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Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni
Koni
also: Кони, А. Ф. Кони
Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni (1844-1927), celebrated Russian jurist, judge, and orator whose published collections of court speeches ("Судебные речи") were widely read for their literary as well as legal interest; Chekhov, always alert to courtroom material for fiction, points Pleshcheyev to a specific case in Koni's collection as raw material for a story.
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 11 February 1889. Moscow. §7 Koni's court speeches
Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni's published collections of court speeches, read for literary as well as legal interest in this period.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 23 October 1889. Moscow. §6 Koni's
Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni, the celebrated jurist and man of letters; Chekhov recalls reworking a discarded story of Koni's into a publishable "Saturday piece" (subbotnik) during a visit to Suvorin's house, as an example of the editorial salvage work he is offering to do more of.
- To S. A. Andreyevsky, 25 December 1891. Moscow. §6 Koni
Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni, the celebrated jurist, judge, and orator whose published court speeches were prized for their literary as well as legal interest, first attested at (where Chekhov points Pleshcheyev to a specific Koni case as story material). Here Chekhov groups Andreyevsky together with Koni and unnamed "others" as jurists whose speeches hold a double interest for him -- artistic merit on one hand, scholarly or judicial-practical significance on the other -- setting up his praise of two specific Andreyevsky speeches that follows.
- To M. P. Chekhova, 16 January 1891. Petersburg. §12 Koni
Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni, the eminent jurist and chief procurator of the Cassation Department; his wish to discuss Sakhalin with Chekhov here anticipates a series of meetings between the two men that would go on to influence Koni's own later writing on penal reform.
- To A. F. Koni, 26 January 1891. Petersburg. §4 Anatoly Fyodorovich!
Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni, the celebrated jurist, judge, and orator; this appears to be Chekhov's first surviving direct letter to him, written in reply to a letter of Koni's proposing to discuss Sakhalin and following Chekhov's visit to him reported a week earlier in.
- Notebooks. Diaries §4035 A. F. Koni
Anatoly Fyodorovich Koni (1844-1927), the eminent jurist and memoirist, whose praise of The Seagull Chekhov records receiving by letter.