person

Nikolai Pushkaryov

Pushkaryov

also: Пушкарев

Editor of the Moscow humor weekly Budilnik and a minor poet of the period; naming him as a favorite poet alongside himself is the narrator wry self-deprecating joke about mediocre verse.

Reading notes

To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 December 1882. Moscow. §11 Pushkaryov's
Nikolai Lukich Pushkaryov, editor of "Zritel" and a Moscow literary figure, at whose home the family saw in the New Year.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 January 1883. Moscow. §7 Pushkarev's
Nikolai Pushkaryov, editor of the humor magazine \emph{Moskva} and a fixture of Moscow's literary-bohemian social circuit; his New Year gatherings and balls recur in Chekhov's letters of this period as a family social venue.
To N. A. Leikin, 3 August 1883. Moscow. §7 Pushkaryov
Nikolai Pushkaryov, editor of the Moscow humor weekly Budilnik, at whose dacha Chekhov called to ask -- then regret asking -- for a placement in Mirskoy tolk.
To I. P. Chekhov, October 1883. Moscow. §10 Pushkaryov
Nikolai Pushkaryov, editor of the Moscow humor weekly Budilnik, here glimpsed pursuing a candle-manufacturing venture that Chekhov hopes might yield Ivan a post.
To Ye. I. Yunosheva, 1884. Moscow. §4 Pushkaryov's
Nikolai Pushkaryov, editor of the Moscow humor weekly Budilnik; Chekhov is comparing rates of pay for translation piecework across the two magazines.
To Al. P. Chekhov, July 1884. Zvenigorod. §4 Pushkaryov
Nikolai Pushkaryov, editor of the Moscow humor weekly Budilnik; Nikolai's trip to see him is criticized here as an unnecessary expense.
To N. A. Leikin, 26 November 1884. Moscow. §7 Pushkaryov
Nikolai Pushkaryov, editor of the Moscow humor weekly Budilnik; Golden was his sister-in-law, and Chekhov jokes that she can be freely disparaged in her presence.
In the American Style §2 Pushkaryov
Nikolai Pushkaryov, editor of the Moscow humor weekly Budilnik and a minor poet in his own right; naming him as a favorite poet (alongside himself) is a wink at his mediocre verse.