Grigory Zakharyin

Reading notes

• To Al. P. Chekhov and A. I. Khrushcheva-Sokolnikova, 3–6 February 1883. Moscow. §6 Zakharyins

  A generic plural invoking Grigory Zakharyin, the renowned Moscow clinician and professor -- used here not as a specific reference but as shorthand for the eminent, mustached medical authorities whose ranks the young Chekhov jokes he lacks the gravitas to join.

• To N. A. Leikin, 26 January 1887. Moscow. §5 Zakharyin's lecture (on syphilis of the heart)

  Grigory Zakharyin, a leading Moscow clinician and professor at Moscow University, renowned (and later controversial) for his public lectures; Chekhov, himself a practicing physician, attended as a matter of professional interest.

• To N. A. Leikin, 8 February 1887. Moscow. §8 Zakharyin

  Grigory Zakharyin, the eminent Moscow University clinician; Chekhov, himself a physician, jokes about a slimming remedy supposedly learned from him.

• To N. A. Leikin, 25 February 1887. Moskva*. §5 Zakharyin's remedy

  A comic invocation of Grigory Zakharyin, the eminent Moscow clinician, as the supposed source of a starvation "milk diet"; Chekhov, himself a physician, is joking at Leikin's expense about his complaints of a heavy stomach.

• To V. A. Tikhonov, 22 February 1892. Moscow. §5 Zakharyin

  Grigory Antonovich Zakharin/Zakharyin (1829-1897), -- the eminent Moscow University clinician and one of the most famous and highly paid physicians in Russia during Chekhov's own medical career; named here, alongside Tolstoy among writers, as Chekhov's preferred figure among physicians. This letter's translation follows the source's fuller "Захарьин" as "Zakharyin"; the corpus entity also records an earlier, more generic invocation of the same eminent clinician from.