Ivan Gavrilovich Rykov

Reading notes

• Bibliography §6 Rykov

  Ivan Rykov, chairman of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society, whose fabricated accounts caused the bank's 1875 collapse in one of the great financial scandals of Alexander II's reign; naming him as the author of a book on Russia's missing money is the story's blackest joke.

• Idyll -- Alas and Alack! §8 Rykov

  Ivan Gavrilovich Rykov, the real-life chairman of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society, whose fraudulent management triggered the bank's 1875 collapse and a sensational 1875 trial -- treated here as a legendary, larger-than-life host by Nasechkin.

• Toward a Characterization of the Peoples §40 Rykov

  Chairman of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society, whose 1875 bank fraud made his name a byword for financial scandal; here jokingly credited with rendering Persia unspecified "services."

• To N. A. Leikin, 4 November 1884. Moscow. §10 the Rykov case

  The sensational fraud trial arising from the 1875 collapse of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society; Chekhov, holding a ticket to attend, offers to write feuilletons about the proceedings for extra money.

• To N. A. Leikin, 11 November 1884. Moscow. §8 the Rykov affair

  The sensational fraud trial of Ivan Rykov, chairman of the collapsed Skopin Mutual Credit Society, which Chekhov covered as a journalist.

• To N. A. Leikin, 17 November 1884. Moscow. §6 for Rykov's sake

  The notorious Skopin bank-fraud trial, which Chekhov was covering for the Peterburgskaya Gazeta; he mentions inspecting the district court's new arrangements ahead of the proceedings.

• To N. A. Leikin, 25 November 1884. Moscow. §5 Rykov

  Ivan Gavrilovich Rykov, chairman of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society, whose fraudulent bookkeeping caused the bank's 1875 collapse; his trial, reopened and heard at length in Moscow in late 1884, drew national press attention.

• To N. A. Leikin, 26 November 1884. Moscow. §8 Rykov

  Ivan Gavrilovich Rykov, chairman of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society, on trial for orchestrating the bank's fraudulent collapse; the trial Chekhov was covering daily.

• To N. A. Leikin, 26 November 1884. Moscow. §9 the declaration was made on Rykov's orders

  Chekhov complains that trimming his sentence at the word "but" reversed its sense, turning an indictment of Rykov's fraud into an apparent windfall for the depositor.

• The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes §6 Rykov

  The name of the real chairman of the Skopin bank, convicted of years of fabricated accounts in the sensational 1875 fraud trial; Chekhov borrows the name wholesale for his parody villain-financier.