person
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
Shah Nasr-ed-Din
also: Наср-Эдин, Nasr-ed-Din
Ruler of Persia from 1848 to 1896, a distant potentate of the same foreign-news register as Bismarck and Osman Pasha in this letter's list.
Reading notes
- To P. Ye. and Ye. Ya. Chekhov, 20 June 1878. Taganrog. §8 Shah Nasr-ed-Din
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, ruler of Persia from 1848 to 1896, another distant potentate familiar from the same foreign-news columns as Bismarck and Osman Pasha.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 June 1887. Babkino. §4 the Shah of Persia and the Khedive of Egypt
A joking claim that Alexander's writing is read by distant foreign potentates who mark their favorite passages in pencil -- absurd flattery-as-mockery, pairing the Shah (Naser al-Din Shah Qajar) with the reigning Khedive of Egypt (Tewfik Pasha) as a stock duo of exotic rulers in period Russian comic register.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 17 October 1889. Moscow. §10 поместили мой портрет vis-à-vis с шахом персидским
A joking complaint: having been shorted on the promised cask of wine for his stories, Chekhov says the publication placated him instead by printing his portrait opposite that of the Shah of Persia (Naser al-Din Shah) -- setting up the following aside about a satirical poem on the Shah's 1889 trip to Paris and the Eiffel Tower.
- To N. M. Lintvareva, 25 October 1891. Moscow. §4 once the Persian shah
had left, it grew duller still
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, ruler of Persia 1848-1896, whose state visit to Russia in the autumn of 1891 included a stay in Moscow; Chekhov treats his departure as removing a source of public spectacle and distraction from the city, deflating a foreign potentate's visit to the register of a minor local amusement now withdrawn.