to Borya as well

  "Borya" is Boris Alekseyevich Suvorin, a second son of Aleksei Suvorin, named here as a second recipient of the gossip about the horsewoman Godfroy; distinct from his brother Aleksei Alekseyevich just named in the same sentence.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 17 December 1888. Moscow. §13 To my sister, to Borya, to Nastya, to Alexei Alexeyevich, to Maslov, to Gey -- greetings and regards to all.

  REAL-VS-FICTIONAL NON-CONFLATION FLAG: "Borya" and "Nastya" here are Suvorin's REAL children (and respectively, both already established in this corpus, first appearance), sent ordinary greetings in this closing list. They are explicitly DISTINCT from the FICTIONAL "Boris" and "Nastya" characters (and) sketched by Chekhov for the play "The Wood Demon" in's letter -- the same pair of given names recurring by coincidence in an unrelated fictional context. The two pairs must never be conflated despite the identical diminutives.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 7 January 1889. Moscow. §6 Borya

  Diminutive of Boris; one of Suvorin's children, per the corpus's existing identification at. Not to be confused with the unrelated fictional "Boris" sketched for "The Wood Demon" in's headnote.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 8 February 1889. Moscow. §13 Borya

  Borya (Boris Alekseyevich Suvorin), one of Suvorin's children.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 8 April 1889. Moscow. §3 Borya

  Borya, diminutive of Boris, one of Aleksei Suvorin's children.

• To A. S. Suvorin, May 1889. Sumy. §10 My heartfelt regards to Anna Ivanovna, Nastya, and Borya

  Borya (Boris Alekseyevich Suvorin), one of Suvorin's children, grouped here with his mother and sister as usual in this corpus's Suvorin-family regards.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 31 January 1891. Moscow. §7 Tell Borya, Mitya, and Andryusha that I vitupero them

  Borya, Mitya, and Andryusha are sons of Aleksei Suvorin; the mock-Latin scolding -- "vitupero" (I rebuke), capped with the mangled schoolboy tag "O pessimi discipuli! Utinam vos lupus devoret!" (O most wretched pupils! May a wolf devour you!) -- responds to a prank note the boys left in Chekhov's coat pocket during his recent stay with the family in Petersburg.