person
Shastunov
also: Шастунов
A pseudonym Shavrova wanted to sign to her story reviewed in Chekhov's 11 January 1891 letter; he objected that it sounded like the name of a grocer's shop he recalled near the Triumphal Gates in Moscow, and reports here, ten days later, that he has dropped the matter with a shrug.
Reading notes
- To Ye. M. Shavrova, 28 January 1891. Petersburg. §6 Shastunov
The pseudonym Chekhov objected to in his 11 January letter, comparing it to the sign over a Moscow grocer's shop; here, ten days later, he reports having dropped the argument with a shrug.
- To Ye. M. Shavrova, 6 March 1891. Moscow. §6 Mr. Shastunov
The pen name Chekhov first objected to in his 11 January 1891 letter, likening it to a Moscow grocer's shop sign; here, over a month later, he has adopted it himself as a running joke, addressing Shavrova by it for the rest of the letter.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 27 May 1891. Bogimovo. §7 Shastunov
The pen name Chekhov had vetoed for Yelena Shavrova's fiction earlier in 1891 but that evidently stuck; here it denotes a story published under that byline, which Burenin has just panned. Continues the same running in-joke rather than naming a new person.