person

Fyodor Shekhtel

Shekhtel

also: Шехтель, Herr Shekhtel, Fyodor Osipovich Shekhtel, Franz Osipovich Shekhtel, Франц Осипович, Ф. О.

Then a young Moscow architect and stage/scenery designer moving in the same theatrical-journalistic circles as Chekhov, later famous as a leading figure of Russian Art Nouveau architecture.

Reading notes

Chaos in Rome §19 Shekhtel
Fyodor Shekhtel, then a young Moscow scenery/stage designer in Chekhov's own circle (later a celebrated Art Nouveau architect), is invoked as the (fictitious) designer of the play's opening tableau -- an in-joke naming a real acquaintance as though he had staged this parody.
Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights §16 Mr. Shekhtel
Fyodor (Franz) Shekhtel, then a young Moscow stage designer in the same theatrical-journalistic circles as Chekhov, later the leading architect of Russian Art Nouveau; here credited with designing the special-effects cannon.
To N. A. Leikin, 28 January 1886. Moscow. §6 cover of the book
Chekhov is arranging to supply Leikin's press with camera-ready cover art rather than leaving the design to the publisher's usual house illustrator: his friend Fyodor Shekhtel, then a young architect and graphic artist working mostly on decorative and applied-art commissions before his later fame as an architect, was to draw a vignette for the cover gratis, as a personal favor between friends.
To V. V. Bilibin, 1 February 1886. Moscow. §13 Schechtel
Fyodor Osipovich Shekhtel (later a leading Russian Art Nouveau architect), a close friend of the Chekhov family; here passing through St. Petersburg as Chekhov's informal "ambassador" to deliver news to Golike in person.
To N. A. Leikin, 3 February 1886. Moscow. §11 so as not to hold up the vignette-artist
The vignette-artist is Chekhov's friend Fyodor Shekhtel, who was preparing cover art for the book gratis (arranged in); the title needed to be fixed before he could finish the design.
To F. O. Shekhtel, 11–12 March 1887. Petersburg. §3 Most talented of all the architects in the world!
Chekhov's mock-grandiose salutation to Fyodor Shekhtel, then a young Moscow architect and stage designer in his circle, later renowned as a leading figure of Russian Art Nouveau.
To F. O. Shekhtel, 17 March 1887. Moscow. §2 Elegantissime!
Latin superlative, "most elegant one!" -- a mock-grandiose salutation Chekhov uses as a private joke with Shekhtel, then a fashionable young architect and designer, playing on his stylish reputation.
To the Chekhovs, 11 April 1887. Taganrog. §24 Got a letter from Schechtel
Fyodor Shekhtel, then a young Moscow architect and stage designer in Chekhov's circle, later a leading figure of Russian Art Nouveau architecture; a following letter in the manifest is addressed directly to him.
To F. O. Shekhtel, 11 April 1887. Taganrog. §2 Dearest Maestro!
Chekhov's regular joking honorific for Fyodor Shekhtel, the young architect and stage designer -- later a leading figure of Russian Art Nouveau -- who was one of his closest correspondents in the mid-1880s.
To F. O. Shekhtel, 17 May 1887. Moscow. §4 your intention to enter into lawful wedlock
Chekhov's congratulations on Fyodor Shekhtel's engagement; Shekhtel married Natalya Timofeyevna Zhegina in 1887, and this note is among the earliest surviving references to the match in Chekhov's correspondence.
To F. O. Shekhtel, 12 August 1887. Babkino. §3 Sire
A joking mock-formal address to Franz (Fyodor) Osipovich Schechtel, the architect and stage designer, one of Chekhov's closest friends and correspondents of these years; their letters are full of such invented titles and private jokes.
To F. O. Shekhtel, September 1887. Moscow. §2 Sire!
A mock-grand form of address Chekhov uses with Shekhtel elsewhere in their correspondence (see also), here opening an otherwise anxious, hurried note.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 October 1887. Moscow. §14 Shekhtel
Fyodor Shekhtel, the young architect in Chekhov's circle, reported here as newly married.
To F. O. Shekhtel, 19 April 1889. Moscow. §2 Dear Franz Osipovich
Fyodor (Franz) Osipovich Shekhtel, the architect and lifelong friend of the Chekhov family. The source's own heading uses "Ф. О." (Fyodor Osipovich) while the salutation here uses "Франц Осипович" (Franz Osipovich); both are the same person's German and Russified given-name forms and are preserved as they occur rather than silently normalized.
To F. O. Shekhtel, 18 June 1889. Sumy. §8 Franz Osipovich Schechtel
Fyodor (here given in the Germanic form "Franz") Osipovich Shekhtel, the architect and close family friend, addressee of this letter; already established elsewhere in this corpus (see the headnote) under the Russified "Fyodor Shekhtel" -- both name forms refer to the same person.
To F. O. Shekhtel, 14 December 1891. Moscow. §3 Hello, dear Franz Osipovich! What winters, what years!
Fyodor (Franz) Osipovich Shekhtel, then a young Moscow architect and stage/scenery designer who had moved in the same theatrical-journalistic circles as Chekhov since the 1880s and would later become a leading figure of Russian Art Nouveau architecture. The two had fallen out of close touch, and the letter opens with the stock Russian expression of long-time-no-see (\textit{Сколько зим, сколько лет!}, literally "how many winters, how many years!") before Chekhov turns to business.
To F. O. Shekhtel, 24 January 1892. Moscow. §3 Your High Nobility
"Ваше Высокоблагородие" -- a real imperial civil-service form of address (roughly the honorific due a mid-ranking official, several notches below "Excellency") that Chekhov mock-solemnly pins on his young architect friend Shekhtel, addressing a request about medicine and a restaurant outing in the exaggerated language of a subordinate petitioning a superior.