Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova

Reading notes

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 3 February 1888. Moscow. §8 the publisher

  Anna Yevreinova, the jurist and publisher-editress of Severny Vestnik, to whose judgment Chekhov formally defers on the fee for "The Steppe" while privately hoping for two hundred rubles a signature.

• To M. V. Kiseleva, 25 March 1888. Moscow. §6 Evreinova

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, jurist and editress-publisher of "Severny Vestnik," which was then serializing "The Steppe"; Chekhov dined with her three times during this trip -- the opposite of his conduct toward Sysoikha earlier in the same sentence (see the note at this loc for Sysoikha).

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 31 March 1888. Moscow. §19 A. M. Evreinova

  Anna Yevreinova, jurist and editor-publisher of Severny Vestnik, here sent regards along with Pleshcheyev's household.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 14 April 1888. Moscow. §5 A. M. Evreinova

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, editor-publisher of "Severny Vestnik," whose good faith in the memorial matter Chekhov also defends.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 17 April 1888. Moscow. §6 Anna Mikhailovna's

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, editor-publisher of "Severny Vestnik," to whom Chekhov says he will send the novella he has been revising and from whom he means to ask an advance. Confirmed from context: this passage is about placing a manuscript and negotiating a publication advance, which is Yevreinova's role as the journal's editor-publisher, not a courtesy suitable to Pleshcheyev's wife. Do not confuse with the distinct entity (Alexei Pleshcheyev's actual wife, first appearing in), who shares the same first name and patronymic but has no editorial or financial role in this correspondence.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 17 April 1888. Moscow. §13 Anna Mikhailovna

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova again (see the note at loc. 6); Chekhov specifies the advance he intends to request from her -- five hundred rubles, split 250 now and 250 in June -- confirming this is a financial/editorial transaction with the journal's publisher, not a social exchange with Pleshcheyev's wife.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 5–6 October 1888. Moscow. §4 Yevreinova and the other ladies

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, jurist and editor-publisher of Severny Vestnik ("The Northern Herald"), already established in this corpus.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 5–6 October 1888. Moscow. §4 she was without a bustle, and the public made terrible fun of her for it

  SENSITIVITY: a piece of physical, mildly mocking period humor about a real named woman -- Anna Yevreinova traveling without the fashionable bustle skirt, drawing public ridicule. Translated faithfully and not softened, per the headnote; the anecdote is not sexual or otherwise requiring redaction, only period-typical sharp-tongued wit of the kind Chekhov applies liberally to friend and institution alike in this letter.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 13 November 1888. Moscow. §6 that monster Evreinova

  renders "этого монстра Евреинова" plainly and without softening. Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, jurist and the actual publisher/editor-in-chief of "Severny Vestnik" from 1885 (already established in this corpus, first appearance), here reduced by Chekhov, in evident irritation over some editorial or business decision affecting Sabashnikova, to "монстр" ("monster"/"monstrous creature"). Translated faithfully per the corpus's no-softening policy; flagged because it is a harsh, personal characterization of a real, named woman who was in fact the journal's publisher and editor-in-chief, not a passing stranger -- future apparatus/content-note work should be aware this is Chekhov venting rather than a considered assessment of Yevreinova's professional standing.

• To A. M. Yevreinova, 8 February 1889. Moscow. §3 Anna Mikhailovna, I come to you with a request

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, jurist and publisher/editor-in-chief of "Severny Vestnik", already established in this corpus (first appearance; also named in); this short business letter continues that same correspondence, here a straightforward request rather than the irritated "monster" aside of letter 3-531.

• To A. M. Yevreinova, 17 February 1889. Moscow. §3 Much-esteemed Anna Mikhailovna!

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, jurist and publisher/editor-in-chief of "Severny Vestnik", already established in this corpus (first appearance; also named in). This letter continues the same run of "Ivanov"-proofs correspondence, here an irritated but good-humored complaint about the printing house's slow delivery of proof sheets rather than a substantive editorial matter.

• To A. M. Yevreinova, 10 March 1889. Moscow. §3 Anna Mikhailovna

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, jurist and publisher-editress of "Severny Vestnik" ("The Northern Herald"); already established across this run of correspondence as the recipient of Chekhov's running honorarium and "Ivanov"-proofs business.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 3 August 1889. Yalta. §4 Anna Mikhailovna

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, jurist and editor-publisher of "Severny Vestnik" ("The Northern Herald"), to whom Chekhov owed the story that became "Skuchnaya istoriya" ("A Boring Story"), which did appear in that journal that autumn.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 3 September 1889. Sumy. §4 Anna Mikhailovna

  Identified here as Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, editor-publisher of "Severny Vestnik", on the strength of context: the sentence is specifically about permission to hold back a story promised to that journal, matching the earlier letter to Pleshcheyev of 3 August 1889, where "Анну Михайловну" appears in the identical role -- being notified about the same story's delivery to the same journal. This is distinct from the OTHER "Anna Mikhailovna" in this corpus, Pleshcheyev's own wife, who appears elsewhere in this correspondence (e.g. \S12) only in general household-regards contexts, never tied to Severny Vestnik business. The editorial-business context here makes the Yevreinova identification confident, not merely a guess carried over from the translator's flag.

• To A. M. Yevreinova, 7 September 1889. Moscow. §3 Your telegram caught me off guard, dear Anna Mikhailovna.

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova, jurist and publisher-editress of "Severny Vestnik" ("The Northern Herald"), to which Chekhov owed the still-unnamed story discussed throughout this letter; the same addressee-editor of (via Pleshcheyev as intermediary) and (direct).

• To A. M. Yevreinova, 7 November 1889. Moscow. §3 Anna Mikhailovna

  Anna Mikhailovna Yevreinova (1844-1919), jurist and editor-publisher of Severny Vestnik, one of Russia's first women to hold a law doctorate (earned abroad). An important outlet for Chekhov's work in the late 1880s; addressee of this letter.