person
Maria Vladimirovna Kiseleva
Kiseleva
also: М. В. Киселева, M. V. Kiseleva, Maria Kiseleva
Mistress of the Babkino estate near Voskresensk, wife of landowner Alexei Sergeyevich Kiselev, and a close friend and regular correspondent of Chekhov's throughout the 1880s; the Chekhov family rented their summer house from the Kiselev family at Babkino, and Chekhov's letters to her mix literary talk and banter with, as here, practical matters.
Reading notes
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 13 September 1887. Moscow. §3 most esteemed Maria Vladimirovna
Maria Vladimirovna Kiseleva, mistress of Babkino and one of Chekhov's steadiest correspondents; the mock-formal address ("multi-respected") is itself part of the letter's bantering register with her.
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 28 September 1887. Moscow. §3 Much-esteemed
The mock-formal address, echoed from Chekhov's other letters to Maria Vladimirovna Kiseleva, sets the letter's bantering register from its opening line.
- To A. S. Kiselev, 15 February 1888. Moscow. §7 Maria Vladimirovna's system
Kiselev's wife Maria Vladimirovna Kiseleva, mistress of the Babkino estate -- Chekhov's advice here ("ask a good deal more") is aimed at her habit of underpricing, not at Chekhov's own affairs.
- To A. S. Kiselev, 15 February 1888. Moscow. §17 Maria Vladimirovna's novella
The novella under discussion belongs to Kiseleva, not to Chekhov: he is passing along market intelligence about what the editor Berg pays lady novelists, distinct from his own novella (mentioned three sections earlier) that he had just placed with "Severny Vestnik."
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 30 September 1888. Moscow. §62 М. В. Киселевой
Maria Vladimirovna Kiseleva, mistress of the Babkino estate and one of Chekhov's most frequent correspondents of this period -- distinct from A. A. Kiseleva (section 56), a different addressee named only once in this table.
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 2 November 1888. Moscow. §10 Mikhail Petrovich and Elizaveta Alexandrovna
Mikhail Petrovich and Elizaveta Alexandrovna are members of the Babkino/Kiselev household receiving closing regards; not otherwise identified in this letter or elsewhere in the corpus as currently built, and not modeled as separate entities.
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 3 December 1889. Moscow. §3 Maria Vladimirovna
Maria Vladimirovna Kiseleva, mistress of the Babkino estate near Voskresensk and a longtime friend and regular correspondent of Chekhov's; addressed here with the same mock-formal salutation he uses throughout their bantering correspondence.
- To A. S. Kiselev, 8 December 1891. Moscow. §8 To Maria Vladimirovna I wish with all my soul a speedy recovery
Maria Vladimirovna Kiseleva, mistress of Babkino and Chekhov's close friend and regular correspondent since the mid-1880s; the unspecified illness referred to here is not otherwise detailed in this letter.
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 28 January 1890. Petersburg. §5 future wife
A joking epithet for Kiseleva herself, not a literal fiancee: Chekhov plays on his real departure for Sakhalin as a comic "flight" from marriage to his regular joking correspondent, continuing the letter's bantering register (compare "cowed and in flight" at \S6, and the Kiselev-household in-jokes generally, e.g. "Your Hypocrite" in).
- To A. P. Lensky, 27 February 1891. Moscow. §6 Babkino, to the Kiselyovs'
The Babkino estate near Voskresensk, home of Chekhov's regular correspondents and friends the Kiselyov family (cf. Maria Vladimirovna Kiseleva,, and her husband Alexei Sergeyevich), where the Chekhovs had long spent time in the warmer months; here shorthanded in the plural ("the Kiselyovs'") rather than naming an individual family member.