Viktor Alexandrovich Goltsev

Reading notes

• To A. N. Maslov, 29 March 1888. Moscow. §4 Goltsev

  Viktor Goltsev, the critic and journalist who effectively ran the journal's editorial side for the absent Lavrov and received Chekhov in his stead. The source transcription spells his name two different ways in this letter -- "Голь-цев" here and "Рольцев" at loc 11 -- evidently an OCR/transcription glitch on the same surname; the translation normalizes both to "Goltsev" throughout.

• To A. N. Maslov, 29 March 1888. Moscow. §11 "We will give part of the fee," said Goltsev

  Source reads "Рольцев" here, a transcription variant of the same "Гольцев"/Goltsev named at loc 4 (there spelled "Голь-цев"); normalized to "Goltsev" in translation for consistency.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 4 April 1888. Moscow. §5 Goltsev told me he had passed your story on to Sobolevsky

  Viktor Goltsev, the critic who effectively ran "Russkaya Mysl" for its absent editor Vukol Lavrov, here passing Shcheglov's story along to Vasily Sobolevsky, editor of the Moscow daily "Russkiye Vedomosti," and declining further responsibility for it.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 27 August 1888. Sumy. §8 Goltsevs

  Viktor Goltsev, the critic who ran "Russkaya Mysl" editorially for the absent Vukol Lavrov; used here in the plural ("all these Goltsevs and their like") as a byword for a whole type of self-important, narrow-minded literary editor, not naming Goltsev alone.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 27 October 1888. Moscow. §15 Many writers have been arrested, including the ubiquitous Goltsev, author of "The Ninth Symphony."

  SENSITIVITY -- preserved plainly, with no invented detail. Chekhov states only that "many writers have been arrested" (police action against journalists and literary figures under the tightened press climate of the late 1880s) and names Viktor Goltsev (already established in this corpus, e.g.) as one of them; no further detail on the arrests' grounds is given in the source and none should be added. "Author of 'The Ninth Symphony'" is very likely an ironic nickname or in-joke about Goltsev's pretentiousness (consistent with the mocking "Все эти Гольцевы" jab in) rather than a literal, attested publication -- no such work by Goltsev is identified elsewhere in the corpus, so it is flagged as unresolved wordplay, not a real title, and left without a separate work entity.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 11 March 1889. Moscow. §10 Goltsev

  Viktor Alexandrovich Goltsev, the liberal publicist and editor already established elsewhere in this corpus; named in the advertisement as a pedagogical authority, then made the target of Chekhov's sarcasm in \S12 ("the views of Goltsev and Co.").

• To V. A. Goltsev, 8 November 1889. Moscow. §3 Dear Sir,

  "Многоуважаемый" (literally "much-respected") is the standard formal Russian epistolary honorific opening a letter to a respected acquaintance who is not a close friend; rendered as the equivalent English formal opener "Dear Sir" rather than a literal calque ("Much-respected"), consistent with this being a brief, businesslike cover note to Goltsev rather than an intimate letter.

• To L. A. Avilova, 21 February 1892. Moscow. §5 Goltsev

  Viktor Alexandrovich Goltsev, the "Russkaya Mysl" editor previously encountered in the corpus (e.g.); Chekhov offers to pass Avilova's story to him.

• Notebooks. Diaries §1667 V. A. Goltsev

  Viktor Alexandrovich Goltsev (1850-1906), critic and co-editor of Russkaya Mysl, a recurring companion on Chekhov's Moscow social rounds (see \S4046).

• Notebooks. Diaries §4046 Goltsev and I

  See the note at \S1667 (the same Viktor Goltsev, here a companion at a Moscow blini gathering).