Ieronim Ieronimovich Yasinsky (pen name Maxim Belinsky)

Reading notes

• To I. L. Leontyev, 1 January 1888. Moscow. §9 Maxim Belinsky

  Pen name of Ieronim Yasinsky, a prolific journalist-novelist Chekhov holds up (half-jokingly) as a model of professional polish Shcheglov could learn from.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 4 February 1888. Moscow. §11 Mr. Yasinsky's appearance in "Novoye Vremya"

  Ieronim Yasinsky (also known by his pen name Maxim Belinsky), whose move to write for the conservative "Novoye Vremya" Chekhov judges a professional disgrace, even while praising his story "The Fire" on its own merits.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 22 February 1888. Moscow. §9 Yasinsky

  Ieronim Yasinsky, writing here under his own surname rather than his pen name "Maxim Belinsky"; named among the writers less versatile than Shcheglov.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 18 April 1888. Moscow. §8 that demigod Yasinsky

  Disambiguation: the Russian syntax of this sentence makes it easy to misread the fawning admiration as directed at Garshin, the memoir's subject. It is not. The chain of reference is: the unnamed memoirist (Babikov/Bibikov) is the one who is vain, boastful, friends with Minsky, and obsequiously devoted to "that demigod" Ieronim Yasinsky (pen name Maxim Belinsky) --. Garshin himself is only the memoir's subject and is not implicated in any of these characterizations.