Sergei Arkadyevich Andreyevsky

Reading notes

• To A. P. Lensky, 8 December 1888. Petersburg. §7 the lawyers Andreyevsky and Prince Urusov

  Almost certainly Sergei Arkadyevich Andreyevsky (1847-1918), the prominent Petersburg criminal-defense lawyer and literary critic, frequently paired with Prince A. I. Urusov in accounts of Petersburg literary-legal society. Not previously established as a corpus entity; a new entity was created for this letter.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 28 December 1888. Moscow. §9 The path of corrections is a dangerous path (as Andreyevsky would put it).

  PROBABLE, NOT CERTAIN -- most plausibly Sergei Arkadyevich Andreyevsky, the Petersburg lawyer and literary critic already established in this corpus (first appearance) and known for aphoristic turns of phrase, fitting the letter's invocation of him for a pithy saying. The letter itself supplies no further identifying detail, so this identification, while likely, should be treated as probable rather than certain in any downstream use.

• To S. A. Andreyevsky, 25 December 1891. Moscow. § S. A. Andreyevsky

  The letter's addressee, Sergei Arkadyevich Andreyevsky (1847-1918), the celebrated Petersburg criminal-defense lawyer, poet, and literary critic, first attested at as one of the "implacable dialecticians" Chekhov expected to face debating a story at the Literary Society. This is the first letter TO Andreyevsky in the corpus's translated correspondence: he is addressed throughout only as "Вы"/"you" and never named in the body text, having evidently written first to press Chekhov -- somewhat touchily, per \S3 -- for his opinion of his books (Andreyevsky's collected verse and his published courtroom speeches, discussed at \S4 and \S6).